I wanted to do something different so I decided to look at an article instead of commenting on someone else’s blog. I found the NonProfit Times! How cool, check it out! An article I found within the compilation of articles was about donors this holiday season (again a reoccurring topic). All in all, women plan to donate more than men, 54% to 48%. This figure happens to correspond with the fact that women generally volunteer more often within the nonprofit sector. A cool thing that I found was that people planned on donating online (maybe on Oxfam America Unwrapped, hint hint, look at my last EL blog posting). Among those donating online, a large majority of them were of the ages of 18 to 34, maybe because a HUGE portion of us are already online anyways. Surprisingly, “46% of the group who said their financial situation became substantially worse during the past 12 months still plan to donate online this holiday season.” So according to this, despite the economic situation of the country, people still plan to donate this holiday season. AWESOME! I know we talked about the nonprofit sector struggling because of the economy, but this article gives hope. The figures, I am assuming are only assumptions, but if people want to help, maybe if they cannot help by donating money, they can donate their time by volunteering instead. Check out the article, the URL is below.
http://www.nptimes.com/08Oct/news-081027-1.html
