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AFP eWire
December 10, 2007 |
Nonprofit Sector Sees Significant Increase in Governance Changes Majority of charities have put in place new governance and accounting policies since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley accountability law.   |
AFP eWire
December 11, 2006 |
2006 Giving on Pace So Far with Previous Years Contribution levels in the U.S. through the first nine of months of 2006 are remarkably similar to levels seen in 2004 and 2005, according to a recent survey. |
| AFP eWire |
Canadian Charitable Giving Rises by 7 Percent in 2004 Canadian charities saw their fundraising increase by more than 7 percent in 2004, according to a new survey. |
AFP eWire
December 19, 2008 |
Charity Fundraising Efforts Lagging Significantly This Holiday Season More than half of charities across North America are raising less money during the 2008 holiday giving season (October through December) than they did last year, according to a survey conducted by AFP. |
| AFP eWire |
Many Charities Behind on Their Fundraising This Holiday Season, but Still Optimistic Less than half of charities across North America are raising more money during the 2007 holiday giving season than they did last year. |
AFP eWire
December 3, 2007 |
2007 Donations Good So Far, But What About the Holidays? A new survey shows that giving in the first nine months of 2007 was strong. However, will the U.S. housing crisis and overall economic conditions across North America affect giving in the last quarter of the year? |
AFP eWire
January 22, 2007 |
Eight in 10 Give to Charity, but Average Giving Down 83% of Americans gave to charity in 2006, but the average annual contribution among those making gifts fell from $1,352 in 2005 to $1,220, according to a new poll. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 24, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Survey Finds Technology Spending to Increase A survey of bank executives find most planning to increase technology spending. |
AFP eWire
January 30, 2006 |
Corporate Contributions Up in 2004 Corporate giving to non-profits and charities increased by 22% from 2003 to 2004, according to an annual survey. |
AFP eWire
October 16, 2004 |
Canadians More Confident in Charities Than Americans According to a recent survey, Canadians remain extremely confident in the charities that serve them, although a large majority feels that a national charity watchdog organization should be created. |
AFP eWire
March 31, 2005 |
Nonprofits Implement Record-Retention Policies to Sharpen Governance Nonprofits are encouraged to use record retention policies. Suggestions are made to adapt a policy to different types of organizations. |
| AFP eWire |
Charitable Fundraising Takes Another Hit Just 43 percent of charities raised more money in 2009 than in 2008, marking it the worst year for charitable fundraising in a decade. |
AFP eWire
April 3, 2012 |
New Survey Looks at How Charities Are (And Are Not) Connecting With Donors in Canada Donors may surprise charities in some of the priorities they emphasize in their interactions with charities, according to What Canadian Donors Want, a new survey conducted by AFP of more than 1,000 donors across the country. |
AFP eWire
August 21, 2006 |
New Survey Profiles Canadian Fundraisers A new survey of Canadian fundraisers shows that a large majority abides by a code of ethics, but only half have a Donor Bill of Rights in place as a formal measure in their organization. |
| AFP eWire |
53 Percent of U.S. Charitable Organizations Surveyed Say Contributions Rose in 2011 A new report shows first signs of increase in contributions in four years. |
AFP eWire
January 9, 2006 |
Ignore Donor Intent at Your Peril A new survey shows that donors are very concerned with how charities use their contributions and consider it a serious matter if organizations use donations for unauthorized purposes. |
AFP eWire
December 15, 2009 |
AFP Holiday Giving Survey Shows Giving Still Lagging, But Optimism Rising Among Charitable Fundraisers About one-third of charities are raising more funds so far during the 2009 holiday season compared to the same time period in 2008, according to a new survey. |
AFP eWire
March 15, 2004 |
AFP Fundraising Survey Shows Giving Rebounded in 2003 Nearly 73 percent of respondents to AFP's third annual State of Fundraising Survey indicated that their organizations raised the same amount of money or more in 2003 than they did in 2002. |
AFP eWire
March 26, 2007 |
Charities See Significant Fundraising Increases in 2006 Nearly seven in ten charities raised more money in 2006 compared to 2005, and almost a quarter of charities saw fundraising increases of 50% or higher, according to a survey. |
AFP eWire
March 31, 2009 |
Charitable Fundraising Hit New Low in 2008 Less than half of charities raised more money in 2008 than in 2007, and fundraising gains dropped significantly across the board. |
AFP eWire
May 1, 2006 |
Older Americans More Generous, More Skeptical A new survey has found that older Americans are not only more likely to donate their time and money to charities, but also more likely to be skeptical that such organizations are honest and ethical. |
| AFP eWire |
Economy Slows Charitable Giving, Fundraising in 2007 Success rates still high, but gains much lower than 2006 |
AFP eWire
May 14, 2007 |
Are Special Events Inefficient? Recent research about special events and their apparent ineffectiveness for charities has already been criticized for both its methodology and its conclusions. |
AFP eWire
August 25, 2008 |
New Market Research Offers Snapshot of Donors More than half of all donors to human and social service organizations volunteered in 2007, and a third would like to play a more active role in the charities to which they contribute |
AFP eWire
November 12, 2007 |
Giving Environment Strong, Steady While Online Success Grows The giving environment remains very positive, with significant growth in online fundraising, as charities enter the critical end-of-year giving season. Here are some stats. |
AFP eWire
July 9, 2008 |
Gifts of Securities Have Significant Effect on Canadian Charities The number and total value of donations of securities increased significantly from 2005 to 2006 after the Canadian government removed the capital gains tax on such contributions, according to new research. |
AFP eWire
May 29, 2007 |
