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Thoughts from Jeffrey
Posted by JBA in Campaign Planning & Management, Capacity Building, Fundraising in a Recession, Organizational & Personal Development, Strategic Planning on April 3rd, 2012
As you know, I’m a fundraising “nerd” and I just love numbers. This morning when I couldn’t sleep, I turned on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and watched these news programs starting around 3 am. What I found was fascinating.
First, we’ve had the best first quarter of any year since 1998. First quarter of 2012 is the best we’ve had in 14 years with the Dow over 13,000.
Second, gas continues to inch up and is nearly $4.00 per gallon.
Third, market capitalization of Apple was $648,000,000,000 (that’s $640 billion) making it the most valued company in the world.
Fourth, Wisconsin’s primary is next Tuesday, the Republican’s are narrowing down their nominee, and this year political actions committee’s and candidate committee’s will spend $6,000,000,000 (that’s $6 billion).
Finally, nonprofits are doing more with fewer nonprofits according to the Chronicle on Philanthropy. Looks like the recession’s taken a hit for a couple hundred thousand nonprofits. See the link below.
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Giving USA event in Kansas City July 22
Posted by JBA in Giving USA, Workshops & Learning Opportunities on June 15th, 2010
Hear more about the latest Giving USA findings
from one of the report’s lead collaborators!
from one of the report’s lead collaborators!
Brought to you by
July 22, 2010
8:30 – 11:00 a.m.
UMKC Pierson Auditorium
Presentedy by
Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Admission is free, but space is limited.
Giving USA Foundation and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, recently announced that estimated charitable contributions in 2009 fell to $303.75 billion, down from $315.08 billion for 2008 – a 3.2 percent drop in current dollars.
- Why are these numbers encouraging?
- How are donors changing the way they view their role?
- What lessons can Kansas City nonprofits draw from the report?
Get answers to these questions and more from Giving USA Foundation members Jeffrey Byrne & Associates at this FREE workshop. Learn what’s behind Giving USA 2010 report highlights and how to use this information to strengthen your fundraising in 2010 and beyond.
- The inflation-adjusted drop of 3.2 percent is not as severe as the decline in 1974-75, when giving fell by 5.5 percent or in 2008 when the drop was 5.7 percent.
- Corporate giving rose to an estimated $14.1 billion, up 5.5 percent adjusted for inflation, taking corporate giving to within 1 percent of pre-recession levels.
- While overall giving declined, many donors made special efforts in 2009 to respond to humanitarian needs.
“Given that 2009 represented the worst recession since the Great Depression, the stock market’s biggest drop in many years, 10 percent unemployment, two wars, the housing market bottoming out and the political uncertainty of healthcare reform, the fact that giving fell only a few percentage points is very strong testament to Americans’ willingness to give.
When you serve a mission and that mission has a need, you simply can’t wait for better times.Successful fundraising continues under all economic conditions.”
~Jeffrey Byrne, President
Jeffrey Byrne & Associates
Kansas Citians Among Most Generous
Posted by JBA 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.