Funding support from corporate and individual givings remains an undeveloped area and the amounts raised by CSOs from these sources are also relatively insignificant. An analysis made by Institute for Sustainable Communities of around 200 CSOs in Macedonia, observed that only 5% of their funds come from business.

CSOs need to build their skills to generate resources locally and to take advantage (or lobby for improvement of) of the Law on Donations and Sponsorships for Public Activities, which has so far not facilitated an increase in charitable giving. Corporate Social Responsibility is still not an integral part of business strategies and consequently neither is corporate giving.

The number of people giving charity has increased in 2009, from 64.6% in 2008 to 70.9% in 2009, but it is still lower than in 2006 (75.5%). Besides claiming of the citizens that they give charity has growing there is no evident increase of portion of the individual donation in the budgets of civil society organizations. The first priority of citizens in charity giving is the social care or humanitarian purposes. In addition citizens prefer to give directly and in hand and give small amounts (1.5-8 EUR). There are efforts by CSOs to organize fundraising activities e.g. auctions, cash boxes, teledonations etc.