Today I saw the quote on Wikipedia:" As a professional scientist Wikipedia is my go to source for ideas and concepts new to me. Donate for this? You bet."
This of course resonates with me, profoundly. I'm not embarrassed to say that I frequently check wikipedia for a jump off point on things I need to get a feel for or brush up on. Beyond my job, this blog probably runs mostly off a handful of sites, Wikipedia being the main one after google. And it is a non-profit.
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.Donate now if you used Wikipedia a tenth as much as I do. What are your favorite charities?
Beyond that, I was wondering about trends in donation.
According to this article on About.com (another great go-to) from a study done by Networkforgood.org:
- Online donors tend to be young with a median age of 38. Offline donors tend to be over the age of 60.
- More than half of online donors are female and most have given to a charity before.
- The online donors at Network for Good seem to be more generous than traditional donors, giving on average $137 in 2005. That is much more than the industry standard of $27.
- The most generous online donors came from Washington, D.C., New York, and Connecticut.
- Half of Network for Good's donors gave to 1 percent of the charities, focusing on giants such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army. The rest, however, spread their gifts around and favored small and mid-sized nonprofits. When disaster-relief groups are removed, almost seven in 10 donor dollars went to small and mid-sized groups.
- Most popular organizations in 2005 were disaster relief and international groups with $24.5 million going to tsunami relief, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistani earthquake. Animal-related organizations ranked third, followed by human services and education.
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