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But Fundraising Costs More in Recession WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite the poor economy, U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health care fundraising showed signs of progress last year, but far from enough to erase two years of recessionary losses and cutbacks, according to members of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), who direct development efforts for more than 2,000 nonprofit hospitals and health care providers throughout North America. While the vast majority (71 percent) of AHP members who answered a January survey reported negative effects on their programs in 2010 due to the recession, these responses represented a 16 percent improvement over 2009.

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cuts in charitable tax deductions proposed by both the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission and President Obama's 2012 budget, and uncertainty over implementation of so-called "Obamacare" could severely limit the ability of nonprofit health care institutions to raise donations to support free services for the poor and pay for new equipment and facilities, warns a new national survey by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Snapshots of charitable support in 2009 have produced two very different pictures for nonprofit health care institutions in the United States and Canada, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).