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Nonprofits are making greater use of social media, with Facebook reaching ‘saturation levels,’ a new report says.

Retaining participants in fundraising events is tough and requires long-term engagement and cultivation, while getting people to participate and raise money through events requires effective communication, two new reports say.

Global philanthropy, remittances and private capital investment grew to $575 billion in 2010, up from $455 billion a year earlier, and accounted for 82 percent of the developed world’s economic dealings with developing countries, a new report says.

Higher-education fundraising in 2011 generally improved from 2010, according to key performance metrics, with revenue generally growing but donors declining in the wake of the recession, a new report says.

A bigger share of churches in the U.S. saw giving grow in 2011 after plunging in the wake of the economic collapse in 2008, while a smaller share saw giving decline, with bigger churches more likely to see increases, a new survey says.

More organizations throughout the world are getting grants from more foundation for water-related projects, yet foundation funding for those projects still represents only a tiny share of all international grantmaking, a new research brief says.

Community giving and participation are essential for social progress and global development, and can generate increased local ownership and local accountability, new report says.

Grantmakers that make it their business to understand and connect with nonprofits they fund are more likely to provide the kind of support nonprofits need to succeed, a new study says.

Online giving, excluding donations for disaster relief, grew 17 percent in 2011 to $138 million from the previous year for all 1.6 million donations processed by Network for Good for over 40,000 charities, a new report says.

An hour of volunteering was worth $21.79 in 2011, up 43 cents from 2010, a new estimate says.