Mass. Nonprofit Employment Outpaces Overall Job Growth

massnonprofit news ::: "May 10, 2016 — Nonprofit employment in Massachusetts has grown by nearly 5.6% during the last three years, according to a report released today, outpacing overall employment growth and continuing a trend stretching back to the start of the millennium.

Total nonprofit employment reached 529,538 at the end of 2015, according to numbers issued by the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN), the state's nonprofit trade association, up 5.57% from the end of 2012. There are about 34,000 nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts.

In comparison, total employment in the Bay State rose 3.99% during the same period, from 3,257,067 to 3,387,000."



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Florida Female Nonprofit Execs Earn Less Than Male Counterparts

Florida Female Nonprofit Execs Earn Less Than Male Counterparts: "Almost 70 percent of the people who run Northeast Florida nonprofits -- and most of their employees -- are women.

But the men who hold the top positions at nonprofits tend to receive bigger salaries than their female counterparts and the pay gap widens as the male-led organizations grow, according to a new report from the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida."



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Why Do the Ultra Wealthy Give? | Wealth-X

Why Do the Ultra Wealthy Give? | Wealth-X:



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Value of Volunteer Time | Independent Sector

Value of Volunteer Time | Independent Sector:



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Corporate Philanthropy: Ally or Competitor? - NonProfit PRO

Corporate Philanthropy: Ally or Competitor? - NonProfit PRO: "In other words, corporations have figured out that they don’t necessarily need to partner with nonprofits to meet social responsibility goals. The stats bear this out. According to Giving in Numbers 2014, the number of companies providing pro bono service programs increased from 40 percent in 2012 to 51 percent in 2014. Ellinger cited AT&T’s “It Can Wait” distracted-driving campaign as an example. “They are doing many things a nonprofit would normally do—collecting petition signatures and pledges, distributing awareness materials, and providing programmatic tool-kits—without the nonprofit,” he explained."



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Atlas of Giving Forecast: Charitable Giving Decline in 2016 - Top Nonprofits

Atlas of Giving Forecast: Charitable Giving Decline in 2016 - Top Nonprofits: "For fundraisers, it always helps to start a new year at full speed.

 

Instead, donors have moved into 2016 by hitting the brakes.

 

Our just-released Atlas of Giving forecast predicts a charitable giving decline in 2016. The downturn is already underway, with giving through February down 1.4% compared to the same period in 2015.

 

These early results were driven in large part by January giving numbers, which recorded the first monthly decline since the nation’s deep recession ended in June 2009. January’s decrease of 0.6% from December snapped a 63-month streak during which giving consistently rose on a monthly basis as the country experienced economic recovery."



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New York Community Trust - Philamplify

New York Community Trust - Philamplify: "New York Community Trust - How Can This Equity Funder Rally Donors And Deepen Grassroots Engagement to Further Its Impact?"



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The AFP Blog: The (Non)Impact of Political Campaigns on Charitable Fundraising

The AFP Blog: The (Non)Impact of Political Campaigns on Charitable Fundraising: "The (Non)Impact of Political Campaigns on Charitable Fundraising
Some great new research came out last week from Blackbaud about how political giving impacts nonprofit support.

I was pleased to be able to write the forward for the report, which you can find here, but the findings bear repeating.

Using data from the 2012 presidential campaigns, the research found that political donors tracked by the Federal Election Commission gave more to charities in 2012 than they did in 2011."



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Why Do the Ultra Wealthy Give? | Wealth-X

Why Do the Ultra Wealthy Give? | Wealth-X: "What motivates the ultra wealthy to give?
 
Wealth-X conducted an Attitudes Survey in conjunction with Knight Frank to gain insights into the perspectives and behaviors of the ultra wealthy around wealth management, philanthropy, wealth transfer and more. The survey was based on the views of around 400 of the world’s leading private bankers and wealth advisors who, between them, manage assets for about 45,000 ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals with a combined wealth of over US$500 billion."



