Wise Giving Wednesday: Breast Cancer Awareness
Before October comes to a close, I wanted to honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the campaign to raise awareness for the prevention, treatment and...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Charities & 2019 Data Privacy Day
This past Monday, January 28th, was Data Privacy Day which has been observed in the U.S. and Canada since...
Ethical Lessons for Philanthropy from Baseball
Twenty-five years ago, on August 23, 1989, the Commissioner of baseball decided that Cincinnati Reds baseball player Pete Rose would receive a lifetime ban...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Charity Accountability and Terrorist Financing Issues
Last week, I was in Berlin, Germany participating in the Annual Meeting of the International Committee on Fundraising Organizations (ICFO) which is an international...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Some Regional Charities Experiencing Giving Shortfalls
During the week of Thanksgiving, the Washington Post released a story explaining that a number of factors are impacting charitable contributions at regional charities...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Diversity in Donor Trust and Giving
The ability of charitable organizations to thrive in the future is closely tied to their ability to understand how rising, and more diverse, generations...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Sexual Harassment and Charities
On Monday, we released the Give.org Donor Trust Special Report: Sexual Harassment and the Charitable Sector.
Wise Giving Wednesday: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. These events, which have taken place for several decades, have helped raise funds for numerous charities seeking to...
Do People Trust Charities? Study by BBB’s Give.org Uncovers Pitfalls
Public Misconceptions Make Donors Vulnerable and Can Lead to Faulty Giving...
Wise Giving Wednesday: Charities and Data Privacy Day
January 28, 2016 is Data Privacy Day which commemorates the signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and...
Helen O’Rourke McClary
Helen O’Rourke McClary, who helped establish and grow one of our predecessor organizations, the Philanthropic Advisory Service of the Council of Better Business Bureaus,...
Wise Giving Wednesday: When appeals claim a donation can double a charity’s impact
In the past twenty years, the issue of a charity’s impact has received increased attention for a variety of reasons.