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MacKenzie Scott Sets New 'Open Call' to Donate $250 Million

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Since 2019, when MacKenzie Scott pledged to donate the majority of her wealth, she has given more than $14 billion in unrestricted funds to 1,600 nonprofit organizations. According to Forbes, she is currently worth more than $26 billion.

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Alarming Trends Undercut Record Donations

The NonProfit Times

donors gave to nonprofits during 2023, according to data from Giving USA, is a high-water mark in terms of current dollars, and the amount exceeds pre-COVID-19 pandemic-giving, which peaked during 2019. The first full year of the pandemic, 2021, saw the highest amount of inflation-adjusted dollars donated. Levey The $557.2 billion U.S.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019.

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Can nonprofit arts organizations survive inflation and revenue woes?

Candid

We analyzed data provided by 743 organizations via SMU DataArts’ Cultural Data Profile from 2019 to 2023, revealing the complexities beneath the surface. Donations from individuals and trustees, the second-largest revenue source for the average arts organization, declined slightly in 2020. months in 2019.

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Product Update: Take Donations with ACH and Venmo

CauseVox

But what about donating, you ask? Yes, especially donating. There’s been a huge influx of donors paying with ACH and Venmo for a few reasons: it’s fast, easy, and secure for donors, that’s why nonprofits using these payment methods are seeing higher average donation sizes. donation with Stripe or PayPal).

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The Decline in Small-Dollar Giving Hurts Bottom Lines — and Democracy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Mega-donations make headlines but send the message that philanthropy is for the wealthy. By Amy Schiller Christophe Petit Tesson, AP Donations after the 2019 fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris included nine-figure pledges as well as gifts of a single dollar. We need to celebrate the little gifts that add up to even more.

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What Makes a Good Donate Button?

CauseVox

Here’s a surprising truth for a lot of nonprofit organizations: the donate button on your website is a really big deal! A good donation page is more than a pretty website: it can increase both your number of donors and the size of their donations. And it starts with your donate button. What Can A Donation Page Do?