Charitable giving is on the up according to new research

Think Intelligence

Donations made by the UK public to charity rose by £400 million last year to a total of £10.6 billion, according to the latest research into charitable giving habits from NCVO, in partnership with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
Their report, UK Giving 2010, also found the number of people giving has risen to 56%, an [...]

Charity Trends, General Fundraising, Individual Giving, Recession

Giving in Switzerland unaffected by economic crisis

Della Weight

Figures recently published by Swiss charity quality mark ZEWO this month, suggest that the economic crisis did not affect giving in Switzerland in 2009 as heavily as expected, as income to its members is holding steady.
Around CHF 2.83 billion (£1.84 billion/$2.87 billion) was donated to the 457 ZEWO member charities in 2009, an 8% increase on [...]

Charity Trends, Corporate Fundraising, General Fundraising, Individual Giving, Recession

What can we learn about donors from JustGiving?

Nick Burne

I wrote a post earlier this year to try and explain why I think peer-to-peer sponsorship platforms are a bit mis-understood.
So while I was at the IOF National Convention earlier this month it was great to see there was a session from Jonathan Waddingham, Digital Strategist at JustGiving. There were lots of interesting stats about [...]

Charity Trends, Digital, Individual Giving

State of the Sector survey results published

Matt Ide

Third Sector has started publishing the results of nfpSynergy’s State of the Sector survey, and according the authors there’s some interesting and unexpected findings to be had amongst the data, including:

What effect has the recession had on charities? – 67% say that income has fallen.
How well do charities work with their stakeholders? – just 25% say [...]

Charities, Charity Trends, General Fundraising, Recession

Is direct marketing about to be reborn?

Margaret Bennett

Direct marketing was the mainstay of fundraising in the 1980s and the early 1990s. The tools of our trade were direct mail, inserts, press ads and telemarketing. Our business was built on the back of the mail order catalogue sector which had created the universe of ‘mail order responsive’ lists that formed the backbone of [...]

Charity Trends, General Fundraising, Individual Giving

Fundraising in an Unpredictable Market

Margaret Bennett

During a recession the one thing we can be sure of is that we will be fundraising in an unpredictable market. In the 1980s and 1990s, fundraisers had few reference points to enable them to look back at and learn from the past, but today we have a wealth of quite recent experience to draw [...]

Charities, Charity Trends, Community Fundraising, Recession

Opening the door to outside influence

Della Weight

I’ve often wondered why there’s so little exchange between the for profit and not for profit world? As an industry we are often good at exchanging ideas and sometimes even results – at national and international fundraising conferences, in seminars, training courses and other get-togethers of fundraisers and marketers.  But its fairly rare that you’ll see [...]

Charities, Charity Trends, Corporate Fundraising, Digital, Higher Education, Individual Giving, Recession

Diaspora – Jargon or Opportunity?

Tony Elischer

For several years now fundraisers have been talking about ‘diaspora’, the broad term used to describe people giving to programmes back in their country of origin or culture. Many people believe this to be an Indian word or concept, but they are just one of the many cultures who actively practice this discipline and need.
The [...]

Charities, Charity Trends, Individual Giving