Report shows DAF donors revising strategies in pandemic
Published date | 01 February 2021 |
Date | 01 February 2021 |
DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30944 |
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benets intact. But he said the plaintiff was instead
required to prove (1) she engaged in a protected
activity, (2) the employer took an adverse employ-
ment action against her and (3) there was a causal
connection between the protected activity and the
adverse action.
EMPLOYER WINS ➔ He ruled the plaintiff
hadn’t met her burden because (1) the alleged mis-
steps didn’t amount to an adverse action against
her, (2) there wasn’t any evidence suggesting a
causal connection existed between any failures and
the plaintiff’s report to human resources and (3) the
plaintiff’s voluntary resignation wasn’t an adverse
employment action.
Although he allowed other parts of the suit to
proceed, the judge granted a summary judgment in
favor of the county on the retaliation claim.
[Willis v. Cleveland County, U.S. District Court for
the Western District of North Carolina, No. 1:18-cv-
00292, 07/01/2020] ■
News
EveryAction acquires event
management platform Mobilize
EveryAction, a leading customer relation-
ship-management technology provider to the
nonprot sector, has acquired Mobilize, an events
management and volunteer recruitment platform
that connects mission-driven organizations and their
supporters. According to EveryAction, the acquisi-
tion will allow organizations to take advantage of
“complementary best-in-class systems” for online
and ofine organizing, virtual events management
and workow automation.
Mobilize is one of the fastest-growing volunteer
network and events platforms for mission-driven
organizations, having built a platform for volunteer
engagement that presents service opportunities for
volunteers and elevates these events to their shared
volunteer network. This will help provide additional
insight into supporters within the EveryAction plat-
form, so that nonprots can understand what drives
their supporters to engage, volunteer, donate and take
action. Nonprots are then able to tailor opportuni-
ties based on interest and history of engagement, the
company said.
Mobilize currently has a network of 3,000 or-
ganizations and 4 million volunteers. By combining
that audience with EveryAction’s network of more
than 15,000 nonprot organizations, nonprots and
campaigns should see higher conversion rates and
more holistic engagement from their supporters, the
rm said.
For more information about the transaction and the
services offered by the combined company, visit https://
www.everyaction.com.
Report shows DAF donors revising
strategies in pandemic
A new report from Fidelity Charitable, an admin-
istrator of the nation’s largest donor-advised fund,
states that the coronavirus pandemic drove nearly
half of the DAF account holders to give more in
2020 than in the prior year. Per the report, about
three-quarters said COVID-19 affected their decision
of which organizations to support. And of those,
37% gave to different nonprots than usual, whereas
a similar number supported the nonprots they have
typically supported in the past.
Nearly all—92%—of those who gave to new or-
ganizations in 2020 also made or planned to make
donations to the charities they regularly supported.
The report also gives insight into which types of
nonprots are seeing the most support from DAF
donors. For example, 54% of those whose giving was
inuenced by the pandemic sought specically to
help nonprots most affected by it. Most of these do-
nors—84%—were more concerned about the ability
of small, community-based nonprots to weather the
pandemic, whereas 43% showed concern for larger,
national nonprots.
According to Amy Pirozzolo, head of donor en-
gagement at Fidelity Charitable, the report shows that
the increase in donations to human services charities
didn’t mean fewer donations to other organizations,
as was feared by some.
“Donors understand that all charities face unprec-
edented demands, and giving strategies meaningfully
changed,” she said in a statement.
For more information, visit https://bit.
ly/2LGwbGa. ■
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