The Community Foundation of Utah switched its popular annual day of fundraising — Love Utah Give Utah — from March to November this year, ditched its central donation platform and did away with its online “leaderboard” that encouraged a little friendly competition among the state’s nonprofits.
With those changes — and likely because of them — the number of participating charities fell by 14 percent, from 451 organizations in 2017 to 386 this year.
The foundation doesn’t know yet how much money was raised by those who participated; it won’t start gathering that information until midweek and doesn’t expect totals for at least two weeks.