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2008 Charitable Giving Exceeds $300 Billion

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While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% The blog Tactical Philanthropy had a great post yesterday about the perspective one could bring to the news. from 2007 levels. See our full Q1 findings here.

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

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Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online today. In this blog post, I want to discuss two big themes from chapter 1 of the book. I call it the “Media Theory of Movement Power.”

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Major Donors are Multichannel

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If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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Team Obama ranked #1 most innovative by Fast Company

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Numerous blog posts and articles have dissected the campaign and provided key strategic takeaways (see Transparency, stupid , Will Mobile Really Move People ?and July 2008 : Supporters launch an uprising on mybarackobama.com in response to a vote made by Obama. Obama writes a long blog to explain his reasoning.

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SXSW Web Awards

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Blog: Bygone Bureau. Browse the complete list of the finalists to see what some of the most creative web designers were up to in 2008. Check out the some of the winners from the evening: Activism: Tweet Congress. Community: Lost Zombies – This site also won the People’s Choice Award. Education: The Cycle.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

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Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. This blog post was originally published in 2014, but has been updated to reflect the most updated charitable giving data and trends. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Shanon Doolittle , Doogooder. Be a nice human.

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#TBT to That Time the Baltimore Ravens Taught Me an Important Lesson in Fundraising

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When I’m not blogging, I spend my days managing an amazingly talented team of fundraising consultants. In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire when they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach. More often than not, fear wins when it comes to making choices about your fundraising program. .