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Jewish people more likely to give to charity than rest of population, says report | Third Sector

Jewish people more likely to give to charity than rest of population, says report | Third Sector: "According to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 93 per cent of Jews make at least one donation a year, compared with 57 of non-Jewish adults"



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Survey: Online Fundraising May Diminish Effectiveness of Supporter Communications | Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports

Survey: Online Fundraising May Diminish Effectiveness of Supporter Communications | Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports: "A small survey of 114 leaders of nonprofits with budgets between $100,000 and $200,000 finds that 43 percent of respondents view online fundraising as only “somewhat effective” relative to traditional direct mail, and 35 percent say it is “not particularly effective.” Only three percent see it as “highly effective,” even given the cost considerations.

While the survey is very small, those findings are fairly stark and may serve at least as anecdotal evidence to which we need to pay attention. The accounting firm Marks Paneth, which presumably has no dog directly in the fundraising game, conducted this Nonprofit Pulse survey. Respondents included executive directors, CFOs, treasurers, COOs, development directors, vice presidents and board members."



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One quarter of people uncharitable, says survey | UK Fundraising

One quarter of people uncharitable, says survey | UK Fundraising: "A quarter of people in the UK do not consider themselves to be charitable, and only one in ten gives to the homeless, according to a survey by Vouchercloud.

Vouchercloud.com questioned over 2,000 UK adults on how charitable they were: more than half of respondents (51%) agreed that they thought they were, while a quarter (25%) answered ‘sometimes’ and the remaining 24% stated that they did not think they were charitable people."



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Diversity, inclusion enticing fundraisers to stay - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Diversity, inclusion enticing fundraisers to stay - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: "Perhaps the most significant barrier to fostering diversity and inclusion in the charitable giving sector is the lack of information on the number of people from diverse communities who currently identify as fundraising practitioners. But, those found claim to be in it for the longer haul.

The issue of a diversity and inclusion census is one of the key items in the new “Diversity and Inclusion Survey Report,” which follows an October survey designed by the AFP Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the AFP Research Council."



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Live From AFP: Donors Prove It’s All About Them - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Live From AFP: Donors Prove It’s All About Them - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: "Passion about the cause was the top reason for giving in every age group except matures where they like being depended on more than being passionate about the cause. There was an as much as 29 percent difference between the age groups when it came to wanting to be depended on.

These are some of the results from the 2016 Donor Loyalty Study released during the annual Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) conference in Boston by software firm Abila. They surveyed during February 1,136 donors in the United States who said that they made at least one donation during the previous 12 months."



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Understanding families – How can charities engage with parents and their children? | nfpSynergy

Understanding families – How can charities engage with parents and their children? | nfpSynergy: "ur findings have revealed some interesting dynamics within the family unit, underscoring why the family is such a valuable audience for many charities. In this blog, I’ll take you through a few of the things we’ve learned.

 

Families like to share their enthusiasm for charities

In the past we’ve talked a lot about ‘pester power’ – the influence children exert on their parents to support charities. Now that we can link the responses of children to their parents (and vice versa), we can see that this influence goes both ways in the family."



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The Mobile Frontier: Create Frictionless Content and Help Members Engage

The Mobile Frontier: Create Frictionless Content and Help Members Engage: "Engagement -- it’s that golden word everyone talks about and one important sign of a healthy community. Part of creating member engagement -- discussions, content creation, connections -- is removing all the barriers you can. For optimal engagement, it’s important that there’s as little friction as possible, which isn’t as hard as you’d think.

Beyond being a buzzword and a broad concept, engagement does actually affect your community’s bottom line. In our 2015 Community Benchmarking Report we looked at data from 80 organizations with online communities, and compared those overall averages and medians from MGI’s 2015 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report."



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Can Big Nonprofits Get Big Results? | Stanford Social Innovation Review

Can Big Nonprofits Get Big Results? | Stanford Social Innovation Review: "Our study of more than a score of longstanding networks showed that it takes courageous leaders to pause in the midst of doing good and ask: Can we do even better? And it takes compelling demographic and performance data to convince a far-flung staff that the good they are doing today may not be life-changing for individuals and communities at the heart of their mission. Yet some of these venerable organizations are doing just that and altering course, shifting from serving immediate needs to solving underlying problems, thanks to their willingness to act on data that show their constituents’ needs have, indeed, changed."



