The Giving USA Foundation provides this information to help nonprofit organizations learn more about and understand factors that affect fundraising success and to contribute to the historical record about charitable giving in the United States. Giving USA will help your organization:

• Benchmark fundraising performance against national data;
• Plan for the future, based on long-term trends in giving;
• Educate new staff members and board members in the broad context of philanthropic giving, so that they may have a better understanding of the organization?s funding patterns;
• Include up-to-date information about philanthropy overall and by subsector in speeches, publications, press releases, and internal communications; and
• Learn about and access recent studies and other resources that can help strengthen your fundraising, grantmaking, or other philanthropic activity

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