Fresh Research, a NonProfit Times Podcast

Fresh Research, a NonProfit Times Podcast episodes:

• 04.06.2022

  Episode 50: Best Nonprofits To Work For 2022

  “Employees are the most important thing to the success of our business so if allocating resources there is going to make a difference in achieving our mission and achieving our  goals, we’re going to allocate resources there,” Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, CEO...

  
• 03.23.2022

  Episode 49: Dan David Prize Winner Tyrone Freeman

  A woman builds a business empire and then goes on to give away millions of dollars to charity. It’s not an unusual story, at least not today — but if the woman was an African-American during the Jim Crow era? https://thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fresh-Research-E49.mp3 Madam...

  
• 02.18.2022

  Episode 48: Endowing Black-Led Nonprofits

  Endowments are a common form of giving to higher education, arts , and medical research organizations. https://thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Fresh-Research-E48-Endow-Black-Led-Nonprofits.mp3 William Foster, managing partner, and Darren Isom, partner, of The Bridgespan Group, analyzed the investment income of 56 nonprofits dedicated to social change. Between 2000...

  
• 12.22.2021

  Episode 47: Navigating the Notches

  An increase from 3 to 4 stars on Charity Navigator can be associated with a 6% rise in contributions. For smaller charities, the impact can be as much as 11%. That’s not too surprising but what about when ratings drop?...

  
• 11.29.2021

  Bonus Episode: #GivingTuesday 2021

  #GivingTuesday in 2020 raised an estimated $2.47 billion both online and offline, which was up 25% from $1.97 billion in 2019. Almost 35 million people participated in 2020. What’s on tap for 2021? According to Woodrow Rosenbaum, that’s up to nonprofits....

  
• 11.16.2021

  Episode 46: The 2021 NPT 100

  MacKenzie Scott’s billions of dollars in mega gifts and American donors’ response to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) fueled the largest charities in the United States last year. https://thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fresh-Research-E46-2021-NPT-100.mp3 The 2021 NPT 100 ranks the largest nonprofits in the U.S. that derive at...

  
• 10.21.2021

  Episode 45: The Charitable Tax Deduction & Civic Engagement

  Nonprofits have been pushing for a universal charitable deduction for years. The CARES Act created a temporary tax deduction for charitable gifts up to $300 for single or married filers in 2020. Congress extended that into 2021 and increased the...

  
• 09.15.2021

  Episode 44: Regulating CEO Pay

  When the Nonprofit Revitalization Act passed in 2013, it was the first major overhaul of nonprofit regulations in New York State in 40 years. The legislation modernized rules around nonprofit boards and committees and, among other things, prohibited nonprofit officers...

  
• 08.18.2021

  Episode 43: Checking Out Charity

  You finish up your shopping and the cashier asks, “Would you like to donate to a local charity?” Do you give? If you do, how much? Or maybe they ask you, would you like to round up your total to...

  
• 07.14.2021

  Episode 42: Bitcoin and the Future Of Fundraising

  The American Cancer Society aims to raise $1 million exclusively through cryptocurrency. Its Cancer Crypto Fund will be renamed in honor of the first donor to contribute $250,000. Donations of at least $10,000 will appear on the Cancer Crypto Fund...

  
• 06.16.2021

  Episode 41: Multi-Channel Donor Communications

  Research shows that multi-channel donors can be worth more than donors who give only online or only offline. But do nonprofits treat multi-channel donors like they’re worth two or three times more to their organization? A recent experiment looked at...

  
• 05.21.2021

  Episode 40: The Great DAF Debate

  Donor-advised funds (DAF) have dominated philanthropy in any number of ways over the past decade, whether it’s increasing charitable contributions, boosting assets, or simply garnering attention within the public square. https://thenonprofittimes.s3.amazonaws.com/fresh-research-podcast/FreshResearchEpisode40.mp3 That could be why it takes a super sized episode of...