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The Generational Echo: ’60s Kids Causing New “Boom” in Nonprofits | Nonprofit Quarterly

The Generational Echo: ’60s Kids Causing New “Boom” in Nonprofits | Nonprofit Quarterly: "A 2015 study published by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in partnership with consulting group Age Wave specifically credits baby boomers with donating $8 trillion ($6.6 trillion in cash and $1.4 trillion in volunteer hours) over the course of the next two decades, a pleasantly astonishing figure the Nonprofit Quarterly wrote about soon after the study was released last October. However, that yearning to support a wide array of causes doesn’t just stop at dollar signs and pro bono labor. Boomers are also embarking on second wave careers as founders of their own nonprofit organizations, post-retirement. Data shows that interest among individuals between the age of 50 and 70 in building a nonprofit from the ground up has nearly doubled since 2012."



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Dunham+Company Survey Indicates Charitable Giving Won’t Be Affected By Presidential Election Year | Dunham+Company | fundraising research

Dunham+Company Survey Indicates Charitable Giving Won’t Be Affected By Presidential Election Year | Dunham+Company | fundraising research:



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Dunham+Company Survey Indicates Charitable Giving Won’t Be Affected By Presidential Election Year | Dunham+Company | fundraising research

Dunham+Company Survey Indicates Charitable Giving Won’t Be Affected By Presidential Election Year | Dunham+Company | fundraising research:



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Arizona State University study: Arizona nonprofits contribute $22B to state economy, bolstered by health care sector - Phoenix Business Journal

Arizona State University study: Arizona nonprofits contribute $22B to state economy, bolstered by health care sector - Phoenix Business Journal: "A new study by the L. William Seidman Research Institute at ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business found that not only do Arizona's nonprofits contribute a considerable amount of money to the state, but that the majority of those funds come from health care organizations as well.
"Arizona Nonprofits: Economic Power, Positive Impact," which will be released in early March at aznonprofitimpact.org, f"



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Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups | infoDev

Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups | infoDev: "A new report, Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups, captures lessons learned from East African entrepreneurs who were among the earliest adopters of crowdfunding in the developing world."



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The AFP Blog: The Research is Clear: Invest in Donor Retention and Cultivation

The AFP Blog: The Research is Clear: Invest in Donor Retention and Cultivation: "The Research is Clear: Invest in Donor Retention and Cultivation
There’s more great research out now from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, delving deeper into statistics on donor retention.

The data in the new FEP supplement points to an inescapable fact: we have to focus on donor cultivation and major gifts. An ever-increasing proportion of fundraising revenue is coming from an increasingly smaller pool of donors. And as the FEP data shows, we’re not necessarily talking “major” donors, but individuals who give $250 or more. "



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The New Professional Norm: 10+ Million Professionals on LinkedIn Make Social Impact Part of Their Identity [INFOGRAPHIC] | Official LinkedIn Blog

The New Professional Norm: 10+ Million Professionals on LinkedIn Make Social Impact Part of Their Identity [INFOGRAPHIC] | Official LinkedIn Blog: "A new professional norm

And our data reflects this. Just over three years ago, we added the “Volunteer and Causes” section to the LinkedIn profile. We know that volunteer experience is tightly entwined with one’s professional identity – in fact, this had been one of the most requested product features from LinkedIn members. So it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that there are now over 10 million professionals who have added the Volunteer Experience and Causes section to their LinkedIn profiles – sharing the incredible work they’ve done and highlighting the causes and organizations they care most about. That’s up from three million just a year ago. To put that in perspective, 4.5 million of these professionals are in the U.S. where there are approximately 1.5 million nonprofits – meaning there are 3 professionals who want to help to every single nonprofit.

In addition, more than 4 million members have gone a step further in making a meaningful difference by signaling that they are interested in skilled volunteer work or joining a nonprofit board."



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The public view: trust, confidence and support of charities in Scotland | SCVO

The public view: trust, confidence and support of charities in Scotland | SCVO: "This briefing presents and analyses the findings from a poll of the general public in Scotland on trust, confidence and support of charities. These findings are based on a telephone survey of 1,028 respondents (adults aged 16+) commissioned by SCVO and conducted by Ipsos MORI during 9-16 November 2015."



