Buffalo News - Nonprofits try to cope as donor base shrinks: "A sobering survey of charitable giving in Erie County had executives and board members of area nonprofit groups trading ideas Tuesday on how to confront tough economic realities while keeping services going.
About 50 board members and nonprofit managers met in Hauptman Woodward Institute to discuss the results of this year's Report Card on Charitable Giving in Erie County, since 2002 an annual publication of the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
Among the findings in the 20-page report, researched by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at the University at Buffalo, were that:
Charitable giving between 2000 and 2004 in the region grew at one-tenth the pace of the national rate of growth."
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