Industry groups partner on fundraising data

• Date: 01 August 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30827
• Published date: 01 August 2020

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required to prove the defendant knew (or reasona-

bly should have known) about the harassment and

failed to take appropriate remedial action. He also

acknowledged that the defendant investigated several

of the plaintiff ’s complaints, but was troubled because

only one employee had ever been disciplined for the

alleged abuse.

In addition, the judge was concerned because: (1)

the plaintiff had led an internal DOT complaint

in February 2017 concerning the abuse, but the evi-

dence was unclear about whether the defendant ever

responded and (2) a supervisor was allegedly present

during some of the incidents.

EMPLOYEE WINS ➔ The judge denied the mo-

tion, ruling a jury would decide whether the defend-

ant (1) knew about a hostile work environment and

improved the situation and (2) exercised reasonable

care in the handling of the plaintiff ’s February 2017

internal complaint.

[Schaaf v. New York State Department of Transpor-

tation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District

of New York, No. 6:18-cv-00445, 01/22/20]. ■

News

Industry groups partner

on fundraising data

The Association of Fundraising Professionals

(AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy and GivingTues-

day will team up to produce and publish a series

of free fundraising reports using data from AFP’s

Fundraising Effectiveness Project platform.

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project was creat-

ed in 2004 to help nonprot organizations increase

giving at a faster pace by providing fundraisers with

tools for tracking and evaluating their annual growth

in giving. The latest data from the FEP show that

overall charitable giving dropped by 1.4% in 2019,

and the number of new donors to charities decreased

by 5.7%.

With that backdrop, the new reports will provide

data-backed insights on fundraising practices and

trends in giving to help fundraisers and charities

more effectively engage donors and supporters. The

GivingTuesday Data Commons, the data and insights

arm of GivingTuesday, will coordinate the data anal-

ysis for the reports, the organizations said.

The organizations will release more details on re-

port topics and publication schedule in the coming

weeks.

The latest reports, as well as more information about

the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, can be found at

http://afpfep.org.

Federal Reserve eyes expanding

loan program to nonprots

The Federal Reserve Board is mulling a propos-

al to expand its Main Street Lending Program to

provide access to credit for nonprot organizations.

As with the existing Main Street Lending Program,

which targets small and medium-sized businesses,

the proposed expansion would offer loans to small

and medium-sized nonprots that were in a sound

nancial condition before the coronavirus pandemic

and could benet from additional liquidity to manage

through this challenging period, the Federal Reserve

said in a statement.

Loan terms under the proposed Main Street non-

prot loans, including the interest rate, deferral of

principal and interest payments and ve-year term,

are the same as for Main Street business loans. The

minimum loan size would be $250,000, while the

maximum loan size would be $300 million. Princi-

pal payments would be fully deferred for the rst

two years of the loan, and interest payments would

be deferred for one year, the agency said. Borrower

eligibility requirements for the proposed nonprot fa-

cilities would be modied from the for-prot facilities

to reect the operational and accounting practices of

the nonprot sector and would include:

• a minimum of 50 and maximum of 15,000

employees;

• nancial thresholds based on operating perfor-

mance, liquidity and ability to repay debt;

• an operational history of at least ve years and

• a limit on endowments of no more than $3

billion.

Additionally, each organization must be a tax-ex-

empt organization under section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)

(19) of the Internal Revenue Code.

For more information about the proposal, visit

https://bit.ly/2Z1ae7Y. ■