May 16, 2012


Top Stories

  • Nonprofits are making greater use of social media, with Facebook reaching ‘saturation levels,’ a new report says.
    May 14, 2012
  • 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.
    May 3, 2012
  • 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.
    April 30, 2012
  • 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.
    April 25, 2012
  • 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.
    April 23, 2012
  • 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.
    April 18, 2012
  • Community giving and participation are essential for social progress and global development, and can generate increased local ownership and local accountability, new report says.
    April 16, 2012
  • 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.
    April 11, 2012
  • 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.
    April 9, 2012
  • An hour of volunteering was worth $21.79 in 2011, up 43 cents from 2010, a new estimate says.
    April 6, 2012

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