  
• 04.21.2021

  Episode 39: Best Nonprofits To Work For 2021

  Even for the Best Nonprofits To Work For, 2020 was a difficult year. The United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Section (USTA MAS) rarely has any voluntary turnover among its 21 employees. But like at many nonprofits, the pandemic forced difficult...

  
• 04.07.2021

  Episode 38: A Year Into The Pandemic

  For a lot of nonprofits, it’s been a year of working remotely, replacing in-person events with virtual events and trying to make it through the next quarter. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Pam Keough would have described herself as one of...

  
• 03.23.2021

  Episode 37: Outlook for Charitable Giving

  Early indicators show that charitable giving was up in 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Projections for giving in 2021 and 2022 are even rosier. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/22102259/Fresh-Research-Episode-37-Una-Osili.Outlook-for-giving.mp3 Charitable giving is expected to increase 4.1% this year, buoyed by individual giving (+6%), and...

  
• 03.10.2021

  Episode 36: Blackbaud Institute Charitable Giving Report

  Overall giving rose 2% in 2020 compared to 2019 while online donations grew 21%, according to the Blackbaud Institute Charitable Giving Report. Steve MacLaughlin, vice president, production management, at Blackbaud, visits this episode of the Fresh Research podcast to break down...

  
• 02.17.2021

  Episode 35: 2020 Donor-Advised Fund Report

  Donor-advised funds (DAF) in 2019 continued their meteoric growth over the past decade and in the first half of 2020 — amidst the coronavirus pandemic — grantmaking by DAFs increased by almost 30 percent. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/16125534/Fresh-Research-E35-Eileen-Heisman.NPTrust.mp3 The 2020 Donor-Advised Fund Report is the...

  
• 01.19.2021

  Episode 34: Nonprofit Jobs Report

  Since 1.6 million nonprofit jobs were lost in the three months after the pandemic was declared, steady growth in nonprofit jobs each month was derailed in December, wiping out nearly two months of gains. It’s projected to take 1.5 years...

  
• 12.16.2020

  Episode 33: Effects of overhead on donor decisions

  If there was a list of dirty words for the nonprofit sector, overhead would likely be number one on the list. In spite of efforts like The Overhead Myth, it can still be a source of frustration for nonprofit employees...

  
• 11.18.2020

  Episode 32: The 2020 NPT 100

  The nation’s largest nonprofits reported aggregate revenue of $86.4 billion in 2019, which is up 1 percent over the previous year. Those figures come from The NonProfit Times‘ 2020 NPT 100 report, a study of the largest nonprofits in the...

  
• 10.14.2020

  Episode 31: Unlocking Generosity with AI

  The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is exploding and the next few years will be huge for nonprofits in adopting the technology as a strategic tool, from the program side to the fundraising side. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/12220749/Fresh-Research-E31.AI4Giving.mp3 Authors Beth Kanter and Allison Fine join...

  
• 09.15.2020

  Episode 30: Charitable Estate Gifts

  It’s nothing new to fundraisers and planned gift officers that women and childless couples are the prime prospects for bequests and other estate gifts. New research suggests that those are still huge factors in the process but timing your nonprofit’s...

  
• 08.19.2020

  Episode 29: Charity Navigator Encompass Rating System

  Charity Navigator this month unveiled the first pillar of its new rating system. Years in the making, the Encompass Rating System (ERS) expands the number of charities rated from 9,000 to almost 160,000. President and CEO Michael Thatcher joins the Fresh...

  
• 07.14.2020

  Episode 28: How Civic Engagement Changes in Times of Crisis

  The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the nonprofit sector in a number of ways. What effect COVID-19 might have on charitable behavior, like volunteering, remains to be seen. In this episode, we talk to Nathan Dietz, associate research scholar at the...

