NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). People give during work hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

As people adopt technology and broadband and wireless access becomes commonplace, nonprofits are buoyed by the ability to use the Internet and technology to communicate quickly and effectively. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Here are a few of the more common questions: Are people giving more to the presidential campaigns and less to nonprofits? Are people giving less because of possible changes to charitable tax deductions? Are people going to give less because they donated to Hurricane Sandy relief? Are people giving less because of the economy?

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Regardless of whether you believe direct mail is on its way out -- and many smart people seem to disagree with each other on this point – nearly everyone agrees that the role of online giving is only becoming more important over time. Tens of millions of people are doing business online. Consider this. Internet users, or 72.5%

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

The New Year has officially begun, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the year past, or for most people, look forward to see what resolutions and initiatives can be planned to make the new 2010 better than 2009. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. It’s a $235 they wouldn’t have had without this little experiment.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

I secretly hoped that at least those other 95% recycled… And I couldn't help but draw parallels in my mind about marketing channel mix and energy. So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. Invest at a faster rate in the new channels and allow for the learning curves.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Diverse Goals.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? Friday, May 29, 2009 at 09:41AM | by Allyson Kapin In the next five years, money spent annually on direct mail will decline by as much as 40%, from $49.7 Furthermore, many people view direct mail as “junk mail.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. She Jillian York’s critique.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Most people who donate will do so more than once. Q: Does this include offline giving too? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving. Organizations that use multiple channels to appeal for support report a higher value and larger gifts from their online supporters. This will give you a more accurate picture.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

Most people who donate will do so more than once. Q: Does this include offline giving too? A: The Convio benchmark numbers exclude offline giving. Organizations that use multiple channels to appeal for support report a higher value and larger gifts from their online supporters. This will give you a more accurate picture.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel. Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether thats raising funds, engaging people, or something else.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

If you wait for the emergency to happen, then it’s too late Having reliable people, processes, and technology are critical. People Does your staff have experience with prior emergency situations? Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go? There is a limited window to reach and engage supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Most were using Twitter as one channel in a multi-channel campaign and asked for small donations ($10), although gave incentives for larger gifts. Look out, the next reiteration of micro fundraising on Twitter is coming on February 12, 2009 and will combine online twitter fundraising with an offline event.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

» Sunday May 31 2009 Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:22PM | by Mal Warwick My, my. 3) The direct-mail-is-dead crowd repeatedly asserts that only old people give by mail and that young people only give online. Philanthropy has always been primarily a concern of older people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Social networks like Twitter connect us with people online who share our interests or passions about making the world a better place.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Actually, it’s single channel communication that’s dead. Donors Flip Channels Dunham+Company has new data out in “A National Survey of the Impact of Offline Communication on Online Donations.&# Donors flip channels. Successful organizations make channel flipping effortless and effective.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. Changes come through people and culture and not through technology. 1905-1911, people were publishing in exile, printing and sharing over the boarder, etc. So, the answer is yes as a tool.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

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