Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Blackbaud hasn’t been doing so well , in the stock price department either. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. 1 trackback } Blackbaud buys Kintera » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 05.29.08 Time will tell. {

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

In the past, members of the analytics consulting team at Blackbaud have written on this subject matter in the 2009 publication Building Fundraising Momentum in a Recession and the 2011 article Raising Money During Challenging Times. We’ve weathered the 11 recessions that have occurred between 1945 and 2001 as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5%

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs - Is a website redesign in your organization's 2009 plan? Check out this post which "shares some very early online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. This information comes from approximately 2,000 nonprofit organizations using Blackbaud's Internet solutions."

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. 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. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. The average online gift for the month of December increased to $248.82

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. Haven’t heard about it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

It is an enterprise-class client/server CRM, and has the kind of features you see in such packages as Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. And Blackbaud may well be shaking in their boots. It’s been around for quite a while, and has a solid user base. I’ll be following MPower closely over the next months and years.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

In this webinar, fundraising experts from Union of Concerned Scientists, Blackbaud and Care2 will analyze the most significant results of the newly released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmark Report. Speakers: Allison Van Diest, Internet Solutions Architect, Blackbaud. Please register now!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. Among those surveyed, 4 of the top 5 tools in terms of satisfaction were open source (or sort of open source) tools. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. Fat Cyclist comes back with two Blackbaud Fundraising sites: * [link] * [link]. 135K and counting has been raised as of Friday December 11th, 2009 at 2:27 pm pst. Frank is a Consulting Manager at Blackbaud Internet Solutions. 5 Takeaways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

1 trackback } Who’s more open, Blackbaud or Kintera? - It will be interesting to see where this leads them. { Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Blackbaud is conducting a survey as part of their State of the Nonprofit Industry (SONI) series. This SONI survey on internet investments hopes to help nonprofits better understand how much to invest in online marketing and fundraising and what to expect in return. Take the survey here ! .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. How do we keep our ideals connected with our technologies? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. How do we keep our ideals connected with our technologies? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) apps out there.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

By Frank Barry, Director, Professional Services, Blackbaud. The game was released in the fall of 2009 and has had more than 20 million plays. Frank Barry manages professional services for Blackbaud Internet Solutions and is responsible for driving performance in the consulting, technical services and project management practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. Thanks much for getting this going.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

This is a guest post by Daniel Weede, Senior Account Executive at Blackbaud. Daniel has spent the past nine years at Blackbaud working exclusively with K-12 clients and their constituents. . According to NAIS, K-12 school enrollment numbers fell by 3% in 2009 and another 7% in 2010.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

According to Blackbaud 's 2011 Online Giving Report , online earnings dropped by 55 percent; but that was likely due to the increase in donations due to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. For more information, download Blackbaud’s free 2011 Online Giving Report.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2009

Blackbaud is conducting a State of the Nonprofit Industry (SONI) survey on internet investments and hopes to help nonprofits better understand how much to invest in online marketing and fundraising and what your nonprofit can expect in ROI. But just how much money should you be investing in your online strategy?

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Well, my favorite white paper of 2009 just became my favorite white paper of 2011! The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and MultiChannel Giving Benchmarking Report was just released last week, updating the version I excitedly blogged about , lo, those many moons ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Certain organizations will, if they have not already, use the internet for this purpose. Just be aware that when you demand openness from Blackbaud, Convio or any other of the CRM software vendors — that you don’t put yourself in a position where they are still more transparent than you are. In many cases this may happen.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

In just 2 days, we'll be opening up the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference with the Science Fair ! Blackbaud : Visit Blackbaud in booth #66 during the Science Fair, and while you're there, record your NTEN memories in the digital photo booth. Mysamaris : Are your internet solutions taking you where you want to go?

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving would be up 6.3%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 This article was originally posted on Connections at [link] by Steve MacLaughlin: Steve MacLaughlin is the Director of Internet Solutions at Blackbaud and is a frequent blogger, presenter, and writer about technology trends in the nonprofit industry. Where are we today? What's going on? Few experts.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Blackbaud updates these indices on the 15th of each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 0.3%

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Blackbaud updates these indices on the 15th of each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. for the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 20th, 2010 Today is the start of Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. million nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits – Day 3 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 22nd, 2010 This is the last day of Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits here in Washington, DC.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 2 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 18th, 2011 Day 2 of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) in Washington, DC is when things really kick into high gear.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Myths about Online Giving Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 1st, 2010 There are so many myths about online giving. The median online gift above $1,000 was $3,500 in 2009. Here are five that need to be busted. smaclaughlin Kenny.

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