Nonprofits To Add Staff, Don’t Budget For Recruitment | The NonProfit Times

Nonprofits To Add Staff, Don’t Budget For Recruitment | The NonProfit Times: More nonprofits plan to hire new staff in 2014 than use current staff, according to a new survey released today.

Washington, D.C.-based Nonprofit HR, a human resources firm that works exclusively with nonprofit organizations, released the 2014 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey, which includes responses from more than 400 nonprofits nationwide.

Foundation Assets Reach Highest Level Since Downturn - Foundation Survey - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Foundation Assets Reach Highest Level Since Downturn - Foundation Survey - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: A strong stock market helped boost the assets last year of the Gates, Hewlett, and other big foundations to their highest levels since the Great Recession gutted endowments six years ago, according to a new Chronicle survey.

Yet grant makers still aren’t as well off as they were before the downturn, and that continues to put a damper on their giving. What it’s not doing, though: crimping ambitious new grant-making efforts to deal with vexing problems.

UK Giving to cease publication | Third Sector

UK Giving to cease publication | Third Sector: he research report published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Charities Aid Foundation ran from 2004 to 2012

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Charities Aid Foundation will no longer publish their joint donor research report UK Giving.

The survey ran from 2004 to 2012, with the last report showing that donations to charity fell by �2.3bn in real terms to �9.3bn during 2011/12.

IRS Projects Sector’s Worth At $2.939 Trillion | The NonProfit Times

IRS Projects Sector’s Worth At $2.939 Trillion | The NonProfit Times: The nonprofit sector collectively had nearly $3 trillion in assets during 2010, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Statistics of Income Winter Bulletin. Total assets came in at $2.939 trillion. That’s about 9 percent more than 2009, when total assets added up to $2.673 trillion.

Six In 10 Charities Raise More Funds in 2013 Than in 2012; Rising Giving Seen Across Many Different Sources - Press Release - Digital Journal

Six In 10 Charities Raise More Funds in 2013 Than in 2012; Rising Giving Seen Across Many Different Sources - Press Release - Digital Journal: Sixty-two percent of charities raised more funds in 2013 than they did in 2012, according to the Nonprofit Research Collaborative's Year-End 2013 Fundraising Survey, released today at the Association of Fundraising Professionals' 51st International Conference on Fundraising.

Hospital CEO Turnover at Historic Highs - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Hospital CEO Turnover at Historic Highs - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: he American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) published its findings that annual CEO turnover has hit an all-time high of 20 percent. Since about 80 percent of US hospitals are either nonprofit or owned by state or local governments, this is big news for some of the charitable sector's largest institutions.

Charities can't just expect the public's trust; they must earn it | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

Charities can't just expect the public's trust; they must earn it | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: NPC (New Philanthropy Capital) published a report last week entitled Mind the Gap: What the public thinks about charities. It revealed that a third of the public say their views towards charities have become more positive over the past three years, compared with a quarter who are now more negative.

NCVO and CAF go separate ways on giving research

NCVO and CAF go separate ways on giving research: NCVO and the Charities Aid Foundation have ditched their annual co-produced philanthropy report, UK Giving, after the 2012 report prompted much criticism within the charity sector.

The two organisations today announced that they will be building on their individual research strengths and develop “complementary programmes of research”, but have no plans to produce any more co-authored reports.

Colleges’ characteristics linked to big gifts � Philanthropy North Carolina

Colleges’ characteristics linked to big gifts � Philanthropy North Carolina: Leaders’ tenure, board giving, national ranking are associated with the number and value of million-dollar gifts to colleges and universities, a new study says.

Other key factors include a school’s age, its investment in employees, endowment size, enrollment, alumni giving, and the type and location of the institution, says the study the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and Johnson Grossnickle and Associates, a consulting firm to nonprofits.

Nearly Half of All Nonprofits Plan to Add Jobs This Year - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Nearly Half of All Nonprofits Plan to Add Jobs This Year - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Forty-five percent of nonprofits plan to add jobs this year, about the same share that created new positions in 2013, finds a survey released today.

