Major aid charities have more than tripled their spending on fundraising over the past decade amid a boom in international aid and fierce competition to draw donors, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reports. Total spending by the world’s 50 largest humanitarian nonprofits has more than doubled in 10 years to $18 billion, as more public money is channeled to relief work in disaster and conflict zones, according to the foundation’s inaugural Business of Aid survey.
The survey found that major aid groups put almost $1.5 billion, 6.6 percent of their total spending, into soliciting in 2013-14, compared to about $500 million (5.8 percent) in 2003-04. ActionAid spent the highest share on fundraising (17.4 percent), followed by Plan International (14.2 percent) and Médecins Sans Frontières (13.8 percent). An ActionAid representative said that “for every dollar we invest in fundraising we see a return of nearly five times that much that we spend on transforming people’s lives.”
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