# Scale of US giving online

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/28/scale-us-giving-online/
- Published: 2001-03-28T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

James E. Austin, chair of the Initiative on Social Enterprise and the McLean Professor
of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, offers some statistics
on online giving in the USA in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. “In 1999,” he writes,“
according to estimates by the Initiative on Social Enterprise, about 4 percent of
donors contributed

 

 

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online, giving about $10-million. In 2000, online donors gave an estimated $250-
million. The Initiative on Social Enterprise projects that by 2010 one-third of 
money donated will be given online.”

 

 

 

 

The full article, The E-Philanthropy Revolution Is Here to Stay, is published in
the 8 March issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, but is available only to paying
subcribers.

 

 

 

 

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