News/Stats/Studies
July 11, 2011
The U.K.’s 500 largest fundraising charities suffered about a $111.6 million real-terms fall in fundraising income to about $9.7 billion in 2009/10, according to research published last week.
The 1.1 percent decline marks the second successive year that fundraising income has fallen in real terms, according to Charity Market Monitor 2011.
The report, produced by Cass Business School and Caritas Data, looked at figures from charities’ accounts covering the year up to March 2010, which varied according to when the organisations set their financial year.
July 11, 2011
Sage North America announced the results of its recently conducted Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q2 2011, survey of U.S. and Canadian organizations, which focused on questions about nonprofits’ views and practices related to grant funding and success measures.
About half of the organizations responding to the survey (52%) said grantors are demanding more success measures than two years ago. According to the survey, grantors most often request information about the following types of success measures: financial accountability/stewardship (81%); number of constituents served (77%); program quality from a participant perspective (57%); program sustainability (57%).
June 30, 2011
Donations by wealthy individuals has significantly increased private giving by at least 50 percent since 2006 as a percentage of GDP to approximately $5 billion to $6 billion in India in 2010, says a study.
"The future of giving is poised to rise further, as the rich population in India grows and as the philanthropic system becomes more advanced," the study, "India Philanthropy Report 2011," by Bain & Co. said. The report also finds that 40 percent of wealthy individuals in India plan to increase philanthropic donations over the next five years.
June 29, 2011
Daring to Lead 2011, a new national study of nonprofit executive directors conducted in the aftermath of the deepest economic recession in decades, reports that a significant number of executives plan to leave their jobs within the next five years, citing frustration with their organizations’ shaky finances, under-performing boards of directors, and the difficulty of maintaining healthy work-life balance in their demanding roles.
The study was conducted by San Francisco-based CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and the Meyer Foundation in Washington, D.C.
June 24, 2011
About 80 percent of Jews age 18 to 35 have engaged in volunteer work during the past year, but by and large their volunteerism has been infrequent and not related to their faith, according to a new study.
The study, commissioned by Repair the World, which works to promote volunteerism among Jews, surveyed roughly 1,000 young Jews last fall and is believed to be the first in-depth look at volunteerism within a faith group, according to Jon Rosenberg, Repair the World’s CEO. Many of the findings apply to any religious group, he says.
June 22, 2011
Forty-four percent of Europeans contribute money or time annually to charity, with religion and a personal philosophy of helping others cited most often as the reasons for giving, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites a new poll.
The Dutch are the most generous Europeans, with 77 percent giving annually, according to a survey of more than 17,000 people in 14 European countries by GfK CR Academy Brussels. Turkey ranked last at 9 percent.
June 21, 2011
The number of donors recruited by members of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association through face-to-face fundraising rose by more than 100,000 in 2010/11, according to figures released in advance of its annual general meeting.
The figures show that 730,269 people signed up as donors to PFRA member organizations during the year, compared with 624,951 in 2009/10. It is the second-highest level of sign-ups in the PFRA’s 10-year history, behind the 740,670 recorded in 2008/09.
June 20, 2011
Here are some key findings from the 2011 Giving USA Report unveiled June 20, 2011.
June 20, 2011
As many economic signs point to a slowing recovery, donors continued to hold tight to their wallets last year, increasing their contributions by slightly more than 2 percent after inflation, suggests Giving USA, the annual tally of charitable giving in America.
The small increase is hardly enough to help organizations out of the giant hole in donations created by the recession. “Giving USA” noted that the previous two years showed the steepest drop in giving ever recorded in the report’s five decades — a decline of 7 percent in 2008 and 6.2 percent in 2009.
June 17, 2011
The increasing pressure on America’s nonprofit community clinics and health centers was documented in a report, "State of the Safety Net," released by Direct Relief International summarizing the most extensive data assembled on safety net providers who care for the country’s most vulnerable people.
Nonprofit health clinics are struggling to meet overwhelming demand from new patients who have lost jobs and health insurance.
The report summarizes national information about the activities at America’s nonprofit community-based clinics and health centers from 2006 to 2009.
