Network for Good

DMANF Honors LW Robbins President Lynn Edmonds With Max Hart Award
January 15, 2013

The Nonprofit Federation of the Direct Marketing Association (DMANF) is pleased to announce the selection of Lynn Edmonds, president of LW Robbins, as its 2013 Max L. Hart Nonprofit Achievement Award recipient. The Max L. Hart Nonprofit Achievement Award, presented annually at the Washington Nonprofit Conference, recognizes career accomplishments by an exceptional fundraising professional with a track record of service, leadership, innovation and integrity.

Year-End Online Gifts Are Bigger, but Number of Donations Slows
December 19, 2012

Donors are making bigger online gifts to charity this month than they did last year at this time, but they are making fewer gifts, according to data provided by Network for Good, a giving site that provided information on online contributions to 8,700 charities. Last week, the average online gift made through Network for Good was $122.55, up from $113.57 for the same week in 2011. The average gift size rose by a similar percentage in the previous week.

Online Donations Grew 42 Percent Last Week, Thanks to #GivingTuesday
December 5, 2012

Propelled largely by charities’ push to promote #GivingTuesday, the amount of money charities collected online last week increased 42 percent when compared with the same week last year. That finding is based on a study of 8,700 charities that used Network for Good to process online gifts. But while charities got bigger gifts, they did not necessarily do so well in attracting new donors last week. The number of donations increased by only 1.2 percent this year, to 14,026.

Thanksgiving Week Shows Healthy Giving Signs
November 27, 2012

Americans gave a lot more to charity in the past week than they did at this time a year ago, producing a 61 percent surge in online donations. The data come from a Chronicle of Philanthropy analysis of gifts processed by Network for Good, which handles online donations for charities. The Chronicle looked at gifts that the group processed for more than 8,700 nonprofits in both 2011 and 2012 and found that not only did the amount of donations increase, but so did the number of donations.

Today's Featured Blog Posts
September 27, 2012

Check out recent posts from the About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs and Network for Good blogs.