Subject: How the Pandemic Has Transformed Giving — and What's Next Welcome to Fundraising Update. This week, we take a look at how the pandemic has transformed philanthropy and what's ahead. Plus, we check in on how the 30 biggest fundraising events in which donors raise money for charity fared last year. I’m Emily Haynes, a staff writer at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, filling in for Eden Stiffman while she chips away at an upcoming cover story. If you have ideas, comments, or questions about this newsletter, please write me at emily.haynes@philanthropy.com. A Monumental Year of Giving New data from the research groups Candid and the Center on Disaster Philanthropy sketch the scale of giving last year, my colleague Alex Daniels reports. The total is monumental. Donors gave $20.2 billion in response to the pandemic and racial-justice protests last year — more than double the amount given to the previous top 10 disasters combined, according to preliminary estimates released today.