Fundraising

The June 9th issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy has a number of interesting articles based on their annual survey of Internet giving. It’s not a surprise that online donations grew sharply in 2004 for large charities. While Internet contributions still account for a small percentage of overall fundraising, the growth rate of online donations is outstanding. The charities that ...

How cool is this? "Indirect fire is a constant threat to the small base on the western outskirts of Baghdad, just south of Abu Ghurayb." Excerpted from an article by 2LT PETER J. EULER546th Transportation CompanyLog Base SeitzIraq For soldiers deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III, free time is often hard to come by, and is usually reserved ...

Continuing the exploration of Relay blogging, I was tipped by Mike Mitchell to the BlogPulse tool by Intelliseek. It scans all the blog sites it is aware of and graphs the hits for a key word or phrase like "relay for life" as a percent of all its blog posts. So here’s the graph of mentions of Relay since mid-February. ...

The Philantropic Giving Index (PGI) Developed at Indiana U., is helpful in judging the success of programs and making decisions about fundraising staratgy. Since 1998 the PGI has surveyed a panel of knowlegeable  senior developmemt officers  about the current fundraising climate and what it will be like in six monthes. In Decenber ’04  it indicated that fundraising was going to ...