During the beginning of crowdfunding, Blackbaud wrote a report in 2013, which explored that in the US, online giving grew 11% on a year-over-year basis. The percentage of total fundraising that comes from online giving was about 7% in 2012, and has grown considerably. This was an increase from 6% in 2011 and is nearing the record level of 8% from 2010 when online giving spiked in response to Haitian earthquake relief efforts. Steve MacLaughlin notes in the report that “the Internet has now become the first-response channel of choice for donors during disasters and other emergency events.”
During the beginning of crowdfunding, Blackbaud wrote a report in 2013, which explored that in the US, online giving grew 11% on a year-over-year basis. This was an increase from 6% in 2011 and is nearing the record level of 8% from 2010 when online giving spiked in response to Haitian earthquake relief efforts.
Charity Donation Statistics
- Giving to all nine major types of charitable organizations increased in 2016.
- Education giving saw relatively slower growth (3.6 percent) compared to the strong growth rates experienced in most post-recession years. In each of the years 2014 and 2015 education giving grew by more than 8 percent.
- Giving to international affairs, human services and public-society benefit organizations all grew. This growth is in spite of relatively few widely publicized natural disasters, which often increase contributions to these types of organizations.
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