  
• 06.17.2020

  Episode 27: Generosity Across Income And Wealth

  The percentage of household income given to charity each year generally runs about 2 percent across most income levels, but goes up with wealth, according to a new research paper. https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/15184659/Fresh-Research-Episode-27.BenPriday.mp3   Credit: Jules Photo & Design Benjamin Priday, a Ph.D. candidate in the...

  
• 05.26.2020

  Episode 26: Best Nonprofits To Work For

  “I feel I am valued in this organization.” “I can trust what this organization tells me.” “Most days, I feel I have made progress at work.” Those are three of the top 10 drivers identified in the 2020 Best Nonprofits To Work For....

  
• 04.29.2020

  Episode 25: Coronavirus And Your Message To Donors

  http://thenonprofittimes.s3.amazonaws.com/fresh-research-podcast/Fresh%20Research%20E25.Messaging%20donors%20during%20COVID%20%28Webinar%29.mp3 Regular programming for the Fresh Research podcast has been pre-empted this month to tackle the the issue that has impacted life worldwide the past few weeks: the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The NonProfit Times recently hosted a webinar on mail and...

  
• 02.19.2020

  Episode 24: Appeals to Donor Benefits Versus Recipient Benefits

  https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/19145052/Fresh-Research.Episode-24.John-List.mp3 This episode of Fresh Research tackles the options when it comes to donors appeals. Should your appeal take aim at the donor and benefits to them, or instead remind them how their gift would benefit the community? John List, the Kenneth...

  
• 01.15.2020

  Episode 23: Do Thank You Calls Increase Charitable Giving?

  Thanking donors for their gifts may be the right thing to do but does it lead to more gifts or bigger donations in the future? A thank you call to a donor for their gift may be just polite and...

  
• 12.11.2019

  Episode 22: The Women & Girls Index

  https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11104122/Fresh-Research-Episode-22.mp3 About $1.60 of every $100 in charitable giving in the United States goes to an organization exclusively dedicated to women and girls. A new report estimates that more than 45,000 nonprofit organizations are dedicated to women and girls and receive...

  
• 11.20.2019

  Episode 21: #GivingTuesday

  #GivingTuesday will be here before you know it. The Tuesday after Thanksgiving — this year, Dec. 3 — is when the charitable sector has come together to help offset the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. #GivingTuesday last year...

  
• 10.30.2019

  Episode 20: Effects of Tax Reform on Itemizers

  https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/31120653/Fresh-Research-Episode-20.mp3 The number of taxpayers who itemized last year has been in steep decline, according to the latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data. Why? And why is that important? Well, most charitable giving in the U.S. comes from itemizers. The Tax...

  
• 07.17.2019

  Episode 18: A Closer Look At 2018 Giving

  Giving USA estimated that charitable giving in the United States was $427.71 billion overall in 2018, a less-than-1-percent increase over the $424.74 billion for 2017, according to preliminary estimates from “Giving USA 2019: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the...

  
• 06.12.2019

  Episode 17: Are Millennials Really So Selfish?

  Millennials often get blamed for killing entire industries, from cars and diamonds to malls, fast casual restaurants and cable television. Apparently, they spend so much on avocado toast that they can’t afford a mortgage (or that could be the result...

  
• 05.16.2019

  Episode 16: M+R Benchmarks Study

  http://thenonprofittimes.com/fresh-research-podcast/FreshResearchEpisode16.mp3 The 13th annual M+R Benchmarks Study is chock full of data almost as far as the eye can see. That’s what happens when you analyze 4.4 million emails sent to 37.5 million email addresses, more than 7 million online gifts...

  
• 04.17.2019

  Episode 15: Reciprocity Decays Over Time

  Episode 15: “Field study of charitable giving reveals that reciprocity decays over time” Waiting a month to ask for a gift decreases the likelihood of a donation by 30 percent. That’s according to research on positive reciprocity that looked at more...

