Robert Weiner

JULY 3, 2009

overall in 2008. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 million in 2007). Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7%

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 This was a two percent drop in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation) compared to 2007’s $314.07 percent compared with 2007 estimates (-6.3 Taking inflation into account, U.S.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 25, 2009

Convio has released a new online fundraising benchmark report that is based on data from 600 of Convio’s nonprofit clients from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008. Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

M+R Strategic Services says that although the economy is down, online giving is up (as of November 2008). Their analysis showed: read more.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The information below was current as of December 15, 2008. In September 2007 M:Metrics, a mobile advertising analysis firm, observed, "[W]hile the volume of SMS ads is lowest in the United States, with only 17.2 Sarah granted me permission to share her findings with the world.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has just published Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study by Eric Mattson and Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D.

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