Health Causes Appeal to Aussie Donors - Charity Index | Pro Bono Australia

Health Causes Appeal to Aussie Donors - Charity Index | Pro Bono Australia: The overall amount donated to charity by Australians grew by 2.6% in the year to February 2013 with health causes pulling hardest at donors heartstrings, according to the National Australia Bank’s Charitable Giving Index.

Philanthropy Study: Major Gifts Mostly Local - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick

Philanthropy Study: Major Gifts Mostly Local - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick: NDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - For donors and charities, there's no place like home when it comes to very large gifts, according to a new study of publicly announced gifts of $1 million or more released today by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Study details two types of nonprofits - News - The Times-Tribune

Study details two types of nonprofits - News - The Times-Tribune: HARRISBURG - Nearly half of the nonprofit organizations getting state aid to provide human services in Pennsylvania keep compensation for top employees below a $100,000 annual threshold, but that's not always the case for nonprofit hospitals, according to a legislative study released Tuesday.

The study by the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee highlights some wide disparities for levels of executive compensation and size of assets between community organizations and general acute care hospitals, both of which can be classified as nonprofits under state law.

Christianity Today Gleanings: More Evangelicals Donate Money Than 'Born-Again' Christians

Christianity Today Gleanings: More Evangelicals Donate Money Than 'Born-Again' Christians: According to Barna, its research shows that more than 3 in 4 evangelical Christians (79 percent) contributed money to a charity or church last year. Meanwhile, only 1 percent of all evangelicals reported making no charitable contribution at all—much less than the national average (13 percent reported no giving) and the average for non-Christian faiths (27 percent reported no giving).

Nonprofit Finance Fund | Where Money Meets Mission

Nonprofit Finance Fund | Where Money Meets Mission: In this year’s survey, nearly 6000 respondents from nonprofits across the country shared the details of how they are adapting their organizations and finances to economic conditions. The survey, which was supported for the third year in a row by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, reveals that 2012 was a year in which organizations either made or planned to make significant changes in order to cope with mounting economic stress. As NFF CEO Antony Bugg-Levine put it, “Nonprofits are changing the way they do business because they have to: government funding is not returning to pre-recession levels, philanthropic dollars are limited, and demand for critical services has climbed dramatically. At the same time, 56 percent of nonprofits plan to increase the number of people served. That goal requires systemic change and innovation– both within the sector, and more broadly as a society that values justice, progress and economic opportunity.”