Greenpeace NZ ups campaigning, pays global HQ more as fundraising improves

Greenpeace NZ ups campaigning, pays global HQ more as fundraising improves
By Jonathan Underhill July 15 (BusinessDesk) – Greenpeace New Zealand, the local arm of the global environmental lobby group, spent more on national campaigns and lifted its contribution to head office in Amsterdam after a jump in its fundraising surplus. The group’s 2012 annual report shows it raised $5.4 million in calendar 2012, from $4.87 million a year earlier. That’s the second-best year for fund raising in at least a decade after the group raised $5.76 million in 2010. New Zealanders dug deeper into their pockets in 2012 as the group...