Crowdfunding Continues to Gain Traction as a Fundraising Tool
Roughly 32 percent of people say they donate to a crowdfunding effort each year, according to a survey. Nine out of 10 respondents said they’d continue to give the same amount or more to crowdfunding efforts over the next three years.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Asian American Business Leaders Pledge $10 Million to Fight Hate
The founders of Peloton, Stitch Fix, YouTube, and Zoom are among the more than 3,400 Asian American business leaders and their supporters who have pledged to fund nonprofits that serve Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
New Program Trains Athletes in Advocacy and Philanthropy
Players on the Indiana Fever WNBA team are the first group in the new program designed to train professional athletes in how to choose a cause they care about and inspire people to support it.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Nonprofits Step Up to Bolster Covid-19 Vaccination Efforts
International aid groups, social service organizations, advocacy nonprofits and others are all doing what they can to ensure vaccines get to people of color, the homeless, and other people in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Events in Which Donors Raise Money From Friends Saw Steep Revenue Declines in 2020
With social gatherings banned or curtailed for much of last year, just four of the top 30 athletic and other large-scale fundraising campaigns managed to outpace their 2019 revenue.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Bill and Melinda Gates Say Digital Giving Can Democratize Philanthropy
They also highlighted winners of their foundation’s Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge, which awarded as much as $100,000 to ideas for ways that help small-dollar donors support their own or other communities in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
College Fundraisers’ Confidence Continues to Be on the Upswing
The latest in a series of surveys of higher-education fundraisers found similar levels of confidence among fundraising leaders and gift officers for the first time since April 2020.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Donors Say They Plan to Continue to Give in 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic did not spoil charitable giving, and in some cases has even inspired bigger gifts, according to findings from two new surveys from technology companies FrontStream and Data Axle.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
The organization last week released an internal investigation urging changes in workplace procedures but said it did not find major wrongdoing.
By Emily Haynes and dan.parks
Diverse Donors to Watch: Blacks, Hispanics, and Other Often-Overlooked Supporters
Roughly 14 percent of millionaires are people of color, and that number seems likely to grow as demographics keep changing.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence