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MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. Some people say Twitter is just a bunch of noise, broken up into 140 character sound bytes.

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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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MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. Some people say Twitter is just a bunch of noise, broken up into 140 character sound bytes.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Lists almost always get people’s attention. They also point to trends and issues that are often of interest to people. That begged the question, are the good people of Austin giving more outside of Austin because of their propensity for living a wired lifestyle? Author: Tad Druart.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Heidi Hess, the Director of Online Communications at CDF, wanted to make www.childrensdefense.org the destination site for people searching for information about child advocacy issues. And the proof of the pudding is in the eating - since the new site was launched on March, 2009: overall site visits from 2008 to 2009 increased by 12%.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

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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JULY 17, 2013

Here are the percentages from 2008-2012: 27%, 29%, 28%, 27% and 27%. They’re our most dedicated and engaged people, so how about we focus on them for a change? I know it’s tough to read the numbers and my chart is a little more dramatic than it should be because of double numbers in the vertical axis. Not a lot of change right?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Just glance over their Resources Page and you'll find a massive number of sections including: A Career Center : Arguably one of the largest and best know career resources for people interested in starting or enriching their career in the nonprofit sector.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

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. May 2007 : A grassroots Obama MySpace page hits 100,000 fans.

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APRIL 7, 2010

I’m in Atlanta on the eve of the 2010 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and excited about the few people that I have already run into and looking forward to reuniting with more friends and NPTech peeps. You’ll find people at the conference using it in Twitter , Delicious , Facebook, Flickr , and more.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Community: Lost Zombies – This site also won the People’s Choice Award. Browse the complete list of the finalists to see what some of the most creative web designers were up to in 2008. Blog: Bygone Bureau. Education: The Cycle. Experimental: We Tell Stories – This site also won Best of Show.

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MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. In addition, there is attention to major donor development and a focus on the cause and the people affected by the work of the charity.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Target people based on their level of engagement with you, their status as a donor or non-donor, an advocate, or a social media super user. Here's a gem of a post from Peter Genuardi in 2008 that addresses this exact point. More on this in a post to come later this month - make sure you send people the things they want to read.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

” Organizations do not want to invest in infrastructure when they can using the Internet to give their people to access technology and enabled services. Maybe we just have to tell people to get their heads in the cloud as a way to pique their interest. Seems it is now the option of choice for commercial world as well.

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APRIL 19, 2019

This forces us to create systems to deepen relationships with people that are fans of what we do, rather than just treating them as ‘the public’ or ‘our constituents.’ Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

percent drop from 2008. Of that 106+ million people looking to give, there are about well over 20 million Americans who might be torn between buying a gift for a loved one or friend and giving to charity. According to the National Retail Federation U.S. consumers plan to spend an average of $682.74 on holiday-related shopping, a 3.2

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

“What’s working for us right now is the customization of fundraising for different audiences, giving a very small but very important group of people exactly what they’re looking for,” says Bork, the chief development and communications officers. Collectively, the eight funds gave roughly $600,000 for research in 2014.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

While the financial markets gradually have recovered since they crashed in 2008, a focus on providing good customer services to donors has helped generate annual giving of roughly $300 million a year over the past five years to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Blackbaud also publishes a giving index for Canada. With nearly $7.9

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

More than 63% of online consumers plan to use the Internet to donate to charities of their choice during the upcoming holiday season, up from 51% in 2008 – when you look at the amount they plan to give it looks like organizations ready to engage online could see a more prosperous holiday season than those late to the online game.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

This forces us to create systems to deepen relationships with people that are fans of what we do, rather than just treating them as ‘the public’ or ‘our constituents.’ Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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JUNE 9, 2016

With each action taken by advocates, there is the opportunity to virally spread the word about the action and, in turn, engage new contacts/advocates, building your database of people that you can communicate with at any time. New donors. So the question isn’t “should I engage in advocacy?” What are you waiting for? 3] Kingdon, J.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Since he started there in 2008, my family has made several donations to support the school. The attractive double-sided, full color piece on high-quality card stock might inspire some people to donate, but for me it made me feel as though you aren’t listening to what I’ve told you in the past.

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APRIL 25, 2012

Sure, there are the outliers: people living “off the grid”, whole villages in Africa using solar cookers, but largely, we all sigh and agree that while progress is made toward other forms of energy, coal and oil are in our lives.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

The risk of relying on major gifts: there are fewer people involved in the decision to reduce or eliminate the major gift. In many cases, the growth in 2008 has been consistent with or better than prior years. How can a nonprofit hedge against the risk of relying on major donors?

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MARCH 7, 2011

In 2008, I had stumbled across their book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It in an airport bookstore. She is now a freelance writer, a speaker, and coach for people rebelling against the status quo. I read it cover-to-cover on my flight and was hooked.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). See pages 15-16 of the report - poli-fluentials are people who participate in online advocacy, and are 7 times more likely to be "influentials" in their social networks. (If

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JANUARY 19, 2021

However, we are suggesting that you consider ways to reach people who you don’t reach with direct mail, as well as to take advantage of the shift to digital channels that has been accelerated over the past 12 months. People are more likely to give to someone they know than they are to give to a hospital foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After our acquisition of Kintera in 2008, we went through a similar review process and decided to focus that product on the peer-to-peer fundraising space and to stop offering it as a CRM product. This is not new for us, though some have argued we haven’t done it enough.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Though some megaprograms have stabilized or grown since 2008 (Heart Walk and the Alzheimer’s Walk being two great examples), most have taken major hits to the top line. Overall top thirty revenue grew nearly 10% from 2008 to 2016. That growth reflects the impressive growth of: Regional cycling (e.g.

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MARCH 6, 2012

To boot, election season has been in gear for a while now, meaning that the news (and my Facebook News Feed) are filled up with articles and people's commentary on the candidates and the issues. In 2008, 24 states held their contests, in 2012 it will be just 10 states. You might see people who you don't know yet, but who you recognize.

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