In about every third workshop I teach on fundraising, someone challenges the standard statistics on giving. But the statistics are more difficult to find. Here's a link to information from Giving USA 2006, along with findings from Center on Philanthropy research I hadn't seen before, from an unlikely source, the National Park Service.

If these statistics are right, then it should be easier to ask for a donation than to recruit volunteers, and easier yet to find wealthier donors. Still, in 2005 more than half of Americans did some volunteer work (57%), including 75% of people with household incomes of $75,000. This is good news for your fundraising efforts.

The most painful statistic is that only one in ten respondents strongly agree that "charitable organizations are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds." This poor image is a problem for all of us. We cannot be complacent and just accept dollars given to us without trust. You can start with complete transparency. Harsh? Maybe.

The main focus of this online report is communications and better linkages between the nonprofit sector, the media, and new technology. Here's some more food for thought from the report: "Not-for-profits are usually passionate about their work.

But at another level, we all want our statistics to show greater success than that. There's an old quote from Babe Ruth that I love to apply to fundraising: "Each strike gets me closer to the next home run." I was reminded of that yesterday when I read Adviser to fund-raisers: Go where the money is in The Journal News. Get back up again.

Besides needing required documents, when the grant writer is writing the case statements, or main portion of the grant proposal (that usually only changes information quarterly or annually); he/she will need the historical program success, agency history, and program statistics information, to write a strong proposal.

They compared the profitability boost of ads that appealed primarily to emotions versus those that relied on rational information, like statistics. Robert Heath of the University of Bath’s School of Management found in 2006.  Several advertising studies show the same thing. These results affirm what Dr. He found that U.S.

If you want, you can include statistics of granting in your region from 2006 to give a truer snapshot of the trend locally, in your region. [Please help us. We at The Grant Plant, LLC want to understand what nonprofits need from the services that they hire, today, given the economy; so please take our short survey. Thank you. studies.

By stating statistical facts, numbers of the public educated, explaining how the public benefits from your curatorial work, etc. For example: "As reported by attendees' surveys, RRRC proudly taught 3,762 people about ruby preservation during the 2006 fiscal year. We took our spelling tests and did pretty well. William Strunk Jr.,

Part 2 Interview with Joel Rubinson Sidebar : It's interesting to see how Joel's views and the perception of social media research differ in 2009 from the 2006 interview I had with Bill Neal , former chairman of the board of AMA. 0160; I have an MBA in statistics and economics from the University of Chicago.