For the second year in a row, employee giving topped $100 million and was the highest ever. In fact, in 2012, employees raised $105 million for nearly 19,000 nonprofit organizations through individual donations, volunteer efforts, and company-wide fundraising activities.

With the House of Representatives set to hold hearings Thursday on the future of the charitable tax deduction, Americans say they strongly oppose capping or cutting the deduction to help solve the debt crisis facing the country, according to a Dunham+Company national study conducted by Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research.

Help Hospitalized Veterans, the largest organization distributing free arts and crafts kits to veteran and military medical patients, provides a unique service to both donors and beneficiaries-a thank-you postcard.