Fundraising Remains Top Challenge for Charities Despite improved financial situations for many charities, fundraising remains the chief concern for most organizations, according to a new study. |
AFP eWire
March 14, 2005 |
Colleges and Universities See Increased Giving But Lower Alumni Giving Rates Contributions to colleges and universities in the United States increased by 3.4 percent in 2004, according to an annual survey. |
| AFP eWire |
54 Percent of Canadian Charitable Organizations Surveyed Say Contributions Rose in 2011 More than half of surveyed Canadian charitable organizations saw growth in charitable giving lase year. |
| AFP eWire |
Funds Raised Increased at 58 Percent of US and Canadian Charities in 2012 Nearly six in 10 charities surveyed (58 percent) raised more in 2012 than they did in 2011 from contributions, marking the first time since 2006 that significantly more than half showed such positive results. Last year at this time, 53 percent had raised more. |
AFP eWire
October 27, 2008 |
Survey Finds Large Majority Tightening Wallets, Reducing Gifts More than 80 percent of respondents to a recent survey indicate they have become more concerned about their finances, leading half to either reduce their giving or stop giving altogether. |
AFP eWire
December 19, 2005 |
Consumer Thinking in the Holiday Season Two new surveys provide insight into the mindset of consumers towards charitable contributions during the holiday season. |
AFP eWire
May 5, 2008 |
Despite Economy, Some Foundations Plan to Increase Giving Three recent surveys that asked foundations if they plan to increase their giving in 2008 and beyond show mixed results. |
AFP eWire
November 13, 2006 |
Majority of Wealthy Unaffected by Tax Incentives, Not Interested in Leaving a Legacy A new study reveals that a strong majority of wealthy donors in the US would maintain or increase their charitable giving if the estate tax was repealed, and only 25% of those donors are motivated to leave a legacy in their giving. |
AFP eWire
November 20, 2006 |
Accountability, Impact Build Trust in Nonprofits for Wealthy Donors Providing evidence of what their contributions have accomplished and abiding by high levels of accountability are the two critical ways that nonprofits can build trust, especially for wealthy donors, according to a new survey. |
AFP eWire
February 2, 2011 |
Use of Donated Funds Most Common Ethical Challenge for Fundraisers Ensuring that charities use funds in a manner consistent with their mission and the intention of their donors is the most common ethical challenge that fundraisers face, according to a new website poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. |
AFP eWire
May 19, 2009 |
Growth Slows for Online Fundraising in '08, Smaller Donations the Culprit Online fundraising grew in 2008 thanks to an increase in the number of gifts, but the average gift size among all organizations decreased $15 from 2007. |
AFP eWire
March 5, 2007 |
Corporate Contributions Up 14 Percent in 2005 Increases in giving were driven by strong growth in revenue and pre-tax profits. However, contribution levels did not keep pace with this growth, as giving both as a percentage of revenue and as a pre-tax profit fell in 2005. |
AFP eWire
June 20, 2005 |
Charitable Giving Rises Five Percent in 2004 Charitable Giving in the U.S. exceeded $248 billion in 2004, according to the new Giving USA report. |
| AFP eWire |
Biggest Pressure for Future Nonprofit Leaders: Fundraising According to new research, fundraising is the primary reason many potential charity leaders of the future are not interested in being executive directors. |
AFP eWire
February 24, 2006 |
Contributions to Colleges and Universities Grow by Nearly 5 Percent Contributions in 2005 increased to $25.6 billion, driven strongly by individual giving that accounted for nearly half of all giving. Giving by alumni grew by 6%, however the study uncovered a downward trend in the number of alumni willing to give. |
AFP eWire
August 20, 2007 |
Most Nonprofit Boards Not Diverse or Involved in Fundraising Just 29 percent of boards were described as "very active" in fundraising, while 35 percent were ranked as "not at all active." |
AFP eWire
January 28, 2008 |
Canadian Giving Strong as Charity Growth Slows While Canadian giving has experienced strong growth over the first five years of the decade, the number of new charities being formed has slowed considerably and the majority of gifts are given to the largest organizations. |
AFP eWire
October 16, 2004 |
Corporate Giving Still Robust, New Survey Reports Philanthropic giving by U.S. corporations and corporate foundations increased by 24 percent from 2002 to 2003, according to a new survey. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004
Joseph Weber |
Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Parmalat's collapse seems like deja vu all over again. That's because two of the tainted parties are accounting firms: Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. One red-faced party is Italy's government, whose effort to build safeguards didn't work. |
AFP eWire
January 10, 2005 |
New California Regulatory Act Now in Effect -- Fact Sheet Available A comprehensive regulatory bill affecting charities, fundraisers and fundraising counsel who work in California (including organizations and individuals based outside of the state) came into effect at the beginning of 2005. |
AFP eWire
February 6, 2006 |
New Report Shows Fundraisers Hopeful About Giving in U.S. In the second half of 2005, fundraisers became slightly more hopeful than they had been six months previously about the climate for philanthropy in the United States, according to a December survey. |
AFP eWire
November 15, 2005 |
Fundraising Down Slightly Because of Hurricanes: Optimism Still Strong That Giving Will Recover by Year's End According to a survey, nearly half of U.S. charities have seen their fundraising decline because of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes and the associated relief efforts |
AFP eWire
August 18, 2008 |
Donor Retention Trumps Acquisition, Study Notes The Fundraising Effectiveness Project finds a steady trend in the amount of donors and donations lost for every new donor and donation gained. |
| AFP eWire |
Charities Raising More Money, But Still Losing Donors For the first time in five years, charity respondents to the annual Fundraising Effectiveness Project survey saw positive gains in giving, but still continued to lose donors faster than they gained them. |
