Charities Predict Stagnant or Declining End-of-Year Fundraising :: PNNOnline ::

Charities Predict Stagnant or Declining End-of-Year Fundraising :: PNNOnline ::: "The GuideStar annual survey reveals nonprofits held their own in the first three quarters of 2005 but fear the “Katrina effect” for giving season.


Nearly 80 percent of charitable organizations anticipate that the year’s natural disasters will cause end-of-year contributions to remain at or decrease from 2004 levels, a new survey by GuideStar, the public charity that connects people with nonprofit information, reveals.


Representatives of more than 3,900 organizations participated in GuideStar’s fourth annual nonprofit economic survey in October. Asked how they thought giving to disaster relief would affect contributions to their nonprofits for the rest of 2005, 41 percent said they believed contributions would stay about the same as last year, 38 percent reported that they expected contributions to drop, 4 percent anticipated an increase, and 17 percent stated they didn’t know.

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