NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Will 2012 be pretty much like 2011? When NTEN asked whether I’d be willing to predict tech trends for in 2012, I, of course, asked my Magic 8 Ball™. It replied: Based on that, plus 27 years in the field, I foresee that 2012 will be pretty much like 2011. Weiner Consulting. it’s not cloud-based. it’s the cheapest.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 2.2%

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

We are happy to announce that the 2011 survey is underway – and that it is new and improved! > > Please take the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Survey! All of this information will be available in the first half of 2012. We don't think it's just about spending more money!).

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2012

In fact, Blackbaud’s 2011 Online Giving Report , noted that the largest online gift in 2011 was $260,000 ! The report further noted, “87% of the nonprofits in this analysis had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more during 2011.”. For information sought by our major gifts prospects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. One source of data informing this work is our annual State of the Sector Survey. Click here for more in-depth resources on the topic.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

Subject: Successful Credit Card Settlement Report. Text: Dear Customer, The following is your Credit Card settlement report for Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Transaction Volume Statistics for Settlement Batch dated 14-Aug-2012. Business Day: 14-Aug-2012. Click "Reports" from the main menu. Click "Run Report".

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. In 2011, 85% of respondents reported an increase in demand.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. As part of a. Why the difference?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

The price is lower than the recently reported $800 million figure, but still a formidable investment from the enterprise software giant, which is on a seemingly never-ending acquisition spree. Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011."

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

> Please take the 2011 NTEN Community Survey Each year NTEN surveys the nonprofit technology community (that's YOU) to ask: How do you use technology in your work? > Please take the 2011 NTEN Community Survey. What are the biggest nonprofit technology challenges for your organization?

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2014

The report, which analyzed data from 53 nonprofits, over 2.1 million online actions shed light on valuable information for nonprofits and their messaging. This information will be a great place to begin evaluating your own online progress. For example: Fundraising messaging response rates were down 11% from 2012 levels to 0.07%.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In a 2012 report, the National Chamber Foundation cited that Millennials have approximately “$200 billion of direct purchasing power and $500 billion of indirect spending.” National Chamber Foundation, 2012). NPQ, 2014) In 2010, the PEW Research Center put out a report titled “Millennials, A Portrait of Generation Next.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In a 2012 report, the National Chamber Foundation cited that Millennials have approximately “$200 billion of direct purchasing power and $500 billion of indirect spending.” National Chamber Foundation, 2012). NPQ, 2014) In 2010, the PEW Research Center put out a report titled “Millennials, A Portrait of Generation Next.”

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Make sure to check out their annual Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place in San Francisco, April 3-5 2012. ComScore reports that nearly 90 million Americans use their phone to read email – and that number grew by 28% over the past year. .” Just stop it. Stop and accept. ” line had taken over his mobile in-box.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. Sources: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Not Data Driven.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. In March of this year, The Virginia G.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. So what happened in 2011, and what are respondents planning for 2012?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 2011) For Love or Lucre. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from Stanford Social -Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring Leaders of Social Change: [link] [link]. 2012, January 10). Sources: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Case in point, YNPN’s 2011 survey of young nonprofit workers found that “commitment to remaining in a nonprofit job weakened as employees got older.” Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given that nonprofits must operate in a wide variety of complex environments, they must work diligently to continuously create innovate strategies to meet the needs and expectations of their diverse stakeholder populations (Benjamin, 2012). Performance evaluations serve as vehicles to message organizational mission realization and impact.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We recently released our most up-to-date Atlas of Giving report that takes a look at current giving trends to provide guidance for nonprofits on what to expect (and not to expect) as we finish out 2011 and roll into 2012. percent in 2011 through October. April 2012 is expected to be down 5.5 giving is up 7.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. .” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% Too many nonprofits have complicated donation forms that ask for unnecessary information. in the same period. The result?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions. percent in 2009. Finally, don’t panic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. The latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks 2011 , is in stock at TechSoup. Available in one- and three-user versions for Windows, QuickBooks 2011 Premier assists in paying bills and tracking expenses. Keep Files Safe.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” You guessed it, they'll go straight to 2012. Oh, memories.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2012

The latest chapter in my Millennial research reading spree came in the form of the third annual Millennial Impact Report. You can download the full report here. You can easily prevent this from happening by having clear giving categories on your donation form to inform donors before they donate ($150 will purchase one vaccine, etc.).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. In 2011 I gave to over twenty different nonprofit organizations. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provides the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 3,265 nonprofit organizations representing over $11.59 for the 3 months ending April 2013 as compared to the same period in 2012.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2012

You want to know how other organizations fundraising programs performed in 2011. You want to see where your organization stacks up in terms of goals for 2012. If you answered YES to any of the questions above, you should take the The 2012 Nonprofit Fundraising Survey conducted by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Your constituents now expect to receive relevant and interesting information in every email. It’s also been reported as the top tactic to deliver relevant and engaging content.*. Building in targeting capabilities.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Online donations seem to be on the raise, according to The 2012 Charitable Giving Report made by Blackbaud, “online giving grew 10.7% in 2012 compared to 2011”. Plan this on the long term and bear in mind the opportunities you will have to harvest such contact information. 2. Stop spamming.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Back in May 2012 we got the first announcements of a huge U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 2011 and is now its own nonprofit organization. I got a chance to talk to the C2C chief operating officer, Brian Vahaly, this week, and he reports that they are making headway. What Is Connect2Compete ? It was launched by the U.S.

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