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APRIL 19, 2016

Campaigns use not only the tried and true tactics we see every time around, but also innovate to get an edge over their competitors. As the 2008 campaign was heating up, internet based tools, especially social media, were really taking off. Barack Obama’s 2008 effort was the first truly social media-heavy presidential campaign.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

There were internal benefits as well, with 68% citing an increased access to knowledge, up 30% from 2008, and 54% claiming reduced communications costs, up by 20% from 2008. ” One big standout for me was the statistic that claims 52% of respondents feel they have increased the effectiveness of their marketing using web 2.0

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. This could mean getting aid after a disaster to those that need it by working directly with a local community foundation or addressing a significant need in your community.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Both the The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The NonProfit Times covered the story. Today, Stephanie Strom, Philanthropy reporter for The New York Times did a nice article around data from the Convio system that shows, at least behaviorally, the year-end tax deadline makes a big difference in online giving volume and revenue.

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APRIL 19, 2019

There’s no time like the present to improving your donor retention rates. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. So let’s get started, right? Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

But according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), in 2008 for every $6 raised by charities, they lost $5 through attrition and the 2009 numbers didn’t look any better – with $6 lost through attrition for ever $4.50 The longer you keep your donors and cultivate them effectively, the more they will give over time.

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JUNE 16, 2009

CDF had help during this process - Omni Studio completely redesigned CDF's web assets in 2008, and RedEngine Digital led the process to integrate SEO recommendations. 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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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

According to the Council for Aid to Education's 2008 Voluntary Support of Education Survey , matching gifts as a percentage of corporate giving totaled $175 million in 2008, up $6 million from the previous year. It’s not hard to see why matching gifts are so popular.

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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. You must spend time building content that matters. In fact, I know I’m not alone.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The campaign takes over this page and creates profiles on other networking sites, targeting key demographics where they spend their time such as BlackPlanet and AsianAve. 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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

What was once good enough in the world of grant management has been replaced by a new age of accountability where grant recipients must ensure that funds are spent as intended and performance goals are met on time and on budget. It seemed like a good idea at the time” are often the famous last words before a great disaster.

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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. You must spend time building content that matters. In fact, I know I’m not alone.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

There’s no time like the present to improving your donor retention rates. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. So let’s get started, right? Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I am willing to bet just about anyone that has worked in the nonprofit sector for a notable amount of time has benefited from the work of Idealist.org. Every time I come back to their site, I find something new. By September 2008, after years of steady growth, these little drops were covering 70% of our budget.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Fun times were had by all, the only thing I was missing that evening was a clean ironic t-shirt to wear. Browse the complete list of the finalists to see what some of the most creative web designers were up to in 2008. The event was presented by Adobe and Convio was the sponsor of the Activism category.

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JULY 23, 2013

It’s a little crazy that’s it’s taken me until July to write about my champion Ravens, but I guess all things come in due time. In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire with they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach.

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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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JANUARY 19, 2018

Foundations have consistently remained conservative in their grant and operational spending since the financial market crash of 2008 and have been looking to do more with their limited resources. Grants that are Hyper Issue-Focused with Holistic Approaches to Problem Solving.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I also did a little, non-scientific analysis of some of the cities that had jumps of 20-30 places in their 2008 to 2009 ranking. If we had to rely on the traditional, direct mail model, by the time one created, printed, built a mailing list and mailed the direct mail piece to solicit gifts the passion would have been gone.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. This organization has reached out to me via direct mail and email in the time since then, but always through an acquisition or renewal campaign. So, rather than donating the intended $120 a year to this organization (until I told them I was no longer interested), my gift that year totaled $10.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

percent drop from 2008. Our founder and CSO, Vinay Bhagat was quoted last week in The New York Times about the trend, and today our client American Red Cross was also written up in the Times about their first "Gifts that Save the Day" catalogue. Nearly 21% have not yet decided how much to give and to what charity.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here's a gem of a post from Peter Genuardi in 2008 that addresses this exact point. But the times, they are a-changing and these days we only offer fist pumps for the quality of an organization's list - as measured by open rate, click-through rate, and conversion rate. You can use their behavior as a clue for this.

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APRIL 25, 2012

Confession time: when I am not thinking about everything fundraising, I am a part-time energy economy dork. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. Author: Miriam Kagan.

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JUNE 9, 2016

With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. 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. The answer is a resounding YES.

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MARCH 7, 2011

There was a time when making a phone call for work meant you needed to be seated at your office desk. How about a work environment where employees where the focus is on an employee’s ability to produce results and not on their ability to show up on time? So what do we put in its place?

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Since he started there in 2008, my family has made several donations to support the school. In the wake of the Haiti earthquake, the message was timely and reminded me that in the case of his school, I can do more than give cash. Last week, I received an email asking me to donate earthquake supplies.

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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.

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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). I used to think it was better NOT to identify the organization, and instead to spend a lot of time and effort making it seem like the letter from the constituent had no connection to an organization at all. So thanks, guys!

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JANUARY 24, 2009

If you have a major donor giving $1,000, and a hundred donors giving $10 each, and then all 101 of the donors are asked to give during difficult economic times, which group will yield more gifts? In many cases, the growth in 2008 has been consistent with or better than prior years.

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JUNE 18, 2013

However, in the last 5 years, between 2008 and 2012, giving by individuals averaged just 72% of the total. At the same time over the course of the last 40 years, giving by foundations has increased, from between 6% and 7% of the total in the years 1973 to 1992, to 14% of the total in the last five years (2008-2012).

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JANUARY 19, 2021

If you’re going to try something new, now is the time! Is it time to rethink Doctors’ Day , which is coming up on March 30, 2021? Costs per message are low and you receive feedback on each communication and the interests of your recipients in real-time, allowing you to improve subsequent messages in the campaign.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Here’s a sample of our 2008 year-end campaign. In December of 2008 we conducted our typical year-end direct mail campaign. Integrating your direct mail and online fundraising programs can yield significant increases in overall revenue. It did for us. However, we added an e-mail component as well.

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APRIL 13, 2011

My response to both topics is the same… it is time for nonprofits to mail smarter. If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be This is a double-edged sword for donor acquisition. You may have used the same acquisition lists for several years.

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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. Our guiding principle for our products is for nonprofits to say: ”Because of Blackbaud I spend more time on my mission.”

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MARCH 6, 2012

In 2008, 24 states held their contests, in 2012 it will be just 10 states. In my world these days, I spend a lot of time behind a computer at work. All states offer the option to vote via absentee ballot , and Oregon and Washington are both pretty much entirely vote-by-mail. But by and large, voting is still an in-person event.

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MAY 13, 2016

For all the cutting edge digital techniques employed by the 2008 Obama campaign, they still grappled with a familiar problem nonprofits often face: multiple databases with overlapping, conflicting, and duplicate information. Lesson #2: Consolidate Your Data. Lesson #4: Hints at 2016.

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