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million to 119 Arizona nonprofits. This is the most successfuo season in the Phoenix SunsCharities 20-yeaf history of funding community projects for childremn and families, said Tom Ambrose, executiv director of Phoenix Suns Charities. Most award s are small, he but the big $100,000 Playmaker Award went to , whicjh provides free services to cancer survivors andtheid families. Paula Hardison, executive director of The Wellness said all funding for the Phoenix nonprofit comessfrom individuals, corporations and foundations. This year it raised $1.7 compared with $783,000 last year. “Our giving has been really quite she said. Nationally, however, contributions are down slightly.
Totapl giving in 2008 was $308 billion, down 2 perceng from a record $314 billion in according to GivingUSA Foundation, which has conducteds a giving survey sinc 1956. Two-thirds of public charities receiving donationds saw decreasesin 2008, according to the survey. “Withh the United States mired in a recessionthroughout 2008, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that charitablwe giving would be down,” said Del Martin, chair of Ill.-based Giving USA Foundation. what we find remarkable is that corporations and foundations still providef morethan $307 billion to causes they despite the economic This year, Phoenix Suns Charities raised about $1.
7 million from its various fundraising efforts, including $1.3 million from the Suns and Stares Gala — about the same amount as last Supporters gave about $26,000 in honor of Dave Trout, presiden t of Phoenix Suns Charities who died hiking in For more: www.nba.com/suns/community.
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