Fundraising

Thanks to Rushworth Kidder of the Institute for Global Ethics for point this out in his weekly Ethics Newsline. The NewTithing Group has compiled an IRS based assessment of charitable giving using the percentage of income donated and income brackets.  The graph shows a conclusion that may be startling to some – those who make less tend to give a ...

Middle income Americans who earn $50,000 to $100,000 a year are two to six times more generous in their share of investment assets that they give to charity than those Americans who make more that $10 million a year.The least generous of all working age Americans in 2003 were among the young and prosperous taxpayers age 35 and under who ...

Yesterday I was reading a fund raising magazine about the shapes and sizes of fund raising that included some unique methods.  Then I thought of one of my own methods.  It is not new, a "Party with a Purpose" has been around the ACS for a long time, but not with an Olympic theme. If a couple of these parties ...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy lists the largest charitable-gift funds this year in the United States.  The top four are an order of magnitude larger that the rest. With assets under management, they are: Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund…………………………………..$3.10 billion Vanguard Charitable Endowment…………………………….$1.01 billion National Philanthropic Trust……………………………………..$551 million Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving…………………………….$536 million With new laws forcing the payout of at ...