News/Stats/Studies
January 20, 2012
The Rollins family’s ongoing generosity to Emory University continued with a recent $15 million gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation of Atlanta.
The money will be used to build the second phase of the school’s new building program, Emory said.
“This gift allows Candler to provide state-of-the-art library and teaching facilities that are critical to fulfilling our mission of preparing faithful and creative leaders for the church’s ministries in the world,” said Jan Love, dean of Candler School of Theology, in a statement.
January 19, 2012
Advocacy by 110 nonprofit organizations over a five-year period has brought more than $26.6 billion in benefits to low-wage workers, communities of color, rural residents and other marginalized groups, according to a new study from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
The report, titled "Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Benefits by Funding Policy and Community Engagement," found that every dollar grantmakers and other donors invested in policy and civic engagement provided a return of $115 in benefit.
January 19, 2012
Blackbaud announced that fundraising has returned to pre-recession levels. Through the first 11 months of 2011, overall giving is up 3.4 percent over 2010, and is now officially above the level of giving last seen in 2007.
Chuck Longfield, Blackbaud's chief scientist and creator of The Blackbaud Index, noted that while giving is up, the increase is not uniform across all sub-sectors. However, most nonprofits saw greater stability and predictability in their 2011 fundraising than in the past few years.
January 18, 2012
W.K. Kellogg Foundation released a new report, “Cultures of Giving: Energizing and Expanding Philanthropy by and for Communities of Color” with support from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. This new report shows how the face of philanthropy is changing rapidly to become as ethnically, culturally and socioeconomically diverse as our country’s population, with some of the most significant growth stemming from identity-based philanthropy — a growing movement to spark philanthropic giving from a community on behalf of a community, where “community” is defined by race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
January 18, 2012
Despite continued economic woes, a majority of the nation's millionaires aren't cinching their purse strings when it comes to charitable giving.
Fifty-nine percent of millionaires agree they feel they have an obligation to give back to their community, according to a survey released Jan. 17 by PNC Wealth Management . The percentage remains the same as it was in 2008.
The study also revealed that 21 percent plan of these wealthy donors plan to increase their giving, while 22 percent of millionaires plan on cutting back the amount they give to charity. Forty-six percent plan no change.
January 18, 2012
A late surge of contributions in the last weeks of 2011 has made many charities hopeful of continued fundraising growth this year. But the picture is mixed.
A Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of 153 charities found that 55 percent raised more last year than in 2010, while one-third took in less and 12 percent stayed even. What worries many organizations is that nearly 40 percent of nonprofits say contributions have not bounced back to the amount they raised before the recession started in 2007.
January 17, 2012
Ted Hart speaks speaks with Rob Mitchell, CEO of Atlas of Giving and Philanthromax, for the official public release of the Atlas of Giving 2011 Annual Giving Data Report and the 2012 Forecast of Giving on his Nonprofit Coach radio show.
January 16, 2012
To help nonprofit employers better understand their employees’ engagement, Opportunity Knocks, the national nonprofit job board and HR resource, conducted a landmark national study and released the OK Research project, Engaging the Nonprofit Workforce: Mission, Management and Emotion.
This report is the only of its kind on employee engagement specifically focused on the nonprofit sector. The goal of this project is to better understand the ways in which nonprofit employees are engaged and the impact of employee engagement and disengagement upon employees, nonprofit organizations and communities.
January 16, 2012
FundRaising Success is proud to announce the members of its 2012 Editorial Advisory Board.
January 13, 2012
In recognition of Ernst & Young’s more than 8,000 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award® winners and the organization’s commitment to support future market leaders everywhere, Ernst & Young LLP has established the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Alumni Fund to reward top Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) students with college scholarships as well as aid NFTE’s Adopt-a-Class initiative. This fund represents a $300,000 commitment toward matching donations by Ernst & Young LLP partners and Entrepreneur Of The Year alumni over the next three years.
