GOOD To Know: A New Blog Series

For Goodness Sake strives in every way to be a community supporting accessibility, education and empowerment for doing good and giving back.

This is why we’ve started a new series on our blog called GOOD To Know.  Every week we’ll post articles, events, and profiles of people and companies in our communities doing good and giving back.

To kick things off, we have a few articles about recent philanthropic news that we’ve enjoyed reading that we’d love to share with you and start a discussion about.  Enjoy!

Sincerely,

For Goodness Sake

Giving USA

In 2014, charitable giving in the US rose above 5%, marking an important increase in American philanthropy. This 2009-2014 post-recession giving growth is the fastest on record in the past 40 years, with each 1% increase representing an increase of $17 billion dollars. While living individuals provide the majority of charitable donations, they’re not increasing their giving nearly as fast as corporations and foundations are. At the top of the growth list of charity beneficiaries were the arts, culture, and humanities groups, with a 7.4-percent increase in giving. Environment and animal causes together were the second fastest-growing cause, with over a 5 percent increase in giving.

Myelin Foundation

The Myelin Repair Foundation, a pivotal Bay Area non-profit at the forefront of pioneering new ways to speed promising multiple-sclerosis treatments into clinical trials, announced that it will close at the end of August 2015. Despite tremendous success on the research front, current fundraising efforts have failed to meet the organization’s current needs for the fiscal year, forcing the foundation into early closure.

Love Wins

The momentous freedom-to-marry Supreme Court decision has marked an important success in the impact of philanthropic campaigns. How can we use philanthropy to advance social change? Finding a cause, sticking with it, and giving early are among the important lessons learned from the Freedom to Marry campaign. Financing smart strategies and maintaining support during inevitable crises help keep the cause afloat and bring the cause into actionable reality.