ARLINGTON, Va. â Despite the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, charitable giving grew by 7.6% during the first nine months of 2020 compared to the same time period in 2019, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Projectâs 2020 Third Quarter Report, which is administered by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Foundation for Philanthropy in collaboration with GivingTuesday. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project is the provider of the Growth in Giving Database, the world’s largest publicly available database of actual donations to nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada. The data are released both via quarterly reports and visible in a newly released online dashboard available at http://data.givingtuesday.org/fep-report. This new dashboard of report metrics is a result of ongoing collaboration among FEP partners to empower the sector to track and evaluate growth in giving.