The results of the new Money for Good report will surprise you. The Money for Good initiative seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the behaviors, attitudes, and motivations of affluent Americans with respect to impact investing, charitable giving, and international entrepreneurship. Focus groups and an online survey (Hope Consulting conducted the research) tapped the [...]
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 [...]
As a nonprofit executive or fundraiser, every conference you’ve attended in the last two to three years has undoubtedly included sessions on social media, web 2.0, or fundraising via your website or email appeals. In these sessions you have been encouraged to establish an online presence for your organization as part of a comprehensive communication [...]
Like many of you, I have been following the news of the offshore oil gusher in the Gulf with alarm, sadness, anger, and a sense of hopelessness. This past weekend I was sent the below email from The Nature Conservancy (TNC). It’s a fantastic example of strong, targeted donor communication. I am a TNC member, affiliated [...]
On March 22, the Nonprofit Finance Fund released a survey of more than 1,300 nonprofit leaders in markets nationwide, finding that nonprofits expect 2010 to be an increasingly challenging year as the economic recovery has not yet reached people in need or the organizations that serve them. Key findings from the survey include: Nearly 90 [...]
Hot off the presses, Convio’s latest study on giving trends among different generations. The most significant element of this study? Why people give. Across the board, personal asks carry the greatest success – but what about those dusty direct mail letters or text-to-give numbers that seems to be everywhere? You’ll have to read to find out, and when [...]
My family has been farming in the United States for nearly 200 years – but the last few decades seem to have taken a devastating toll on the American farmer. In my hometown, once-valuable farmland gave way to the blight of sprawl development – even worse is that the recent economic downturn has made bankruptcy [...]
A recent study by the American Association of Museums has found that attendance increased at museums nationwide during the past year, despite a drop in funding. Science centers and natural history museums saw the most gains in attendance, as did institutions in the Midwest and West. Factors cited for the increase include new programming as [...]
According to a new report on 2009 giving by Convio, a fundraising software firm, more than $284 million was donated online in major cities across the U.S., up from almost $240 million in 2008. The report ranked 273 large cities with total population of more than 100,000 based on per capita online giving and on [...]
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