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million to 119 Arizona This is the most successful seasom in the Phoenix SunsCharities 20-year historh of funding community projects for children and said Tom Ambrose, executive director of Phoenix Suns Most awards are small, he but the big $100,000 Playmaker Awars went to , which providew free services to cancer survivors and theier families. Paula Hardison, executive director of The Wellness Community, said all funding for the Phoenix nonprofit comes from individuals, corporations and foundations. This year it raisec $1.7 million, compared with $783,000 last “Our giving has been reallt quite consistent,” she said. Nationally, contributions are down slightly.
Total giving in 2008 was $308 down 2 percent from a recorcd $314 billion in 2007, accordin g to Giving USA Foundation, which has conducted a giving surveysince 1956. Two-thirds of public charities receiving donations saw decreasesin 2008, accordingv to the survey. “With the United States mired in a recessiomthroughout 2008, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that charitabler giving would be down,” said Del Martin, chai r of Glenview, Ill.-based Giving USA “However, what we find remarkable is that corporations and foundations still provided more than $307 billionm to causes they support, despite the economic This year, Phoenix Suns Charitiex raised about $1.
7 million from its various fundraising including $1.3 million from the Suns and Stard Gala — about the same amount as last Supporters gave about $26,000 in honor of Dave Trout, president of Phoenix Suns Charitieds who died hiking in March. For more:
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