Posts Tagged ‘Giving in Kansas City’
Did you miss the Giving in Kansas City episode on KCUR?
Posted by JBA in Giving USA, JBA News & Notes, Uncategorized on July 15th, 2009
During the week leading up to the Kansas City presentation of Giving USA, JBA’s Jennifer Furla joined in a discussion about philanthropy in Kansas City on KCUR’s news talk show, Up to Date.
Here is the program summary, as described on the KCUR online archives:
There’s no debate that times are tough with foreclosures and lay-offs everywhere you turn. However, even though this year witnessed the first decline of charitable giving in decades, people still manage to give to charitable causes. In fact, Kansas City is one of the most giving cities in the nation.
Steve Kraske talks with Patrick Rooney, the executive director of the Center on Philanthropy, Jennifer Furla, the executive vice president of Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, and Jaclyn Steiner, the Assistant Vice President of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. They examine how although national giving has declined slightly, things may be on the upswing in Kansas City as the city’s average high-income individual giving is twice the national average.
Listen to the program here: Up to Date – A discussion about philanthropic giving in Kansas City and the nation [Source: archive.kcur.org]
Kansas Citians Among Most Generous
Posted by Jennifer Furla in Capacity Building, Fundraising in a Recession, Giving USA, JBA News & Notes on July 14th, 2009
Giving in Kansas City report
Released July 9 to an audience of more than 300 Kansas City-area nonprofit professionals, and in special sessions with grantmakers, board volunteers and philanthropists, Giving in Kansas City 2008 gives us statistical support for what many of us have suspected all along: Kansas Citians are a very generous lot.
So much so that household giving outpaces national averages by a range of 50% to as much as two times greater for various demographics. And, across all income levels, Kansas Citians give more per household than others across the nation.
Benchmarked against Giving USA, the authoritative source for tracking philanthropic giving in America for more than half a century, and researched by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Giving in Kansas City received tremendous attention in local media. Visit our site, as well as the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Kansas City’s Nonprofit Connect to download a copy of the report, the July 9 presentation on Giving in Kansas City and Giving USA, and to connect to links to KCUR’s coverage on Up to Date with Steve Kraske and front-page coverage in The Kansas City Star.
Starting July 15, the Kansas City nonprofit community can register to attend one of six sessions co-sponsored by JB&A and Nonprofit Connect, along with the Community Foundation, this Fall to look at specific sector data and to share our collective experience with fundraising and how we are reponding to challenges in the current economy.