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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

Looking at annual results over that forty-year period, giving was up in thirty-seven of those years, declining only three times [2] , and none of those declines can be blamed on fundraisers (1987 stock market crash, 2008 sub-prime mortgage debacle and associated crash into a recession; 2009 continuing recession.) As a result, profit suffers.

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Results Of The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2013 Survey on Corporate Giving

Tech Soup

For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2013 Survey on Corporate Giving and Akhtar Badshah of Microsoft on How To Get Corporate Grants

Tech Soup

For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down.

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The 2024 Election: A Grant Writer’s Post Mortem

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The most recent election that seemed historically consequential was 2008, but I’m old enough to remember 1980, which was a true watershed. We sat in stunned silence as this dude ticked off the many proposed budget cuts to federal discretionary grant programs (our “mother’s milk”). Boy was I wrong. and took a meeting with Mr. Zimm.”

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Library launches successful donor newsletter

Tom Ahern

Anecdote: With other tax-payers, Simone and I dutifully attended town budget meetings in the early 2000s where one persistent question was: "Given the rise of the internet, do we really need to fund all these little libraries?" The article's just the right length for skimming, too. Great looking family. The smiles of all kinds say a lot.