Money Makes People Stingy
The more money a person has, the less generous, helpful, compassionate, and charitable he is toward other people.
The more money a person has, the less generous, helpful, compassionate, and charitable he is toward other people.
Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results by Tom Tierney & Joel L. Fleishman
Archaic ideas and the fundamental restructuring taking place in our economy, makes business as usual unacceptable.
A recent study shows that at all income levels women give more than men—both more frequently and more generously when controlled for income.
Philanthropedia offered low-cost, high-quality information and a way for grantmakers to share what they know.
Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers, but most CEOs do a poor job of managing them. As a result, more than one-third of those who volunteer one year do not donate their time the next year.
Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs is “catalytic philanthropy”—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors.
From pink ribbons to Product Red, cause marketing adroitly serves two masters, earning profits for corporations while raising funds for charities. Yet the short-term benefits of cause marketing—also known as consumption philanthropy—belie its long-term costs. These hidden costs include individualizing solutions to collective problems; replacing virtuous action with mindless buying; and hiding how markets create many social problems in the first place. Consumption philanthropy is therefore unsuited to create real social change.
Our economy is in bad shape and will only get worse. So what can fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize income?
Google DotOrg launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the results have been less than stellar.