Last week, Julie and I joined about 75 nonprofit professionals at an NDOA event for a recap of last year’s Seattle Foundation GiveBIG event on June 23rd, and received a sneak preview of GiveBIG 2012. In case you missed it, GiveBIG was a city-wide day of philanthropy last June where people were asked to donate [...]
Vanguard Charitable has released information about its 2010 donor advised fund activity that indicates strong growth despite a 9 percent decrease in total contributions: The number of grants made to charities through their donor advised funds grew by 50 percent The average grant award increased by 35 percent The fund saw a 77 percent increase [...]
A number of emerging trends are converging, and the result will likely be a “tipping point” in how we view the impact of philanthropy in our Northwest region, across the country, and globally. This past week’s headlines are pointing to this pending sea change. Like any movement, the change didn’t start this week with the [...]
Giving USA 2010: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2009 was released this morning. The report details giving trends over the last year and analyzes those results with information from the last couple decades. For the third year in a row, giving exceeded $300 billion even though overall giving declined 3.6 percent in [...]
Did you see the Puget Sound Business Journal’s story “Washington State Foundations Suggest Changing Nonprofit Funding Methods”? If you haven’t read it, you should. Click the link below and you can read the story on Philanthropy Northwest’s blog — and while you’re there, check out some of their other great posts. http://services.philanthropynw.org/blog/?p=1644
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