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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. Recommendation: When you are working with your grant partners or reviewing their needs, work to connect them to all available resources.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We use them because we know that they work. We know that they work because we went through a long period of trial-and-error in the past to determine that they work. The grand appeal of the data wizards is that by “trusting the data,” you can bypass a lot of the hard, messy strategic work that goes into advocacy campaigning.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

I worked at an organization that was very active in water conservation. This data excludes special events related (TeamRaiser) gifts and recurring donations and represents clients that: • were active fundraising prior to 1/1/2008 • averaged >1 donation/day in 2008 (ie. had more than 365 donations in 2008).

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JUNE 16, 2009

It's been my good fortune to work with Children's Defense Fund for the last year and a half here at Convio. 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. Google organic search visits increased by 23%.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

"Every year as we approach the end of the year and holiday giving season, millions of Americans give to charities hoping to have a positive impact on the communities where they live and work. While they give billions of dollars during the season, they often forget or neglect to take advantage of matching gift programs.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

July 2008 : Supporters launch an uprising on mybarackobama.com in response to a vote made by Obama. August 2008 : Obama makes the VP announcement everyone was anxiously awaiting by text message for the first time ever. All of the campaign’s online/new media activities supported one another and worked together cohesively.

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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. Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector.

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JULY 17, 2013

Here are the percentages from 2008-2012: 27%, 29%, 28%, 27% and 27%. Is it working? 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? What strategies have you implemented? How much time are you spending?

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APRIL 19, 2019

Strategy only works when it’s based on heartfelt beliefs and deep commitment. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. T ake stock of what’s still not working with your donor retention program and ask the donor advisory board how to do better! Third, behave accordingly! Lisa Sargent , Lisa Sargent Communications.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Operating reserves provide sufficient working capital when cash flow is unreliable and reimbursable grant payments are coming late. However, it became evident after the market crashed in 2008 that many under-capitalized organizations were so financially fragile that they didn’t make it through.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

” This campaign and the online generosity of Austinites comes together as a great opportunity for the region’s nonprofits to engage the community online as well as through the other programs and channels available - maybe this is proof the campaing is working. Check out the list and let us know what you think.

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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 7, 2016

In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession. Congress and President Obama came together in a rare show of collaboration to pass the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and pump nearly $800 billion dollars into the economy to stimulate jobs and support numerous public works projects.

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MARCH 7, 2011

A couple years ago I learned about some crazy happenings at the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio : they didn't go to work. There was a time when making a phone call for work meant you needed to be seated at your office desk. Almost every piece of office equipment made it virtually impossible to work anywhere but the office.

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here's some more info from Google about how Priority Inbox works. Here's a gem of a post from Peter Genuardi in 2008 that addresses this exact point. It also allows users to designate which messages should be treated with importance. What does this mean for nonprofit email marketers? You can use their behavior as a clue for this.

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APRIL 25, 2012

In my mind, the comparison works this way: DM=oil TM=coal DRTV=Nuclear Email= Natural gas Mobile, social, geolocation= solar, wind, geothermal. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. In the energy marketplace, coal and gas are still king.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Strategy only works when it’s based on heartfelt beliefs and deep commitment. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. T ake stock of what’s still not working with your donor retention program and ask the donor advisory board how to do better! Third, behave accordingly! Lisa Sargent , Lisa Sargent Communications.

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APRIL 9, 2015

Did those pesky fearful thoughts of will this work creep into your decision making? In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire when they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach. Think about the last time you wanted to make a change to your fundraising program.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2010

Since he started there in 2008, my family has made several donations to support the school. Have something else that works well for your organization? The reason that I typically open my wallet first is because that is what you tell me to do. So tell me to do something else. Share them here!

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JANUARY 24, 2009

Ask anyone who used to work for Lehman Brothers or Washington Mutual. The reward is that there less work that a nonprofit must perform to secure a donation of considerable size, as compared to the effort involved in cultivating a large donor base of smaller donors.

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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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DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). The Congressional Management Foundation has put out a report on how to improve the state of affairs for communicating electronically with Congress.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Overall, 69 percent of organizations raised more in 2009 than 2008, while 31 percent saw declines in their online fundraising. 60 percent of organizations grew their website traffic from 2008 to 2009. And then, continue to test what works best for your organization. Donors were still giving, but giving smaller amounts.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

We are working with all Common Ground clients to discuss their specific options moving forward. 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. Will the system be turned off?

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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. Yet that didn’t even include all the data from field operations via canvassing, voter ID, and get-out-the-vote work!

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