The average donor gave $150.
It seemed to work, with 3.5m becoming donors, with the average donor giving more than once.
We cannot expect that the average donor will have their views changed on overheads if it isn't charities that tell them.
But when you talk to the average donor, they're really happy that someone is articulating their feelings and sticking by their guns".
The average donor at Cryos can assume he has fathered 25 children, but Simon is likely to have more than 100 offspring.
But contributions to the A.L.S. Association have stayed about twenty-five per cent higher than in the year before the challenge, and the average donor age dropped from above fifty to thirty-five.
Mr. Romney received contributions from about 32,000 people and Mr. Giuliani from about 28,000, although in each case their average donor gave more than twice as much as Mr. McCain's.
The truth is that to the rest of the media, average donor or member of the public, charity anniversaries are deeply dull (the only exception I am aware of was the Scouts' centenary celebration in 2007, which was hugely successful).
"You can build compassion for certain things, but there are things we work with like substance abuse, child abuse and domestic violence that the average donor just can't relate to," Ms. Barrios-Paoli, the former nun, said.
