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Donor-Advised Funds: Philanthropy’s Hot-Button Issue

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The Donor: Establish a DAF with a public charity, like a community foundation, or a charitable fund (Fidelity Charitable or the National Philanthropic Trust, for example). The amount contributed to DAFs since 2010 has also grown steadily in real dollars, as well as the percentage of giving by individuals. In 2010, there was a $24.6

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Social Media Lessons from 4 Generations of Canadian Donors

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The study, which builds on a similar study conducted in 2010, looked at the philanthropic habits of the following generations of Canadians: Generation Y (or Gen Y, born 1981 – 1995). LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%.

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Volunteers of America: Getting Results

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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%. Thanks Donna for contributing this excellent example of multichannel success! How’d they do it?

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Year-end Fundraising Domination!

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Overall, Convio clients raised 17 percent more online in the last three months of 2011 than in 2010. But, the real impact was made in December when our client’s year-end fundraising efforts came on like gangbusters—raising more than $30 million more online than in December 2010.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

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By using this feature, Convio clients will be able to do things like, for example, use the API to display a list of your organization's upcoming events on your website. The tech jargon (sorry, I tried): with the Winter release, Convio's Open API will support the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header.

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Priming Your Board for Fundraising

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“In our 2010 Nonprofit Governance Index, BoardSource found that 90% of the boards with a structured orientation process were rated as effective, compared to only 67% of the boards without such a process. For one set of examples, check out the free board resources from our friends at Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Mobile websites vs. apps - what's right for you?

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These are some good examples of nonprofit mobile sites. The advantages of apps are: they are good at helping the user focus on one thing that you want to highlight, and lend themselves well to location-based services like self-guided tours, for example. Right now the 2010 version is available, and the 2011 version is coming soon.

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