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% million compared to $33.19

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact. Here's the topline results: There is extensive experimentation with social media in the nonprofit sector, but only half (51%) surveyed are active users. Measure social media with key metrics for visibility, engagement and advocacy .

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Also, send a post-campaign survey to various audiences involved in the campaign to better understand things like: How much staff effort did the campaign take? Author: Mark Becker, Founding Partner, Cathexis Partners Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been surveying large American companies on their philanthropy annually since 2005.

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Philanthropy Survey Grant Giving 44

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. That’s pretty impressive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5% of use in very large organizations.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. Some tips: Use short online surveys during the campaign to give your fundraisers an easy way to provide feedback. This guest post comes from Mark Becker, founder of Cathexis Partners.

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NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

Instead, so far in 2010, giving to the United Way Worldwide (the largest charity in the survey) decreased by 4.5% and giving to Salvation Army (the second largest charity in the survey) dropped by 8.4%. billion in 2008, the council’s fourth annual “Run Walk Ride Thirty” study reports. According to stats from the RUN.

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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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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. A second survey, from the Cone communications agency , reached similar conclusions. It concludes that: Social technologies are not delivering much in terms of fundraising or attracting volunteers.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2009

NTEN partnered with the NonProfit Times on this survey to offer a closer look at the current state of nonprofit IT staffing in general, and to give organizations the information they need to evaluate and improve their own IT staffing. We began this effort with the 2006 survey, the first of its kind. > Get the Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. Online Donations.

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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. 2008 Winners. View the list of winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Awards (selected by nearly 4,000 voters in the field).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. and how they like them. So go rate your CMS ! {

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. As you know, NOSI is doing a survey on the use of FOSS in the nonprofit sector. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In fact in a recent NFP Synergy survey ( Virtual Promise 2008 ) 49% of folks said they don't measure this stuff at all! One thing that has been bothering me lately is the amount I've been talking to folks about their online success. So many people I've spoken to lately are not measuring how successful online has been for them.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. No concrete conclusions can be drawn about overall use of or satisfaction with CRM tools from this survey. December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05% million of them.) How could that be representative?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

The current version of MS Server in use is Server 2008. If you measure by surveying publicly accessible websites, you get Linux first at 41%-74%, Windows second at 20-42% and proprietary UNIX third at 2-5%?. On the proprietary side, there are two options. Proprietary Unix, and Microsoft Windows, and associated Microsoft Software.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And yet, in the 2022 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey , the Nonprofit Finance Fund found that 71 percent of respondents said that the need for their services increased during the pandemic. There has long been a popular misconception in the philanthropic sector—if a nonprofit has money, it must not need money.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Survey responses. After each event or campaign, it’s a good idea to send participants a survey to capture their feedback. If you find your staff is receiving an increasing number of support requests for your peer-to-peer campaigns and events, it’s a signal that your software might not be as easy for participants to use as it should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ or at least not fast enough. The survey will be one of the centerpieces of discussion at this year’s GEO conference being held in Seattle, March 12-14. Is grantmaking getting smarter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

The American spirit has long been rooted in entrepreneurial success (Acs et al, 2008). 2015 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey. From this, the writer predicts the growth of entrepreneurship and philanthropy in the future of nonprofits. Allowing opportunities to be optimized is an entrepreneurial act. Sources: Arcs, Z., Phillips, R.,

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To start with, we conducted a survey (tweet tweet!) Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011. is through mobile devices! Why Go Mobile? Get Engaged!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 5, 2020

Raymond Flandez writes that “ of the 61 [major] institutions they surveyed, 17 percent of fundraisers were members of minority groups. in History from Arizona State University in 2008 and earned an M.A. The monolithic representation at the top of the nonprofit structure bleeds into representation among fundraising professionals.

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Care2

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A 2008 Congressional Management Foundation report provided a bit more insight: nearly half of US adults had contacted Congress, more than 80% of them at the urging of a third party organization. We partnered up with eight non-profit organizations to survey their advocates and interviewed 25 current and former senior Hill staffers.

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Advocacy Report Summary Mobile 74

Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. Over 200 of them were also surveyed during their junior or senior years of high school in 2006 and 2007. “Both of these outcomes are good for democracy.&#.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2014, the Center for Effective Philanthropy conducted a survey of 235 nonprofit leaders to identify the main practices used by nonprofit organizations to engage clients (Buteau, Gopal, & Buchanan, 2014). Among those surveyed, almost all of the nonprofit leaders indicated their organizations gathered client feedback (Buteau et al.,

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Americorp Organization Arizona Vietnam 56

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Findings from Nonprofit HR’s 2021 Nonprofit Talent Retention Practices survey showed that 42% of responding nonprofit leaders expected their employee turnover to increase in the coming year. About the Author Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Annual IT Staffing Survey , brought to you by NTEN and The Nonprofit Times. When you have time to take a 15-minute break, we hope you'll take our survey. > Take the Online Survey. the survey , then pass it on to a colleague or six! The survey will find out: How many people it takes to manage technology.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new surveys paint a bleak picture of the effectiveness of social media for fundraising and volunteer recruitment. A second survey, from the Cone communications agency , reached similar conclusions. It concludes that: Social technologies are not delivering much in terms of fundraising or attracting volunteers.

Social Media 60

Social Media Volunteer Social Media 60

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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