Women Donors--Stereotypes Uprooted

Women Donors: Stereotypes Uprooted

FS Advisor: March 28, 2006

By Abny Santicola, editor, FundRaising Success Advisor

Throw away the old stereotypes you’ve heard about women donors -- that they give less than men or aren’t willing to part with their money at all. The characteristics of women donors are changing, says Donna P. Hall, executive director of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Women Donors Network, a national organization of progressive women philanthropists who give at least $25,000 a year to charity.