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Studies Show Growth in Online Giving

By Angela Bevacqua Welcome to our new blog! We plan to discuss topics related to philanthropy, online giving, and GivingFirst in particular. We also hope to share perspectives from a variety of people here at the Foundation. But what’s on our minds right now are the results from recent giving studies. The bad news is that the Giving USA Foundation and Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University  reported that charitable giving from individuals, corporations and foundations was down 3.6% in 2009 over 2008. The hardest hit areas were religion, arts/culture/humanities, education, and public-society benefit. Individual giving in particular was down .4% But the good news is that online giving continues to climb. A study by the software firm Convio indicates that online giving was up 14% in 2009 among the charities they reviewed. In fact, 92% received more donations online in 2009 than 2008. This comes as no surprise to us. In fact, our data through GivingFirst.org is showing more