Report names top drivers of healthcare fundraising

Escalating globalization, the growing economic importance of small businesses, and the need to develop innovative sources of funding will be the top drivers for supporting the future of healthcare fundraising, says a new study. The emerging trends study was released Monday by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), a not-for-profit organization whose more than 4,700 members direct philanthropic programs in 2,000 of North America's not-for-profit health care providers.
Full text article by Molly Merrill is available via Healthcare Finance News, 3/2/10.

Healthcare Donors Switching to Long-Term Giving Strategies

Businesses and individuals hit hard by the economic downturn shifted their charitable giving strategies to longer-term pledges and gift commitments rather than forgo giving altogether, a new report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy finds. Mouli Cohen, philanthropist and technology entrepreneur, was asked for his opinion on this week’s developments.

Full text article by Mouli Cohen is available via PRWeb, 1/13/10.

Recession Leaves Its Mark on Hospital Fund Raising

In a sign of how the recession is changing giving patterns. hospitals say more donors are making long-term pledges and fewer are making outright cash gifts, according to a new survey of 58 hospitals conducted by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.

Full text article by Holly Hall is available via The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 12/28/09.

Hire More Fundraising Rain-Makers During Recession, AHP Study Concludes

As the recession's grip tightened on nonprofit hospitals and health care systems in the U.S. and Canada, high performing philanthropic fundraisers in charge of major gifts and planned giving programs were often their most effective and efficient rain-makers, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

Full-text press release is available via PRNewswire, 5.14.09.

Stimulus Package Could Affect Healthcare Fundraising

The House stimulus package, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1), which passed in the House on January 29 and is now in review with the Senate (S. 1), contains language that removes fundraising from the definition of health care operations. If this passes, the result will be that Association for Healthcare Philanthropy members will no longer have access to grateful patient names and addresses.

H.R. 1 Section 4406(b) and its companion language in section 13046(b) of the Senate substitute would effectively deny the development offices of not-for-profit hospitals and health care providers access to names and addresses of patients in their own institutions - information that is protected and used for the sole purpose of philanthropic outreach. AHP is working with key contacts in the Senate to remove this language from the Stimulus Bill.

More information is available via AHP's website.

2007 AHP Report on Giving

The growth of philanthropic giving for health care in the United States fell by more than half in 2007 from 2006, while the Canadian rate of growth in donations to health care nearly tripled, according to the FY2007 AHP Report on Giving.

More information is available via the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy's website.

Flagging Donations - Risky for Health Care

Dwindling donations caused by the lagging economy could deal a serious blow to the nonprofit health-care sector, says a study released by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

"In tight economic times, fundraisers will have to better benchmark their data and strategies, as nonprofits convince donors, board members, hospital leaders and the public that they are accountable for the gifts they receive," Lisa Hillman, chair of the board of directors for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, says in a statement.

Full-text press release and study are available via AHP.