Relationships between donors and ministries can cause much anxiety. The Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency report from Grantcraft explores how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of sharedRead more…
Online Fundraising Scorecard: A National Study Analyzing Online Fundraising Habits & Donor Experience
Online fundraising is becoming more and more important. Research in the US indicates that religious organisations are far behind in using technology as effective tool to raise funds. In the free report that can be requested through the given website,Read more…
Making a World of Difference: How BRICS Diaspora Give
Populations of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) who live in the US are keen to contribute both to their countries of origin and to their adopted country. Many of them are also looking outward and wouldRead more…
Nonprofit Communications Trends 2014
Communication is an important part of mobilising funds for ministries and churches. The infographic is a summary of the Nonprofit Communication Trends 2014 report which is the response of more than 2,100 nonprofit (charity) professionals in the US to anRead more…
Doing Business 2014: Understanding regulations for small and medium-size enterprises
To increase overall amount to Kingdom-causes, Christians need to increase their income. This can be done through enterprise development. The attached world bank report ranks the relative ease of creating a new business in 189 countries, looking at such measuresRead more…
Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that the ways in which people spend their money has implications for their happiness. Studies show that people who spend money on others report greater happiness. The benefits of such ‘pro-social’Read more…
The Great Divide: Global income inequality and its cost
Income inequality is surging. Economists warn of the dire consequences of this trend. The Great Divide Report from GlobalPost tries to uncover the ‘ground truth’ of inequality through the lenses of education, race, immigration, health care, government, labor and naturalRead more…
SOCIAL PROGRESS INDEX
To truly advance social progress, we must learn to measure it comprehensively and rigorously. A rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress is indispensable in clarifying its components, benchmarking success, and catalyzing improvement. The Social Progress IndexRead more…
Track 2013 Year-End Online Giving
Donations to a sample group of 14,300 US charities that The Chronicle of Philanthropy is tracking raised $2,059,556 on Thursday 26 December 2013, more than 40 percent over the same day a year ago. New data will be added every Monday, Wednesday, andRead more…
2013 Highlights: The Year in Books
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s top books for 2013 in the areas of fundraising, giving, charity/nonprofit management and advocacy.