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Small business: Choosing charities

Giving at the end of the year can

Photo credit: iStock | Giving at the end of the year can have holiday feeling or it can be a good business decision. (November 2009)

Jamie Herzlich

Newsday columnist Jamie Herzlich Jamie Herzlich

Herzlich writes the Small Business column in Newsday.

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As the year-end approaches, many companies will be looking at ways to maximize  charitable contributions.

This year, there's much less to go around, with major charities anticipating a 9 percent drop in 2009 donations, according to a survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, D.C. This would represent the steepest decline in the survey's 17-year history.

That means businesses...

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