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 2010 Workshop Schedule & Registration
Kansas City
Giving USA 2010
Brought to you by
July 22, 2010
8:30 – 11:00 a.m.
UMKC Pierson Auditorium
Presented by
Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., Executive Director
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Admission is free, but space is limited.
Giving
USA Foundation and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at
Indiana University, recently announced that estimated charitable
contributions in 2009 fell to $303.75 billion, down from $315.08
billion for 2008 – a 3.2 percent drop in current dollars.
- Why are these numbers encouraging?
- How are donors changing the way they view their role?
- What lessons can Kansas City nonprofits draw from the report?
Get
answers to these questions and more from Giving USA Foundation members
Jeffrey Byrne & Associates at this FREE workshop. Learn what’s
behind Giving USA 2010 report highlights and how to use this
information to strengthen your fundraising in 2010 and beyond.
- The
inflation-adjusted drop of 3.2 percent is not as severe as the decline
in 1974-75, when giving fell by 5.5 percent or in 2008 when the drop
was 5.7 percent.
- Corporate giving rose to an estimated $14.1
billion, up 5.5 percent adjusted for inflation, taking corporate giving
to within 1 percent of pre-recession levels.
- While overall giving declined, many donors made special efforts in 2009 to respond to humanitarian needs.
"Given
that 2009 represented the worst recession since the Great Depression,
the stock market’s biggest drop in many years, 10 percent unemployment,
two wars, the housing market bottoming out and the political
uncertainty of healthcare reform, the fact that giving fell only a few
percentage points is very strong testament to Americans’ willingness to
give.
When you serve a
mission and that mission has a need, you simply can’t wait for better
times.Successful fundraising continues under all economic conditions."
~Jeffrey Byrne, President
Jeffrey Byrne & Associates
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