Giving Tuesday
About #GivingTuesday: Will Larger Trends Show Up as Reduced Community Revenue?
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Will the increasingly prominent trend of declining small donations make itself felt today, on #GivingTuesday?
philanthropy trends
The Decline of the Small Giver May Presage Decline of Some Small Nonprofits
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The picture is bleak for organizations like HOY that depend almost exclusively on the generosity of individual working-class and middle-class donors.
Capacity Building
The Problems with 2018 Individual Giving as Seen through an Arkansas Lens
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Brace yourselves: We may see some spots of real reduced giving over the next few years.
Philanthropy
The Growth in Total Household Giving Is Camouflaging a Decline in Giving by Small and Medium Donors: What Can We Do about It?
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As we go into intensive fundraising season, some may be wondering about trends they see in individual giving. We want to encourage all of our readers to stay in touch with us on this, so that NPQ can integrate your intelligence into our coverage of the issue. In this article, Dr. Patrick Rooney reveals that small and mid-size donations are falling even as charitable dollars continue to grow, increasing nonprofit dependence on the wealthy few.
Nonprofit News
Should Philanthropy Dive into The Loneliness Problem?
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Is loneliness really increasing?
Philanthropy
A Picture of Jewish Giving Provides Lessons for All
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Changes over the past two decades in longstanding patterns of Jewish funding have challenged nonprofit organizations to adapt or risk losing their support.
Nonprofit News
Can Ford Foundation’s $1 Billion Impact Investing Commitment Alter the Field?
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The Ford Foundation’s commitment in 2017 to dedicate $1 billion to double-bottom line or “mission-related” investments is the largest such investment in the field. The move is laudable, but whether the investments prove to be transformative remains to be seen.
Nonprofit Management
NPQ Presents 7 Trends of 2017 and 11 Predictions for 2018—Please Chime In!
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We at Nonprofit Quarterly present our annual list of trends and predictions. A Danish proverb warns that “prediction is difficult, especially about the future,” but we proceed undaunted.
Nonprofit News
A Philanthropic Sea Change, Or Is It a Tsunami?
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Are nonprofits ready for the philanthropic storm that is already upon us?
Giving Numbers: Reflections on Why, What, and How We Are Counting
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PREMIUM CONTENT |
There are two main, and contradictory, trends in American giving: its steady ascent, and
its relative flatness of growth. This historical reflection of U.S. philanthropy delves into what Soskis, of the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, calls “one of the great, enduring mysteries of philanthropy.”