Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. Chad Norman, Blackbaud. 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman, Blackbaud. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. Blackbaud hasn’t been doing so well , in the stock price department either. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. Here's your official wake-up call.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5%

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

2008 Online Giving Trends - Connections - Want to compare your 2008 numbers/results to other organizations? Check out this post which "shares some very early online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. This information comes from approximately 2,000 nonprofit organizations using Blackbaud's Internet solutions."

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

30 Setup Fee : Free Commitment : None Integrations : Tight integrations with Bloomerang, Venmo, PayPal, Stripe, Bloomerang, ThankView, Double the Donation, Wix, SquareSpace, WordPress, Zapier, Omatic (ImportOmatic for Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT). Platform Fee : Free Transaction Fee : 2.9% + $.30 MobileCause. Platform Fee: 2.5%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. And Blackbaud may well be shaking in their boots. I’ve got to catch up.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Steve MacLoughlin, Blackbaud. Blackbaud has been actively engaged in researching and analyzing trends in the nonprofit sector for quite a while. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Average Online Gift Trends.

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AFP Blog

JULY 10, 2008

Blackbaud Completes Acquisition of Kintera - FOXBusiness.com: "CHARLESTON, S.C., Jul 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -Blackbaud(R: 68.99, +1.48, +2.19%), Inc.

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JULY 16, 2010

300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA); * $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud); * $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago; * 30% of online giving happens in December. Did You Know? * How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up?

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AFP Blog

MAY 30, 2008

PRESS RELEASEPress Releases: "Blackbaud, Inc. May 29, 2008 – Blackbaud, Inc. Announces Acquisition of KinteraCharleston, S.C. – NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, announced today that it is acquiring Kintera, Inc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 3, 2008

WebCPA - Blackbaud to Acquire Kintera for $46 Million: "Blackbaud to Acquire Kintera for $46 MillionSan Diego (June 2, 2008)By WebCPA staff|Nonprofit accounting software vendor Blackbaud has struck a deal to acquire rival Kintera for $1.12

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

Well-known e-advocacy vendors like Convio , Democracy in Action , and Blackbaud will likely also soon add mobile advocacy to their list of services as well. At least I hope so.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Steve MacLoughlin, Blackbaud. Blackbaud has been actively engaged in researching and analyzing trends in the nonprofit sector for quite a while. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Average Online Gift Trends.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. Among those surveyed, 4 of the top 5 tools in terms of satisfaction were open source (or sort of open source) tools. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

1 trackback } Who’s more open, Blackbaud or Kintera? - It will be interesting to see where this leads them. { Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) apps out there.

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JUNE 10, 2009

The Giving USA Foundation’s annual report on charitable giving said that gifts were down in 2008, but not by much, 2%. More on this story from Blackbaud, which analyzed the data. Online Giving Surpasses $15 Billion in 2008. billion was given online to US charities in 2008. more from Blackbaud here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

article published in our September newsletter , Blackbaud's Steve MacLaughlin. revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. grew 44% over 2007 levels to more than $15 billion. They also found that the. campaigns.

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AFP Blog

JULY 21, 2010

300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA);* $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud);* $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago;* 30% of online giving happens in December. 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

This is a guest post by Daniel Weede, Senior Account Executive at Blackbaud. Daniel has spent the past nine years at Blackbaud working exclusively with K-12 clients and their constituents. . When the economy crashed in 2008, we all felt the negative impact, including K-12 private schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. My next remote apperance is at Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

percent in the three months ending in June 2015, compared to the same period in 2014, according to a Foundation Index introduced this month by Blackbaud. Chuck Longfield, Blackbaud’s chief scientists and creator of the Index, said the new specialty index will serve as a useful tool for foundations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Well, you can start by reading some of the most recent studies by Blackbaud, Donor Digital and M+R Strategic Services with 2008 year-end highlights, and smart tactics to deploy in these hard times. Things didn’t end so bad in 2008. BTW, I just did something that was suggested I not do - mention the state of the economy.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just be aware that when you demand openness from Blackbaud, Convio or any other of the CRM software vendors — that you don’t put yourself in a position where they are still more transparent than you are. It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it. 9 admin 09.22.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

Those under 45 have faced the changing global dynamics of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the COVID-19 pandemic–the results of these major events have been felt extremely acutely as these younger Americans entered the workforce, built families, and attempted to build wealth against these headwinds.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet Solutions, Blackbaud. It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Have you been following the Net Neutrality debate? You should. Think it can't happen?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. with more than $3.7

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