Nonprofit mergers flat, face hurdles � Philanthropy North Carolina

Nonprofit mergers flat, face hurdles � Philanthropy North Carolina: Funder support

Funders are improving their support for mergers, it says, and more nonprofit executive teams considering mergers “as a regular step in strategic planning.”

The study compared legal merger filings in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts and North Carolina from 1996 to 2006 to those from 2007 to 2012.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management - BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index

BNP Paribas Wealth Management - BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index: How committed to individual giving are the wealthy from Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East? What are their common characteristics? Which causes are the most popular? In its second year, the “2014 BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index” measures the commitment of individual philanthropists. This year’s report focused more specifically on the importance of timing from their point of view and where they are on their philanthropic journey.

Volunteerism is at lowest level since 2002 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Volunteerism is at lowest level since 2002 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Just over a quarter of adults in the U.S., 26.2 million people, volunteered for an organization in 2013, a percentage that has fallen for the last two years and reflects the lowest level of volunteerism since the government started keeping track in 2002.

The data were released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and collected at the behest of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency. The information reflects volunteerism between September 2012 and September 2013.

Not everything that matters can be measured

Not everything that matters can be measured: I frequently hear nowadays that our sector doesn’t actually know if we’re doing any good.

This makes me really cross. There’s something ridiculously patronising about the notion that day after day a bunch of charity sector workers and volunteers turn up to work with no idea at all if what they’re doing is helping!

Legacy donations could rise by half if prompted by solicitor

Legacy donations could rise by half if prompted by solicitor: esearch has shown that a fifth of adults are more likely to remember a charity in their will if they are prompted by a solicitor, more than 50 per cent more than the proportion who would leave a legacy unprompted.

A report by financial services organisation Foresters reported that 12 per cent of UK adults say they intend currently to leave a legacy to charity, but this figure could be increased to 19 per cent if more emphasis is put on the practice.

Student volunteering worth �175m a year, report says

Student volunteering worth �175m a year, report says: Student volunteering is worth �175m a year, according to a report published today by the National Union of Students.

The report, The Student Volunteering Landscape, says that 725,000 students, or 31 per cent of the student population, currently volunteer, and contributed an average of 44 hours a year.

Gifts to Colleges Rose Nearly 10% Last Year - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Gifts to Colleges Rose Nearly 10% Last Year - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Alumni Give More

Nearly 60 percent of the survey respondents reported increases in giving over a year earlier. Foundations gave $10-billion of the nearly $34-billion total, followed by $9-billion from alumni,

Donors Choose Unveils Data on Giving Trends and Need in Public Schools - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Donors Choose Unveils Data on Giving Trends and Need in Public Schools - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: As a sample of the past thirteen years of data that is now available, Donors Choose has released a 2013 Giving Index highlighting the organization’s largest year of donor activity, representing 340,000 donors, $60.2 million in donations and over 130,000 projects. Some of this study’s most interesting findings relate to geography: Fifty percent of donors give to schools within 25 miles of their zip code, with Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco, and Oklahoma City (in ranked order) identified as being the most charitable cities for these projects. The study also revealed that Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and the Bronx are the cities with the greatest need (or requests via Donors Choose). The fact that these lists do not match up exactly might be an issue worth exploring for both Donors Choose and for educators and administrators in those respective cities.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management - BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index

BNP Paribas Wealth Management - BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index: How committed to individual giving are the wealthy from Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East? What are their common characteristics? Which causes are the most popular? In its second year, the “2014 BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index” measures the commitment of individual philanthropists. This year’s report focused more specifically on the importance of timing from their point of view and where they are on their philanthropic journey.

Indiana nonprofit sector grew during Great Recession, outpacing state's for-profits and government : Newscenter : IUPUI

Indiana nonprofit sector grew during Great Recession, outpacing state's for-profits and government : Newscenter : IUPUI: Despite two recessions that hit the state’s for-profit sector hard, a new Indiana University report shows that the state’s nonprofit sector grew every year from 1995 through 2011. However, this growth was uneven and driven mainly by the nonprofit health care and education industries.

Three smaller industries -- arts, entertainment and recreation; social assistance; and membership and related organizations -- proved to be much more vulnerable to recessions and other external pressures. In each case, employment and payroll grew during the early years of the 1995-2011 period, but then stalled and declined.