# Survey looks at giving six months after tsunami appeals

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/05/31/survey-looks-giving-six-months-after-tsunami-appeals/
- Published: 2005-05-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Institute of Fundraising has launched the second and final stage of its research
project to track the impact of the tsunami appeal on fundraising organisations in
the UK.

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All nonprofit fundraising organisations in hte UK are invited to take part in the
project by completing a new online survey, identifying how the response to the tsunami
disaster has affected their fundraising over the past few months.

The first stage of the research was launched at the end of January, one month on
from the disaster. Nearly 300 fundraising organisations completed the survey, indicating
how they thought the fundraising appeals had affected them to date.

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This first stage of the research suggested that 84% of charities thought that the
tsunami appeal could, in some way, positively impact their organisation over the
long-term. However, they remained uncertain as to what the overall impact of the
event would be.

Only 56% of respondents made a prediction as to the overall impact, with 55% of 
those organisations thought the overall impact would be positive and 45% that the
overall impact would be negative.

Perhaps not surprisingly, more smaller charities, with a fundraising income of less
than £1 million, were concerned that there would be a potentially negative overall
long-term effect than larger charities. Only 24% of smaller charities, compared 
to 37.7% of larger charities, thought the overall long-term effect of the tsunami
appeal would be positive.

One representative from each fundraising organisation is invited to complete this
survey online before 15 June 2005.