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Silent Auction Baskets: 5 Tips to Create Unique Gifts

Get Fully Funded

Gift baskets are a staple of silent auction fundraising events. If they bring home a high-quality, interesting gift basket, they’ll have a memento of a good experience that will remind them to stay involved with your nonprofit. To make the most of your baskets, you’ll need to get creative and make them stand out. Let’s get started!

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2008 Online Giving Trends

Robert Weiner

Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. An average online gift of $152.12, although organizations focused on event-based and peer-to-peer online fundraising had lower average gift amounts. The average online gift for the organizations studied increased to $248.82

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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

Qgiv

Hunger Action Month was established by Feeding America in 2008 as part of a nationwide, month-long campaign to raise awareness of hunger in our country and promote ways for individuals everywhere to get involved with the effort to fight it. The post CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533% appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. The findings included: Although 99% of respondents accept matching gifts, only 67% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts. 63% raised over $50,000. 63% raised over $50,000.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices 2009

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The findings included: 96% of respondents accept matching gifts (down from 99% in 2008), but only 60% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts.

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This may be where the gift economy rubber meets the road. at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW! And so the feedback cycle keeps going. There are all sorts of worthy candidates! {

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Research Friday: How Important is Gift Acknowledgement to Donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

The type of thank you did not appear to depend on the size of my gift. In a 2003 survey, 92% of donors said that a gift acknowledgement from the organization was critically important to the donor. 1 It is clear that acknowledging a donor gift is crucial to retaining donors. For example, I gave $20.08