sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&#

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

With more than half of 2010 now over, it might be helpful to review some updated statistics. . The Index shows that online giving remained positive during most of 2009 and the trends for 2010 have been very encouraging. Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has been looking at trends in online and offline giving for many years now.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 Want to start or help a cause? million for nonprofit organizations. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I've had time offline, with family, and just relaxing. The winner will get to attend the Inaugural Ceremony and Hawaii Inaugural Ball! Here's the description from the Case Foundation Web Site: It’s easy to enter – just 2 simple steps: Think about what you can do to help your community. three-nights hotel stay. a Flip video cam.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Well, my favorite white paper of 2009 just became my favorite white paper of 2011! Take some of the key findings: Every year, large proportions of online-acquired donors switch from online giving to offline sources - primarily to direct mail. The number of donors that give both on and offline is less than 10%. The lesson?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. Throughout the summer, we worked hard to provide organizations with ample information about how the new site works, what would feel different and how to get help. They are enthusiastic and positive voices for us.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit organizations, online major giving data from 2,397 nonprofits, and both online and offline data representing $5.1 Every nonprofit sector in the analysis has had double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. billion in total fundraising from 1,560 nonprofits.

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Trend Online Giving Analysis 79

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. The only way, in my view, to bring those you aren’t connected or participating online into the conversations, especially those on digital inclusion, to help shape policies and changes for creating one web that really does serve everyone. Today is OneWebDay !

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). … Read More

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. So, if your organization serves or engages with youth and you want to think about moving into social networking spaces, here are a few pointers to help you get started! The parties, the dances, the school events, they all helped shape many of the memories from being school-aged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. As Sue tells it, “Inspired, I began to reach out to my personal network on Twitter and Facebook and offline through word of mouth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants. And be sure to share invitations for the fundraiser and those that donate to his or her campaign to join your organization outside of facebook (on your enewsletter, your action alerts, an offline event, or something else to keep them on your list). Skewing the numbers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. The more you can simplify your program model and codify it, the easier it will be to help others replicate it in their own communities. With assistance from KaBOOM!

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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. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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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). We looked at: 3.6

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Studies Donor Online Giving 95

Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

from 2009 when giving was $280.3 Median revenue per donor for multichannel supporters was $339 compared to $88 for offline. It should focus on programs that are helping you meet your mission. Fundraising Facts. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. – Charity Navigator. This is an increase of 3.8% – AFP.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. and Canada. and Canada.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. Be Helpful. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway. David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

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Care2

OCTOBER 21, 2009

After studying over 50 international nonprofit organization's email lists and response rates, the 2009 eCampaigning Review Study revealed that 60% of nonprofits present a compelling argument for supporters to take action, yet close to 70% of the organizations did not send a follow up email within one month. Can they volunteer?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Integrating online and offline communications. at 4:36 pm P.S. I thought my name would link to email, alas no, so please email me at tspann [at] convio.com if you’ve got a case study of online/offline campaign integration. Be Helpful. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. The study, which you can download here , summarizes “$381 million in online giving through Network for Good’s platform, including 3.6 Here are some key findings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

They also helped the NHRC upgrade their computers so that they could prepare for our arrival in Nigeria. One of the most rewarding parts of this training was speaking to Zonal officers about the specific challenges they faced in their local offices and trying to help them implement Martus in spite of those difficulties.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Video, social media, and peer-to-peer fundraising and engagement are helping nonprofits leverage the trends and data to be more successful in their communications and fundraising programs. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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Portland Oregon Work Cambodia 50

Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

We can help! How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? Jocelyn is passionate about helping nonprofits succeed online so that they can change the world! In 2009, Fast Company recognized her as one of the "Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock!" So what and who cares? Please register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success. They used social media to help win the DC Best Place to Volunteer Contest.

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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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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses. Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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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. Improve multichannel engagement/integration. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness. Happy New Year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. The map can help us hone the practices we use on Twitter for building the network and perhaps help improve the outcomes as illustrated in this slide from Marc’s presentation. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession ended in June 2009, and fundraising historically takes three years recover from a recession. billion in yearly giving on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Are people giving less because of the economy? No more guessing. All Year Over End of Year.

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