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Pretty much every charity in Silicon Valley wants to “friend” Facebook and its workers as the company gets ready to go public on Friday. As Facebook’s executives and employees await a life-changing windfall from its initial public stock offering, expected to set the company’s worth at a record-breaking $100-billion, the company itself is coming under [...]
The total that charities raised online jumped 19 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year, and the number of Internet gifts they received climbed 20 percent, according to a new study that analyzes online fundraising and advocacy at 44 national charities. The 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study was published by M+R Strategic Services, a fundraising [...]
Foundations don’t base their grants decisions on the diversity of the grantee, said a panel of experts at the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ annual meeting in Vancouver—but a growing number are seeking to ensure that their own staffing and operations are multicultural and trying to figure out other steps to better serve all parts of [...]
Environmental funders are spending too little money on advocacy work to protect low-income areas and communities of color from environmental degradation, a new report says. From 2007 to 2009, only 15 percent of environmental grant dollars were classified as benefiting “marginalized” communities, and only 11 percent were classified as advancing “social-justice” strategies, a “proxy for policy advocacy [...]
Americans want their voices heard when it comes to issues about which they are passionate. Online advocacy actions grew at a solid 17 percent clip from 2010 to 2011, according to The Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Index™ Study. The fastest growing sectors, each at more than 29 percent, are: Animal Welfare, Environment & Wildlife [...]
Seven in 10 nonprofits expect their donations to increase this year, after 2011 became the first year since the recession started that a majority of nonprofits reported an increase in the amount they raised. Still, the recovery is uneven, according a report of 1,600 nonprofit released today. Thirty-one percent, mostly small organizations, said contributions dropped in 2011, [...]
Most Americans appear to be shaking off some of the post-recession gloom and say they will either give the same amount or more to charity this year as they did in 2011, a new survey says. Sixty-eight percent of the 1,000 people who participated in a January phone survey say they will donate the same amount, [...]
How much can top fundraisers expert to earn? At least one fundraiser is paid well over $1-million a year: Anne McSweeney, who is leading a big capital campaign at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was paid more than $1.4-million in 2010, according to her organization’s latest Form 990. Richard Naum, the next highest-paid fundraiser at the [...]
Giving to the nation’s colleges and universities rose 8.2 percent in 2011, to $30.3 billion, or $1.3 million less than the highest amount — $31.6 billion in 2009 — ever captured in the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey, a new report from the Council for Aid to Education finds. Adjusted for inflation, giving to [...]
According to a new report from the New York City-based Foundation Center, American family foundations contributed more than $20 billion in 2010 to organizations and people working for the public good. Issued annually, the latest installment of Key Facts on Family Foundations reported a 1.1 percent increase in family foundation giving between 2009 and 2010, a reversal [...]
