

66% of donors have volunteered within the last 12 months.

Interestingly, 45% of online donors gave to nonprofits located outside of their country of residence - with Indian NGOs topping the list garnering 6% share of total online donors in 2017 (3). On average, nonprofits raise 7.6% of their total revenue online (2). Online fundraising is growing, slowly but steadily. “Participating in the GlobalGiving Accelerator is not an easy task - but it is not impossible,” said Mr.Sathyanand, Director at Tamuku.in (an initiative of Gateway Consultancy) who helped the two NGOs to register and participate in the Accelerator program. “We’re excited to welcome these 82 nonprofits to the GlobalGiving Community,” said Mari Kuraishi, President and Co-Founder of GlobalGiving. The Press release said, “They’ve each (82 NGOs) also met GlobalGiving’s rigorous vetting standards for trust and community support, and raised at least $5,000 from 40 donors in March 2017.” And it was a success!” he said.Įarlier HELP and Tharuni had participated in GlobalGiving’s Accelerator, a virtual training program and crowdfunding campaign that helps nonprofits take their online fundraising to the next level. “This was the first ever time, we did a online fundraising campaign. When Mr.Ram Mohan, Secretary of HELP, received an email from GlobalGiving stating that his NGO acquired permanent membership at GlobalGiving - he was elated. HELP and Tharuni - 2 NGOs from India were among them.

At Washington, DC, April 5, 2018, GlobalGiving published a press release (1) that 82 new NGOs have joined their platform as ‘permanent members’.
