Ken Goldstein, MPPA

Ken Goldstein has been working in nonprofits and local government agencies from Santa Cruz, to Sacramento, and back to Silicon Valley, since 1989. He's been staff, volunteer, board member, executive director, and, since 2003, a consultant to local nonprofit organizations. For more on Ken's background, click here. If you are interested in retaining Ken's services, you may contact him at ken at goldstein.net.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Money is Easier than Helping

A new study by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans finds that most Americans find donating money to a charity to be easier than volunteering, and would rather write a check than help you out with physical tasks.

Still, in 2005 more than half of Americans did some volunteer work (57%), including 75% of people with household incomes of $75,000.

This is good news for your fundraising efforts. If these statistics are right, then it should be easier to ask for a donation than to recruit volunteers, and easier yet to find wealthier donors.

See Americans flip-flop on volunteerism on the Thrivent web site for the full press release regarding the survey results.

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