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The 2009 America's Giving Challenge

Care2

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. million for nonprofit organizations.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

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 percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. This decline is not anecdotal. and MĂ©xico. He holds an M.A.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). Functional Allocation Time Study (internal) : Many organizations classify all of their employees’ salaries to overhead, and many donors view employee salaries as overhead. Gregory, A. Medford (Mass.):

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Great reads from around the web on September 9th

Amy Sample Ward

How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple. " Here's a case study from Jared Schwartz about how Critical Exposure used social media to fundraise and campaign.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: September 4th 2009

NTEN

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. See the case-study here. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday!