Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. How To Get Corporate Philanthropy.

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CauseVox

MARCH 31, 2021

In this free 60-minute webinar on 4/15 @ 2 pm EST, you’ll learn: Key areas to consider when constructing your communications plan Ideas to help ensure your peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and events run more smoothly Tips for getting better overall results from your campaigns + more! Speaker : Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the height of the 2008 recession, skills-based volunteering exploded across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As a diverse swath of organizations are looking for of infrastructure supports, skills-based models must be diversified to meet changing sector needs, just as they did in 2008. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. You may discover that retweeting your own tweets results in higher engagement than tweeting the same tweet twice. Experiment and keep in mind that those who use Twitter regularly tend to love Twitter.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

If there was anyone in that room who was disappointed in the result, they never let on. We watched and cheered at the top of our lungs as Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. It was a very special night. The session I participated in on Wednesday morning, “So Many Apps, So Little Time,&# went well.

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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. The mainstream media and higher education essentially flipped out over the “dangers of social networking,” and Myspace took the brunt of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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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. Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. read more.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program. Drove list growth and great results, in part through having a newsletter with all of the content being short and snappy and above the fold. Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Winner: KQED. Email List Growth.

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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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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2021

The idea for the first DipJar came from founder Ryder Kessler in 2008 as a way to tip coffee shop baristas. Our passion to help them achieve fundraising success has only increased as a result. We’re excited to announce that nonprofit organizations have collectively raised $16 million using DipJar!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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Robert Weiner

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. Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The results of two new surveys paint a bleak picture of the effectiveness of social media for fundraising and volunteer recruitment. However, despite poor results to date, "the overwhelming majority of respondents. It concludes that: Social technologies are not delivering much in terms of fundraising or attracting volunteers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 As a result, many organizations cut back on services, made drastic budget cuts—including to employee benefit programs and staffing—to stay afloat, or outright closed.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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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. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 63% raised over $50,000.

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark » Wednesday Jan 16 2008 So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 03:57PM | by James OMalley Help us help you by taking the frogloop 2008 Reader Survey ! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Main | Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Since this is only a sneak peak at the executive summary and charts, it will be interesting to read the forthcoming papers to be published in 2008. There is an executive summary available at the site with a couple of charts showing familiarity, usage of tools, monitoring and management. tools to pay attention to.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Many nonprofit staff members experience burnout as a result of consistent cash flow stress, which often leads to low morale and increased staff turnover. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

M+R Strategic Services says that although the economy is down, online giving is up (as of November 2008). Their analysis showed: read more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. But will it get better as a result? Today, Blackbaud announced the acquisition of Kintera. Hard to know.

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Connection Cafe

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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. These positive results are no longer being overlooked by nonprofit executives. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. billion was given online to US charities in 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) What is public? How do we know? How can we assure privacy?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 3, 2018

Gina Trimarco , CEO/Founder of Pivot10 Results and Carolina Improv Company, is a serial entrepreneur, speaker and trainer with 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, operations and people training. She specializes in training that helps people build stronger rapport and connections in business.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Well, we have some data from Europe : FLOSS potentially saves industry over 36% in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation. So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do?

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Guess that one slipped through in 2008. I’ve long stopped monitoring where my blog comes up in search results. Truth be told, I typically delete such useless drivel right away as blog spam. First, I don’t like being threatened. Does it look like I care about the disavow tool?

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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? It's often a hard thing to wrap our minds around because so much of social media doesn't provide straightforward numbers. Check out some great designs that could get you thinking!

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