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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Examples from Haiti.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools.

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Top 4 Online Fundraising Tactics Your Nonprofit Can’t Live Without

NetWits

The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. Since 2010 was an abnormal year for online giving - due to the wave of offerings for Haiti’s earthquake relief - many organizations received a gift that year, but never heard back from the donor.

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Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies. magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010.

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7 Secrets to Increasing Online Fundraising Results and Wowing Donors

NetWits

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. For more information, download Blackbaud’s free 2011 Online Giving Report.

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Text-to-Give Explained

The Modern Nonprofit

The “Text HAITI to 90999” campaign that the American Red Cross used to solicit donations for Haiti earthquake relief in 2010 is a popular example of this method. And most importantly, because the donation is going through your donor’s phone carrier, your nonprofit doesn’t receive any information on who donated.

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