“Employees are the most important thing to the success of our business so if allocating resources there is going to make a difference in achieving our mission and achieving our  goals, we’re going to allocate resources there,” Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, CEO of the United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Section (USTA-MAS), said. https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Fresh-Reseaerch-E50-Best-Nonprofits.2022.mp3 Last year, the USTA-MAS hired a concierge service for its employees. It’s not about scoring reservations at the trendy new restaurant or tickets to ..read more

A woman builds a business empire and then goes on to give away millions of dollars to charity. It’s not an unusual story, at least not today — but if the woman was an African-American during the Jim Crow era? https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fresh-Research-E49.mp3 Madam C.J. Walker is considered America’s first self-made, female millionaire. We’ll learn more about her in today’s episode from Tyrone McKinley Freeman, the author of Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow. Freeman is an associate professor of philanthropic studi ..read more

Endowments are a common form of giving to higher education, arts , and medical research organizations. https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Fresh-Research-E48-Endow-Black-Led-Nonprofits.mp3 William Foster, managing partner, and Darren Isom, partner, of The Bridgespan Group, analyzed the investment income of 56 nonprofits dedicated to social change. Between 2000 and 2013, only 5% of philanthropic gifts of $10 million or more were deployed to endow social change organizations. On average, the endowments of organizations led by people of color were almost four times smalle ..read more

#GivingTuesday in 2020 raised an estimated $2.47 billion both online and offline, which was up 25% from $1.97 billion in 2019. Almost 35 million people participated in 2020. What’s on tap for 2021? According to Woodrow Rosenbaum, that’s up to nonprofits. “We’ve been handed an opportunity. It’s not often that you have an industry that’s had a multi-year trend that just suddenly turns positive,” the chief data officer for Giving Tuesday said in this bonus episode of the Fresh Research podcast. “Whether that becomes a positive legacy of this crisis, depends on what we do now. How we engage them n ..read more

An increase from 3 to 4 stars on Charity Navigator can be associated with a 6% rise in contributions. For smaller charities, the impact can be as much as 11%. That’s not too surprising but what about when ratings drop? According to new research, there’s no impact on contributions. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/22103847/Fresh-Research-Episode-47.mp3 “There seems to be this asymmetric effect,” said Jennifer Mayo, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan and author of Navigating the Notches.Charity Responses to Ratings. Some charities respond to incentives by ..read more

MacKenzie Scott’s billions of dollars in mega gifts and American donors’ response to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) fueled the largest charities in the United States last year. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/15101213/Fresh-Research-E46-2021-NPT-100.mp3 The 2021 NPT 100 ranks the largest nonprofits in the U.S. that derive at least 10% of total revenue from public support. Colleges and universities are not included in the study and neither are donor-advised funds (DAF). Jacob Harold, executive vice president of Candid, joins the discussion in this episode to ..read more

Nonprofits have been pushing for a universal charitable deduction for years. The CARES Act created a temporary tax deduction for charitable gifts up to $300 for single or married filers in 2020. Congress extended that into 2021 and increased the deduction to $600 for married couples. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/21125155/Fresh-Research-Episode-45.mp3 Two professors at the University of Virginia proposed a tax subsidy to increase civic engagement and volunteering in a time of income inequality and political polarization. In their paper, The Charitable Tax Deduc ..read more

When the Nonprofit Revitalization Act passed in 2013, it was the first major overhaul of nonprofit regulations in New York State in 40 years. The legislation modernized rules around nonprofit boards and committees and, among other things, prohibited nonprofit officers from being present at meetings where their pay is discussed. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/10101745/Fresh-Research.E44.Regulating-CEO-pay.mp3Ilona Babenka In the years since, a trio of researchers has examined the effect that one regulation had on executive compensation, becoming the basis for Reg ..read more

You finish up your shopping and the cashier asks, “Would you like to donate to a local charity?” Do you give? If you do, how much? Or maybe they ask you, would you like to round up your total to donate the difference? Those are some of the scenarios in a recent experiment. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17094339/Fresh-Research-Episode-43.mp3 Results of that experiment are found in Checking Out Charity: A Study of Point-Of-Sale Donation Campaigns, by Adrienne Sudbury and Christian Vossler. Sudbury is a professor at the College of Business and Economics at Longwoo ..read more

The American Cancer Society aims to raise $1 million exclusively through cryptocurrency. Its Cancer Crypto Fund will be renamed in honor of the first donor to contribute $250,000 and donations of $10,000 or more will appear on the Cancer Crypto Fund Wall of Honor. The Salvation Army launched a cryptocurrency option the week before Christmas and received 13 donations, including one donor who gave 2 Bitcoins.   https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/13170358/Fresh-Research.E42.Bitcoin-and-the-Future-of-Fundraising.mp3   Jason Shim and Anne Connelly join this epi ..read more