The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving, a broad-based fundraising index that reports overall giving trends of 2,878 US-based nonprofit organizations representing $8 billion in yearly giving on a monthly basis, reported that charitable giving decreased 3.4% for the three months ending August 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

GIVINGtrax, the giving marketplace  for collaborative and transparent philanthropy, today launched the beta of their cloud-based marketplace which unites businesses and non-profits with employees and customers, to enhance the ease and impact of charitable giving.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS have recommended a significant change in the process for determining whether a foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO) meets U.S. standards for charitable giving. In "Reliance Standards for Making Good Faith Determinations," a document published today in the Federal Register, Treasury and the IRS have proposed regulations that lessen the administrative and financial burdens for U.S. grantmakers to engage in international philanthropy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the guidance in an address at the Clinton Global Initiative, during which she unveiled the Global Philanthropy Working Group.

The Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC) finds a direct association between active fundraising by nonprofit board members and the organization meeting its fundraising goals. Sixty percent of organizations where board members help with fundraising met their 2011 fundraising goal, compared with just 53 percent of organizations without board member engagement, a statistically significant difference given the sample size.