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Philanthropy is Alive and Well In The African-American Community - Memphis Daily News

Philanthropy is Alive and Well In The African-American Community - Memphis Daily News: "While we give in unrecorded ways, we are also on the record with our giving. According to a 2012 report from the Kellogg Foundation, “Almost two-thirds of black households make charitable donations, giving 25 percent more of their income than whites. About $11 billion [in giving] comes from black donors. …” That’s a lot of money."



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Cuts in public funding hit smallest charities hardest, says Lloyds Foundation research | Third Sector

Cuts in public funding hit smallest charities hardest, says Lloyds Foundation research | Third Sector: "Reports published by the foundation show that the smallest charities have experienced large cuts to local and central government funding, while the very biggest have seen their income from these sources grow"



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Charitable Giving Up Nearly 2% in 2015

Charitable Giving Up Nearly 2% in 2015:



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Survey: Measuring Member Engagement Critical to Success: Associations Now

Survey: Measuring Member Engagement Critical to Success: Associations Now: "The “2016 Global Benchmark Reports on Membership Performance and Fundraising Performance” survey shows that engagement is one of respondents’ top goals. This focus, according to ASI’s Global Director of Marketing Edward Wendling, is causing more associations to adopt engagement-measurement techniques, responsive web design, and mobile self-service, as well as increased integration between company databases and websites."



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Charities must build confidence to unlock £1.7bn text donation opportunity » Charity Digital News

Charities must build confidence to unlock £1.7bn text donation opportunity » Charity Digital News: "Only 17 per cent of UK adults prefer to use their smartphone to make a charity donation according to new research released today by Fonix and One Poll, "



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11% of people will volunteer for New Year’s resolution, says Barnardo’s research » Charity Digital News

11% of people will volunteer for New Year’s resolution, says Barnardo’s research » Charity Digital News: "The research shows we’re a caring bunch with just one person wanting to enter the XFactor spotlight, while (14 per cent) fancy volunteering, (11 per cent) fundraising and (six per cent) donating money to charity."



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America’s Billionaire Entrepreneurs Give Nearly US$180 Million In Lifetime, More Than Other UHNW Donor Groups | Wealth-X

America’s Billionaire Entrepreneurs Give Nearly US$180 Million In Lifetime, More Than Other UHNW Donor Groups | Wealth-X: "Here are some other key findings from the report:
Global philanthropic giving among the world’s ultra wealthy totaled US$112 billion in 2014, equivalent to the GDP of Morocco.
The typical UHNW philanthropist donates $28.7 million in his or her lifetime.
UHNW individuals each contributed, on average, US$530,100 last year in the form of donations and pledges to philanthropy.
America’s ultra wealthy women who inherited their wealth give nearly 19% of their fortune to charitable causes, more than any other UHNW donor group.
73.2% of UHNW philanthropists are self-made.
65% of UHNW individuals donate over $1 million throughout their lifetimes.
Based on total donations, India has the most generous donors, followed by the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
Based on total donations as a percentage of net worth, the United Kingdom has the most generous donors, followed by the United States and Hong Kong.
Education remains the most popular cause that UHNW individuals donate to, followed by health."



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Abila Highlights Key Nonprofit Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2016 | Abila

Abila Highlights Key Nonprofit Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2016 | Abila: " In a recent survey of Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) members, more than 80 percent said integration between their fundraising and accounting software was important. Integration hubs will play a role as technology is used to break down friction between departments, and between organizations and their donors."



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Charity in the Checkout Line | CAF America

Charity in the Checkout Line | CAF America: "A recent study conducted by the Good Scout Group found that 71% of consumers surveyed have participated in a charity at checkout program. This success rate has ensured that, despite the fact that 66% of donors give less than $2, such programs can still raise an incredibly impactful amount of money. In their most recent exploration of point of sale donations, the Cause Marketing Forum found that the 63 largest corporations who participated in these campaigns raised $358 million in 2012. There are promising signs in the Good Scout Group’s study that this figure can continue to grow. Of respondents who recall the last charity they supported at the register 79% felt more positively about that charity, a strong indication that they would be likely to support that organization again in the future. Additionally, 60% of consumers felt more positively about retailers who participated in such programs, making them more likely to remain loyal to those brands moving forward. Charity in the checkout line presents itself as a win-win for both charities and retail corporations."



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