The NonProfit Times and Yearly, an online platform for nonprofits to create digital annual reports, are seeking the best online annual reports to compete for a free subscription to Yearly Premium and national honors and a spot in our September issue’s special report. Nonprofit leaders spend a lot of time and resources on the organization’s annual report. Does your report offer at least one of…

88% of workers at medium-sized NPOs ‘have fun at work’ Increased donations to certain silos of nonprofits notwithstanding, 2020 and 2021 were solidly awful years. Professional and personal stresses skyrocketed, whether due to heightened demand for services, uncertainty about some nonprofits’ abilities to be going concerns, family issues or any of a number of other troubles. These stresses might have been why, when leaders from…

Americans have pulled back on their social activity during the pandemic, with many placing a priority on voting or educating themselves as opposed to taking more direct actions, according to a new study. That said, Americans still want social change – they just want the efforts to be led by corporations. Part of the reason individuals have stepped away from civic engagement was health-related. Many…

Muslim Americans gave $1.8 billion in zakat funding to domestic and international causes in 2021, according to a new report released by the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI.  The average Muslim American household donated $2,070 of zakat funds to charity, according to study data. Zakat, the third of five pillars of Islam, is an obligatory act…

Nonprofits appear to be recovering more slowly than the overall economy through the first quarter of 2022, with almost a half-million nonprofit jobs still not recovered from the pandemic, while charitable giving is not keeping pace with economic growth rates. The quarterly report, Health of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: Quarter Review, from Independent Sector (IS) analyzes federal data that nonprofits can use to strengthen the…

The global philanthropic environment is slightly more favorable than in 2018, with three-fifths of the 91 countries and economies studied reporting a favorable environment for philanthropy. Yet among the 79 countries and economies studied in both 2018 and 2022, this improvement was inconsistent, with nearly 30 economies reporting a shrinking space for philanthropy as a result of their political environments.  The data is from the 2022…

Average annual income from charitable gifts in wills in the United Kingdom (U.K.) is expected to grow by at least £4 billion [$5.24 billion USD] over the next five years and likely in the range of 20% to 30%. The projection comes from the Legacy Market Outlook 2022-2026 by Legacy Foresight, the research and analysis arm of consulting firm Legacy Futures Group. The report factors…

Respondents from for-profit or commercial organizations acknowledge social responsibility concerns within their organizations at greater rates than those from nonprofits, according to a new survey. But any seeming disparity in results may be less the result of deficiencies in a nonprofit’s culture and more a tendency for social responsibility to already be ingrained in a nonprofit’s culture. Nearly six in 10 (59%) of nonprofit leaders…

Nonprofit leaders anticipate a strong 2022 fundraising year, with 70% having resumed face-to-face donor meetings or events as of November 2021, and a like percentage (69%) anticipating a bump in major gifts, according to Philanthropy Pulse, a report from New York City-based strategic consulting firm CCS Fundraising.  Respondents cited family foundations and donor-advised funds as the sources that loosened their purse strings during the past…