Despite Predictions, Charitable Donors Just Keep Giving

Despite Predictions, Charitable Donors Just Keep Giving: "Despite Predictions, Charitable Donors Just Keep Giving

By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 9, 2006; Page B01

Donor fatigue? What donor fatigue?

For weeks, many nonprofit organizations have been predicting that the billions of dollars that Americans poured into relief funds last year to help the victims of epic disasters -- the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake -- would result in 'donor fatigue.' Donors would grow weary of charitable giving after contributing to disaster-relief groups and desert their regular causes, the theory went."