Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Charity more gratuitous when doled out via friends | Business Standard

Charity more gratuitous when doled out via friends | Business Standard: People are much happier when they make a donation to someone they know or in a way that builds social connection, according to a study.

Lara Aknin of Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA, examined when the emotional benefits of giving to charity become manifest.

Nonprofits Offered Guidance on Ways to Engage Constituents

massnonprofit.org ::: From Input to Ownership: How Nonprofits Can Engage with the People They Serve to Carry Out Their Mission, issued by The Bridgespan Group, a Boston-based nonprofit advisor to nonprofits, noted that “for many social sector organizations, particularly those not founded and led by the people the organization is trying to benefit, constituent engagement is a challenge.”

Boomers at top in charitable giving � Philanthropy North Carolina

Boomers at top in charitable giving � Philanthropy North Carolina: Seventy-two percent of Boomers, or 51 million donors ages 49 to 67 in 2013, give to charity, supporting 4.5 charities on average and making an annual gift that averages $1,212, says the study, Next Generation of American Giving.

The study, commissioned by Blackbaud and based on an online survey of 1,014 U.S. donors conducted by Edge Research, also found that while most Americans give, overall giving remains flat.