"More than 50 percent of our funding comes from government funding, primarily the U.S. and Canada, with the balance coming from private foundations, corporations and individuals. Believe it or not, individual giving is currently less than 2 percent of our overall giving, so we have identified this as a huge growth potential for the organization. HKI is evolving from an organization that had been entrepreneurial in terms of its approach to fundraising where much of that work was done in the field, to a more centralized approach with a dedicated development team based at our headquarters that includes a team focused on building our unrestricted resources to support the infrastructure needed to keep up with our growth."
Dane Grams is the director of membership for Human Rights Campaign. He has held senior positions at Amnesty International, Greenpeace USA and Care2. Reach him at dane.grams@hrc.org.Â