Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2009

The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. 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 But, unfortunately, most of the news was bad. Photo: Peter Gerdes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Launched in 2008, MobileCause pioneered the use of text-to-donate in the nonprofit sector. In the years since they have expanded to offer online, mobile, and event fundraising solutions, peer-to-peer campaigns, mobile messaging, robust reporting & analytics, and CRM integration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2017

The findings will be published January 29, 2018 in the third edition of the Global NGO Technology Report. It’s Time | Marriage Equality. The Things They Said… Survival International. World Hunger: A Billion for a Billion. World Food Programme. Hollywood Declares Themselves. The world has changed. You can too. Invisible Children.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 21, 2009

The Altimeter Blog has announced that they are releasing a new study on how the major brands, as identified by the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking , use social media to get their message out.

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Care2

OCTOBER 10, 2012

In 2005, the Congressional Management Foundation reported that communications to Congress had increased fourfold over the previous decade, and had doubled between 1999 and 2004. The complete report is available here: Advocacy and online action is essentially synonymous amongst activists. That is a ton of advocacy. To what end?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I use TweetDeck, Twhirl, and the Analytics reporting suite among others. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? It’s not cheap, but it works well, and saves me so much time invoicing, that it pays for itself several times over every month. Proprietary Tools. Adobe Air , and applications. It’s kinda cool.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Also, be sure to set up more detailed reports for deeper analysis. The way you set up your dashboards and reports will depend on multiple factors, including your data analysis goals and what data you need to inform your analysis. Run final reports after your campaign has ended, and all donations have been entered.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. Probably middle of 2008.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 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 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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NTEN

MAY 27, 2009

> Get the Report. Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN reports. Our hope is that this survey will help nonprofits answer the challenging questions by providing greater context of what similar — and possibly more successful — organizations are doing. >

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 16, 2009

Smaller non-profit organizations get some encouraging news in NTEN’s newly released 2008 IT Staffing & Spending Report -- when it comes to being on the cutting edge of non-profit technology, size doesn’t matter.( read more ).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Today, we are very pleased to announce the release of the Data Ecosystem Report. In 2008, NTEN began asking the community to tell us what they thought of the tools they use. Still, these reports were only shedding light on a small slice of the software pie. Of course, life is rarely that simple. We love to hear from you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

Being able to report on this data in an easy-to-read format was very important, as was having robust induction and training resources for the volunteers who run the pantries. Another key part of the project was to build a suite of reports which allowed the team to highlight the work and impact they have on the communities they work in.

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Tech Soup

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. The study reports: Positive year-over-year growth in all of the key areas of online success. in 2007 and 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder. PEW REPORT] Digital Differences: How the Mobile Web is Narrowing the Digital Divide. Facebook war propagated by tech blogs and the media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

TerraChoice Environmental Marketing recently released the latest in their series of Sins of Greenwashing reports. Their TerraChoice Greenwashing Report 2010 finds that 95 percent of green product claims are misleading. Our GreenTech Initiative has been very interested in understanding greenwashing since we started the program in 2008.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 5, 2010

I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. More than half of the nonprofits that reported the size of their average online gifts saw decreases in gift size.

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NTEN

JULY 27, 2011

One of the things we're tracking in NTEN's annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending report is where IT is located within organizations -- as in, where the primary IT staff are in the organizational structure. How does this compare to previous years? Well, it turns out the trends are not what we'd like to see.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. We believe China and the IOC should be held accountable to the promises they made during Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics."

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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Whole Whale

MAY 26, 2022

For this reason, the federal communications commission (FCC) released a report in consultation with the U.S. The FCC recommended that 988 be used as the 3-digit number for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the report. since 2008, with 44,000 Americans losing their lives through suicide in 2020, which was just two years ago.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Earlier this spring, we collected responses from 1000 folks and have analyzed and reported back that data for you in this report. > > Download the report (free). of NTEN members feel that their membership helps them be more effective in their work, an increase of nearly 5% over 2008 responses. Key Findings.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

However, it became evident after the market crash in 2008 that many under-capitalized organizations were so financially fragile that they didn’t make it through. On internal reports, make sure to include information about your reserves. Your donors, staff, and Board members may not understand operating reserves right away.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. How's our blogging?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. Send too many “one size fits all” emails and you risk decreased interest, lower attention levels and, ultimately, less engaged constituents.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2009

While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% With an estimated two-thirds of charities experiencing a decrease in 2008 overall giving, I decided to take a look at how things are shaping up so far in 2009. from 2007 levels.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 30, 2009

In 2008, non-profits and charities collected about 10% of their donations online, according to a survey by Target Analytics, but usability expert Jakob Nielsen says the amount of money collected online could be much higher — with improved website design and content that answers the donors’ real questions. read more ).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 6% reported that matching gifts provided 10 - 20% of their gift income and a handful reported over 20%.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

In the 2015 Nonprofit Finance Fund Report, 23 percent of nonprofits reported operating in deficit and 29 percent reported break-even finances (Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2015). These reports expose a need for short and long-term strategic planning in order to establish financial security (Leroux, 2005). Sources: Arcs, Z.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late 2009. 2008 Winners.

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NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

For large nonprofits here is some even scarier news: the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in October of 2010 that donations to the nation’s largest charities dropped 11% last year. billion in 2008, the council’s fourth annual “Run Walk Ride Thirty” study reports. conference of 2010 [1] the top thirty “ thon ” (i.e.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies.

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