Charitable Giving Up 1.6 Percent in June, Online Giving Up 8.2 Percent, Index Finds

Press release (Aug. 1, 2012) — The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving, a broad-based fundraising index that reports overall giving trends of 2,848 US-based nonprofit organizations representing $8 billion in yearly giving on a monthly basis, reported that charitable giving increased 1.6 percent for the three months ending June 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011. The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving, comprised of actual revenue data from 2,004 nonprofits representing $387 million in yearly online giving, reported that online giving rose 8.2 percent for the three months ending June 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.