Can you guess what percentage of volunteers donate?
Sophie Penney Leach
President, i5 Fundraising Teaching, coaching, and consulting for nonprofits seeking to engage donors in providing beneficiary and community-driven, life-changing, and sometimes life-saving, programs and projects.
As we reach the end of the year we are all busy so this week's post will be brief. Please let me introduce you to the Volunteering & Civic Engagement website produced by the Corporation for National & Community Service.
What percentage of volunteers donate?
Just shy of 80% of individuals who volunteered
from 2013-2015 said they contributed to charity.
What about those who don't volunteer?
Just about half as many people who don't volunteer
with a nonprofit, 40%, contribute to a nonprofit.
Source: https://www.nationalservice.gov/vcla/national
Are you soliciting your volunteers? If not year-end is an excellent time to thank volunteers for their gifts of time and talent and to ask if they might also contribute financial resources.
Sophie W. Penney, Ph.D. is the President of i5 Fundraising and the Senior Program Coordinator and Lecturer for Penn State's all online Postbaccalaureate Certificate Program in Fundraising Leadership.
Guiding non-profit leaders to fulfill THEIR dreams | Advocating for environmental and racial justice | Finding sustenance on the water | Teaching Empowerment Self-Defense
7 年What percent of volunteers donate to the charity where they volunteer?
Guiding non-profit leaders to fulfill THEIR dreams | Advocating for environmental and racial justice | Finding sustenance on the water | Teaching Empowerment Self-Defense
7 年What percent of volunteers are donating to the charity where they volunteer?
Sr. Director of Planned Giving @Earthjustice | Opinions are my own
7 年Spot on. Volunteerism programs do so much more than just help organizations with extra assistance for staffing events!
Director Of Finance And Operations at NTEN
7 年I became a board member of Friends of the Multnomah County Library because I was a volunteer, a member, then a donor & fundraising advocate. I strongly agree that orgs need to look at their most dedicated volunteers for support.
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7 年And so many are wealthy. In fact volunteerism is the gateway drug to major and legacy giving.