Donors Say They Will Maintain Support for International Disaster Relief in 2011

January 18, 2011

Nearly three-quarters of American adults surveyed early this month said they would donate about the same or more to international relief efforts in 2011 as they did last year. Forty-three percent of respondents over all said they had contributed to international disaster-relief efforts in the past two years, with 87 percent saying they made donations to aid earthquake survivors in Haiti. The telephone survey of more than 1,000 American adults was commissioned by MoneyGram International, a Dallas company that provides money-transfer services.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.