The outlook for 2006 is shakier, if the economy falters,
I would assume that he would want to do something to demonstrate that he was being socially responsible through his giving ...
Giving is very directly tied to the economy. People's willingness to give as much as they possibly can is tied to whether they feel secure about their jobs and the fact that they are going to have to pay more in gas prices.
It does seem like they should have been straightforward about it.
It is definitely possible. It depends on what the government decides to do and how much more money is needed from the private sector, ... A lot of people wait until they are asked by a role model. Celebrities are very good at encouraging people to give to causes.
We really seem at a stage where growth is happening in a fairly spectacular way.
Usually we have these kinds of donations in the later part of the year, so people feel it's going to be a very strong year.
Usually these big bequests happen because people donate all their money when they die, and when they're alive, they give smaller amounts.
The Red Cross is getting the lion's share of the money,
The scale of this disaster is so big, that there is certainly going to be a lot of effort by the charities to call attention to long-term needs. So I would expect that giving will go in waves for quite a long period of time.
People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.
After you see the pictures on the television I think that just motivated so many people to give. They just saw they had a responsibility to do something.
a very remarkable outpouring, but compared to the amount of need . . . there's still a fund-raising challenge ahead.
As people see the extent of the damage, they're likely to keep giving in big ways.
This is a big giving time of the year when a lot of donors are making decisions about where their charitable donations will go, and now they might wonder whether their contributions were well-used.
A lot of nonprofits have been very aggressive about letting people know that everyone has some assets they can leave. And it's paying off.
It seems to be a phenomenal year. Donor fatigue is something not many charities are seeing.
The Internet definitely helped tsunami giving. It may make people more comfortable with online giving in the future.
I really think the biggest reason has got to be people seeing government agencies not doing the right thing, ... and that drove them to support a private response and do it quickly by sending it online.
These are people who otherwise don't get a lot of attention for their giving, or anything else, have a lot of money and are using it philanthropically. One of the challenges of compiling the list is that a lot of people don't want to talk about it.
The economy is always the most important thing in terms of fundraising,
The economy is strong enough that people are giving in a large way.
