Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. Major web design competitions often have charity categories. Some of the most impressive ones include: Blue Drop Awards 2013 - Best Non-Profit Websites.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. The core mission is thereby freed from total dependence upon the decisions of donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Overhead is defined as a “percentage of a charity’s expenses that goes to administrative and fundraising costs” (Guidestar, 2014). The Overhead Myth is created when donors believe that nonprofits should keep these overhead expenses below a certain percentage of the nonprofit’s total expenditures – usually no more than 15 to 20 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013. More than 1.5

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In a major study of more than 800 Canadian donors that we at hjc recently completed with Blackbaud , Edge Research , and Sea Change Strategies , two big trends stood out: mobile fundraising and crowdfunding. But, how will these two trends help you reach each generation of Canadian donors? First, let’s look at the generations studied.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In our recent survey “ The Next Generation of American Giving ,” it was no surprise that Boomers and Matures report giving the most money to the most charities; they are more established financially and in their charitable values. They are truly multi-channel donors, and they want to hear about the impact of their donation. Matures (b.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Imagine for a moment that your organization has a declining donor base. Most of your loyal donors are older and, frankly, they’re dying. You need to find new donors, and have decided to focus on acquiring younger ones. This sounds wise since Gen Ys are future donors and they’re attached to their smart phones. But is it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

Fundraising is an undeniable part of the nonprofit sector, particularly for 501(c)(3) public charities. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics at The Urban Institute, 2013 saw $1.74 The days of major donors being completely cultivated and stewarded online are not here by any means.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Here are four more steps your team will want to incorporate into your digital community building: Scalability Creativity Urgency Amplification effect For examples and stories of how all of these steps are integral to digital community building join us at the NTEN 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, Saturday, April 13 at 10:30 a.m.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Tom Ahern makes his living by writing cases and direct mail … by doing audits, reviewing and recommending fixes for donor communications … and by teaching others what he’s learned during decades of trial, error and the occasional spectacular success. Hundreds, probably thousands, of items meant for donors … and built to fail.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. Let’s continue to focus on delivering multichannel giving experiences for donors. Donor behavior is keeping pace with consumer behavior. Hint: Donor behavior is consumer behavior.).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. Also, TechSoup Donor partner, Citrix , recently determined that the business PC market is actually growing, not shrinking.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2013. “For all our online donors, only one-third give a subsequent gift online,” said Donahue. With all donor age groups? For our donor database, we only have email addresses for a small percentage of our contacts and still see a lot of checks coming in via the mail. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 million views online and he is the keynote speaker at NTEN’s upcoming 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Will you get donors through a mobile app?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. You, your would-be donor, and society as a whole.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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