Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 62% connect to internet wirelessly. millions PCs in Q4 2010. 90% of mobile subscribers in the US have internet-ready phones. 79% of respondents volunteered in 2010, and they prefer to do it in groups. Large scale fundraising events?

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Mobile St. Louis Donor Blackberry 137

NetWits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Experience shows us that only 40% of your 2011 fundraisers will return for next year’s event. That’s a challenging number to digest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

The eight reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. 4) 2011 Online Giving Report :: Download. 5) 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report :: Download.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long.

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Social Media Media Management Social 247

Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

on the Future of Fundraising back in 2011. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. Only one year later, much has changed.

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Herzegovina Fundraising Bosnia Romania 63

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Blackbaud Benchmark Nonprofit Chart 87

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. Smartphones are dramatically changing how people use the Internet. I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010. population!).

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Mobile Websites United States Nonprofit 210

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. " Is email going out with 2011? And it's convinced me of one undisputable fact.

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Web Indiana Case Study Bookmarking 117

Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

Online fundraising has become a popular method for increasing revenue and acquire new donors. While it does not yet amount to the bulk of fundraising for most nonprofits, online giving grew by 13 percent from 2010 to 2011. The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations.

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Results Online Donor Fundraising 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. How big is video online?

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Video El Salvador Donation Fundraising 106

NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Millennial Distinctions about 85 Million 1st generation raised on mobiles 95% own mobile devices 83% sleep with mobile at bedside 62% connect to internet wirelessly more likely than any other generation to post a video of themselves online Are you Millennial ready?

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Mobile St. Louis Donor Blackberry 55

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Web Drupal Open Source Bookmarking 117

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Today's good news is that the checkout services will be free for another year (until January 1, 2011), but only for nonprofits also enrolled in Google Grants for free advertising. If you have a Google Checkout account and a Google Grants account, you need to link them to take advantage of the donated checkout service. Tools Web 2.0

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Google Free Disaster Test 43

AFP Blog

JULY 11, 2012

7 secrets to increasing fundraising results - TheNonProfitTimes : Online fundraising has become a popular and successful method for nonprofits trying to increase revenue and acquire new donors. Frank Barry, Internet strategy manager for Blackbaud in Charleston, S.C.,

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Results Fundraising Blackbaud Method 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. Also, fundraising may not be your first objective with mobile. What is your objective?

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Donor Summary Mobile Phone 98

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites. This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. And the findings are, indeed, interesting. MySpace – 29%.

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Research Social Network Internet Linkedin 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever – Guest Post by Joe Waters. A college grad researching a career in fundraising recently asked me what’s changed since I started in the field. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. Everything,” I replied.

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Platform Giving Fundraising Game 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. In 2004, Joaquin began the National Public Lightpath, advocating high-speed, fiber-optic network as the next generation of the Internet. Erinn Andrews. Vanessa Chase.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data. Outlook 2010: Manage your time and tasks with this program. PowerPoint 2010: Build slideshows and presentations with text effects, sound, and animation.

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Software Build PDF Library 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., Good way to meet good mobile developers.

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Mobile Conference Resource Social 99

NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

In a similar finding, the Pew Research Center reported in January 2011 that among the general public the Internet has now surpassed newspapers as a primary source of news and is steadily closing the gap with television. The Internet's data-handling capabilities are one of its distinguishing (and revolutionary) characteristics.

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Data New York Government Digital 91

NetWits

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you’ve been in the nonprofit industry for a while, you’ve likely heard that “direct mail is dead” or that offline fundraising is on the decline. Because Internet usage continues to skyrocket. That online fundraising is the way for your organization to break through its fundraising ceiling and raise millions of dollars tomorrow.

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Offline Results Fundraising Blackbaud 279

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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Online Fundraising Blackbaud Chile 111

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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NTEN Conference Technology Blackbaud 71

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet. What about a fundraising tool? 1Sky and 350 merged.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. 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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Blackbaud Trend Haiti Benchmark 66

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,376 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 over last year.

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Blackbaud Trend Nonprofit Statistics 70

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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NTEN Conference Technology Blackbaud 48

sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,468 nonprofit organizations representing $2.25

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Blackbaud Trend Nonprofit Haiti 62

sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,412 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 over last year.

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Blackbaud Trend Nonprofit Statistics 58

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Key Trends in Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 7th, 2011 Blackbaud has released two new groundbreaking research studies that reveal insights about peer-to-peer event fundraising.

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Trend Blackbaud Fundraising Benchmark 72

sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 3 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 19th, 2011 This is the last day of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ). That’s it for NTC 2011.

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NTEN Conference Technology San Francisco 48

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

effective online (fundraising, email communications, social media, technology solutions). If you’ve been in the nonprofit industry for a while, you’ve likely heard that “direct mail is dead” or that offline fundraising is on the decline. Because Internet usage continues to skyrocket. It’s grown 34.5

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Offline Results Fundraising Time 67

sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending February 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. 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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Blackbaud Haiti Trend Arts 56

sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19

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Blackbaud Disaster Haiti Giving 62

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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