  
• 03.27.2019

  Episode 14: Donor-Advised Fund Grants In A Recession

  Donor-Advised Fund Grants In A Recession Donor-Advised Funds (DAF) have become one of the fastest-growing vehicles for philanthropy over the past decade or more. They’ve also become a lightning rod in the debate about charitable giving. Some have gone so far as...

  
• 03.27.2019

  Episode 14: Donor-Advised Fund Grants During Recessions

  Episode 14: Donor-Advised Fund Grants During Recessions Donor-advised funds (DAF) have become one of the fastest-growing vehicles for philanthropy in the past decade. They also have become a lightning rod in the debate about charitable giving, described by skeptics as a “Wall Street takeover...

  
• 02.21.2019

  Episode 13: Anatomy of a Mega Merger

  Fresh Research Episode 13 – Brad Smith & Jacob Harold Two of the two largest data and information nonprofit organizations in the United States announced a merger on Feb. 1. The Foundation Center and GuideStar will become Candid after almost two years of discussions on a...

  
• 12.20.2018

  Episode 11: Volunteer Rates + The Philanthropic Closet

  https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/23120448/Fresh-Research-Episode-11.mp3 Part 1: Robert Grimm & Nathan Dietz Where are America’s volunteers? That’s literally the question posed, and answered, by a new study from the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy: “Where Are America’s Volunteers? A Look At America’s...

  
• 11.28.2018

  Episode 10: Executive Teams + Income Inequality

  https://media.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/23120724/Fresh-Research-Episode10.mp3 Part 1: Libbie Landles-Cobb Only about half of nonprofits surveyed agreed that their executive team communicates to others. Two-thirds agreed that their teams focus on the right work or use their time effectively. Now, that’s not Michael Scott-level executive management but...

  
• 10.24.2018

  Episode 9: Nonprofit Overhead + Global Trends in Giving

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Part 1: Jason Coupet and Jessica Haynie Nonprofit overhead seems to be the most popular way to evaluate nonprofits, although even watchdogs that made program and expense ratios a focus are trying to come...

  
• 09.15.2018

  Episode 8: Too Many Nonprofits? + Nonprofit Collaboration

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Part 1: Rebecca Nesbit and Laurie Paarlberg Hardly a day goes by when someone isn’t questioning whether there are too many nonprofits in the United States. True, there are more than 1.5 million organizations,...

  
• 08.15.2018

  Episode 7: Giving in Retirement + Effective Altruism

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Some 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day for at least the next decade, and those older than 65 already represent about 15 percent of the total population. With that in mind, the...

  
• 07.17.2018

  Episode 6: Donor Retention + Diversity In Nonprofit Tech

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Online fundraising trends continue to point to growth within mobile, so it’s not a surprise to see another study confirming what’s been happening of late. “The State of Modern Philanthropy: Examining Online Fundraising Trends,” from...

  
• 06.12.2018

  Episode 5: New Giving USA Numbers + Diversity In Nonprofit Leadership

  Your browser does not support the audio element. A flurry of natural disasters, a booming stock market and strong economy, and more mega gifts all contributed to another record year for charitable giving in 2017. Charitable giving in the United States hit...

  
• 05.16.2018

  Episode 4: Mobile Trends + Jewish Philanthropy

  Your browser does not support the audio element. The M+R Benchmarks Report has become one of the most anticipated studies of the year. For more than a decade, it has tracked trends and data for nonprofits, ranging from email open and response...

  
• 04.18.2018

  Episode 3: Founder Transitions + Studying Millennials

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Conventional wisdom has always suggested that a nonprofit make a clean break from its founder, to avoid the dreaded “Founder’s Syndrome.” But according to research by Jari Tuomala and Donald Yeh of The Bridgespan Group, organizations...

  
• 02.21.2018

  Episode 1: Donor Perceptions + How Wealthy Women Donate

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Ron Sellers of Grey Matter Research talks about donor perceptions of nonprofits based on their size, from findings in Part V of “The Donor Mindset Study: How Donors See Large Versus Small Organizations.”...