NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. The economic impact on giving has been felt by nonprofits and was foreshadowed by the Index of National Fundraising Performance. One could argue that offline might actually cannibalize online giving.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. The project just had it's national launch fairly recently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Create opportunities and events that bring people together online and offline - these activities can help move people up the ladder of engagement, get them volunteering or advocating for your organization, using your services or helping promote them. Visit the original post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Giving USA Foundation , which estimates national charitable giving over a 50-year span, reports that campaign fundraising has historically had no apparent impact on overall individual giving. billion in yearly giving on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Are people giving less because of the economy?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results. In 2009 Volunteers of America looked to get more out of their online fundraising program by tapping into the power of integrated online and offline fundraising. Online revenue from 2009 to 2010 increased 148%.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

While visiting the country, I met with members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) who are using a growing collection of technology tools to confront reported human rights incidents. Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

This report analyzes data from some of the biggest national nonprofits in the U.S. How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? In 2009, Fast Company recognized her as one of the "Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock!" We’ll share the facts and fallacies about online giving.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 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

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation. Designate a cheer leader. Gather your tribe and rally the base. Get your base to give first. Keep cheer leading no matter what happens.

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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. Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process). Connecting and enriching a national movement.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Great post.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. Striving to be replaced also means rewarding and spotlighting the leaders as they emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

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 many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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 many more panel proposals. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. By Skylar Woodward.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. Many organizations learned this the hard way during the acquisition cuts of 2008-2009 trying to save money during the economic downturn. Starting to sound pretty familiar? Perhaps not the cleanest or most glamorous, but they power the revenue engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Sharing, it should then be assumed, is necessary for building trust and real relationships, online or offline, and like in the real world, there are reasonable and unreasonable expectations for your information staying private. You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

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 many more panel proposals. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. By Skylar Woodward.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

1 item on wish lists this year, with 57% of people asking for them, predicts the National Retail Federation.&# The difference is that Causes is continuing to blur the line between online and offline activity. That means taking things offline and into a traditional retail environment. Will it work? Absolutely.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. for the three months ending February 2011, as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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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. First, any demographic study of the nation’s donors makes clear that the overwhelming proportion of philanthropic giving comes from people who are middle-aged or older. This claim bears close examination.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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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. In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. Key Findings: The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online continues to be a significant source of giving and new donors. This is in line with the 2010 Online Giving Report.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Target Analytics donorCentrics Index of National Fundraising Performance for 2009 reported this trend. Recurring Gift Donors only accounted for 10% of all US Donors The Target Analytics 2009 donorCentrics U.S. Here are five statistics from across the nonprofit sector that trouble me and should really trouble you.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Donors Flip Channels Dunham+Company has new data out in “A National Survey of the Impact of Offline Communication on Online Donations.&# It’s Generational (Not) The donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Group recently reviewed 2009 giving data for 14 very large nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. 3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. What is too ambitious or too low a goal?

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

60) Search « Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools | Main | Strategies For Optimizing Your Nonprofits Website » Sunday Jun 28 2009 Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 07:44PM | by Allyson Kapin The struggling economy hit nonprofits hard in the first quarter of 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. For example, the internet was important because it was difficult to organize offline. So, the answer is yes as a tool.

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