Overall Charitable Giving up 2.2% in October and Online Giving up 10.6%, Index Shows

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving, a broad-based fundraising index that reports overall giving trends of 1,264 U.S.-based nonprofit organizations representing $2.56 billion in yearly giving on a monthly basis, reported that charitable giving rose 2.2% for the three months ending October 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving, comprised of actual revenue data from 1748 nonprofits representing $424 million in yearly online giving, reported that online giving rose 10.6% for the three months ending October 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.