Fundraising gets a welcome lift | Crain's New York Business

Fundraising gets a welcome lift | Crain's New York Business: A study of 122 nonprofit executives surveyed by Crain's and the Association of Fundraising Professionals-New York found that 57% of fundraisers believed their employers would bring in more money in 2014, but that only 44% think the overall landscape is improving. A majority seem to believe there is a greater need for the services they provide, with 66% reporting they are expanding programming.

Irish arts fundraising initiative reports income figures | UK Fundraising

Irish arts fundraising initiative reports income figures | UK Fundraising: Preliminary figures from the first 12 months of the Arts Council’s 3-year ‘RAISE’ fundraising pilot show a year-on-year growth of 27 percent amongst the 11 participating arts organisations.

Figures provided by the consultancy agency leading the RAISE programme, 2into3, show that €1.98 million was raised from voluntary income and sponsorship in the organisatio

Vanguard Charitable releases comprehensive report on philanthropic giving through donor-advised funds - Yahoo Finance UK

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Vanguard Charitable releases comprehensive report on philanthropic giving through donor-advised funds - Yahoo Finance UK: Vanguard Charitable, one of the largest charities in the United States and a leading donor-advised fund (DAF), today released an analysis of its donors’ charitable impact based on ten years of granting data and surveys of donors and nonprofit organizations.

In An inside look: 15,330 donors who are giving to charity with a donor-advised fund, Vanguard Charitable examines granting trends of its donors across gender, generation, and geography.

National Secular Society - BBC poll shows that religious people give more to charity than non-religious. Maybe...

National Secular Society - BBC poll shows that religious people give more to charity than non-religious. Maybe...: Here we go again – the BBC has commissioned a survey that apparently shows that religious people are more likely to give to charity than non-religious people.

If you look at the results, you see that the difference in charitable giving between believers and non-believers is not that big. The headline results state:

Overall Charitable Giving to Nonprofits Increased in April | Blackbaud News

Overall Charitable Giving to Nonprofits Increased in April | Blackbaud News: – Providing the most up-to-date information on charitable giving, Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB) today updated The Blackbaud Index with charitable giving trends through April 2014 as well as announced the launch of a new higher education specialty index that tracks fundraising revenue for colleges and universities.

Based on data from 4,138 organizations that raised more than $13 billion in the prior 12 months, The Blackbaud Index reported that overall charitable giving grew 1.3 percent for the three months ending April 2014, as compared to the same period in 2013.

Among 3,281 charities that raised $1.8 billion online in the prior 12 months, online giving grew 7.9 percent in the same three-month period, as compared to the same period in 2013.

Dampened By Recession, Transfer Of Wealth Still On Track | The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Dampened By Recession, Transfer Of Wealth Still On Track | The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: Charities could potentially see $5 trillion to $8 trillion over the next 20 years and $18 trillion to $72 trillion in the next 55 years during a historic generational transfer of wealth in the United States, according to a new report.

GrantStation.com - State of Grantseeking

GrantStation.com - State of Grantseeking: The State of Grantseeking™ Survey and Report

As a part of the grantseeking community, you know how important it is to stay on top of trends. The State of Grantseeking reports spotlight recent developments in funding so that organizations can be more strategic in their grantseeking. These free survey results, which reflect the grantseeking experiences of over 1,200 respondents, can serve as benchmarks for organizations to compare their grantseeking efforts with those of other, comparable organizations. We’re pleased to be able to share this information with you, to assist you in your good work.

The State of Grantseeking™ Spring 2014 Report

The most charitable states in America | Deseret News

The most charitable states in America | Deseret News: A recent Gallup poll has ranked each U.S. state by its charitable giving, listing Utah, Minnesota, and Hawaii as the most generous states.

A minimum of 600 citizens per state were asked whether they had personally donated money to charity, spent time volunteering with an organization, or both over the past month. All 50 states were polled between June and December of 2013.

Ordinary Aristocrats: Philanthropists as Ethical Leaders? | Pro Bono Australia

Ordinary Aristocrats: Philanthropists as Ethical Leaders? | Pro Bono Australia: New research into the way Australian philanthropists are portrayed as ethical leaders in the national media has found that the portrayal reinforces social and economic inequality.

More fundraisers see higher pay; average salaries drop � Philanthropy North Carolina

More fundraisers see higher pay; average salaries drop � Philanthropy North Carolina: More fundraising professionals in the U.S. and Canada got a boost in their average income in 2013, compared to 2012, but average salaries fell nearly eight percent, a new survey says.

