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COVID Cut Giving By Women More Than By Men

The NonProfit Times

Ackerman is the studys primary author. associate dean for Research and International Programs and Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies. Ackerman said that additional research is needed to understand why job loss was associated with declining donor rates for single women but not for other groups.

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What Donors Do After A Disaster

Lets Talk Nonprofit

In studies on giving in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, to the tsunami in Southeast Asia [in 2004] and to Hurricane Katrina [in 2005], the average gift was between $125 and $135. The median gift - perhaps a better measure of what is typical - was $50.".

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Equitable Prospecting Helps Expand Donor Support

The NonProfit Times

Zumayas example would come as no surprise to Tyrone McKinley Freeman, associate professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in Indianapolis. The gentleman was not used to being asked to give, and there was no real impediment.