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How Pervasive Are Abuses in Fundraising Among Nonprofits
Abstract
This article explores selected fundraising information for
charitable nonprofits, asking whether widespread abuses might exist
in this sector. After examining the pervasiveness of fundraising and
its relation to mission, we show that a few nonprofits raise a
majority of sector charitable revenues, and we present the ratio of
funds raised to funds spent on fundraising by mission categories. We
find that 72 percent of charitable nonprofits do not report direct
fundraising expenditures, 5 percent of the active fundraising
nonprofits obtain 90 percent of total funds raised, mission is
related to a nonprofit's ability to raise funds, the median
nonprofit spends about 9.6 percent of total raised funds for
fundraising, and only one in five nonprofits hires a professional
fundraiser. At least in terms of the measures used in this report,
widespread abuses are not obvious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Journal
(1998)
vol9
no2
pages211
Categories
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Fundraising