And a longstanding and large gap persisted between pay for men and women in fundraising jobs, while the average turnover rate among fundraisers grew slightly, says the 2014 Compensation and Benefits Study from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Online giving is still growing, but triple-digit annual increases are a thing of the past.

Internet fundraising grew by roughly 13 percent last year, according to a survey of 100 of the largest nonprofits conducted by The Chronicle.

Corporate gift aid would be worth more than �230m to charities

Corporate gift aid would be worth more than �230m to charities: Gift aid on corporate donations would be worth more than �230m a year to charities, a new report by the research consultancy nfpSynergy shows.

The sum is based on figures from the NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac 2014 showing that �933m was given in corporate donations and gifts in kind in 2011/12. If charities had been able to claim gift aid on this, it would have been worth an extra �233m to the sector, making corporate donations worth a total of �1.7bn.

University fundraising workforce needs to 'at least double' by 2022

University fundraising workforce needs to 'at least double' by 2022: The number of fundraisers working for UK universities and colleges will need to “at least double” if the sector’s ambition to raise �2bn a year by 2022 is to be achieved, according to research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

HEFCE said its report, An emerging profession: the higher education philanthropy workforce, is the first to take a detailed look at the fundraising workforce in universities and colleges.

Job Opportunities Abound Overseas for Fundraisers - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Job Opportunities Abound Overseas for Fundraisers - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Job Opportunities Abound Overseas for Fundraisers

By Holly Hall

If you’re an experienced fundraiser who wants to live abroad, plentiful job opportunities await in places like Britain and Australia, especially in higher education, according to a new report.

Need for Global Philanthropy Extremely Urgent - Report | Pro Bono Australia

Need for Global Philanthropy Extremely Urgent - Report | Pro Bono Australia: Many global high net worth individuals describe the worldwide need for more philanthropic giving as ‘urgent’, according to the Individual Philanthropy Index from BNP Paribas Wealth Management.

More than 400 High Net Worth Individuals, with assets above $US5 million, replied to a survey conducted by Forbes Insight. The answers were analysed using three main criteria: giving, innovat

Spring 2014 State of Grantseeking Report | Common Good Vermont Blog

Spring 2014 State of Grantseeking Report | Common Good Vermont Blog: his report includes the comparatives by organizational budget, service area, and mission focus, as well as new questions on performance indicator usage and administrative and overhead costs. Individual focus sheets on the nine missions with the greatest response rate and three budget ranges are in progress, and will be posted on the State of Grantseeking ™ webpage.

New Report: Charity and Philanthropy in Russia, China, India and Brazil | Philanthropy In Focus

New Report: Charity and Philanthropy in Russia, China, India and Brazil | Philanthropy In Focus: One of the most significant international developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has been the growing economic power of the so-called BRICs — Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Dismissed in the 1970s by many as economic basket cases, the four countries, which account for over a quarter of the globe’s land mass and more than 40 percent of its population, have, in the quarter-century since that momentous event, opened their economies to the world and emerged as dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services (China and India), and raw materials (Brazil and Russia).

Charity News: CHARITY SURVEY: Optimism & transparency - UK charities embracing greater transparency in response to increased media scrutiny...

Charity News: CHARITY SURVEY: Optimism & transparency - UK charities embracing greater transparency in response to increased media scrutiny...: The report released today by PwC, Charity Finance Group (CFG) and the Institute of Fundraising (IoF) reveals 9 out of 10 charity sector respondents felt that the charity sector had been subject to more scrutiny and media interest.

As a result, 49 per cent of charities said that they had taken steps to enhance levels of transparency and disclosure of financial information during the last year...

Number of Scottish CIOs doubles in just over a year

Number of Scottish CIOs doubles in just over a year: he number of charitable incorporated organisations in Scotland has doubled in just over a year, according to figures released last week by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

SCIOs now make up a third of all charity applications in Scotland, and more applications are made to become SCIOs than any other legal form, the OSCR said. Its figures show that more than one in 24 Scottish charities is now an SCIO.

Nonprofit Finance Fund | Where Money Meets Mission

Nonprofit Finance Fund | Where Money Meets Mission: NFF’s Annual Survey chronicles the challenges facing the nonprofit sector and calls out some of the targeted investments we can start to agree on as a society to salvage the investment we have collectively made in our social infrastructure. We believe that a coordinated intervention now will not only better prepare us for inevitable future economic crises; it can lead to a happier, healthier community for us all.
Key Findings
The economic recovery is leaving behind many nonprofits and communities in need:

80% of respondents reported an increase in demand for services, the 6th straight year of increased demand.
56% were unable to meet demand in 2013—the highest reported in the survey’s history.
Only 11% expect 2014 to be easier than 2013 for the people they serve.