article thumbnail

2011 Online Giving Trends and 5 Tactics Your Nonprofit Must Implement Today

NetWits

In our 2011 Online Giving Report we’ve combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. Here’s a few of the highlights … Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. 2011 Online Giving Report. of the 34.8%.

Trend 268
article thumbnail

2011 Online Giving Trends and 5 Tactics Your Nonprofit Must Implement Today

Tech Soup

In our 2011 Online Giving Report we've combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multiyear giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. of online giving happened in October, November, and December of 2011. of the 34.8%.

Trend 50
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Email Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid

NetWits

As we move into the last month of the year, let’s take a quick look at how you can improve your email newsletters and appeals in 2011. Sending an e-newsletter out with the same subject line each time is guaranteed to make your readers yawn. Your call to action is at the bottom of the email.

email 180
article thumbnail

Major Gifts and a $260,000 Online Donation

NetWits

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.”. . — Larger and larger gifts are being given online.

Gift 133
article thumbnail

Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Need a Mobile Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, text alerts are limited to 160 characters, so if you want to do a call to action or inform your subscribers beyond a 160 characters, then you are going to need a mobile website/page to do it. It will surely stretch into 2011 and beyond, but 2010 is definitely the year to reap the benefits of early adoption. population!).

Mobile 208
article thumbnail

If You Do Nothing Else, Use An Editorial Calendar and Measurement for Your Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. The 2014 version – new and improved has arrived! Great idea!

Calendar 106
article thumbnail

[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We track amount raised, number of donors, and number of action takers from social media, as well as some other social media-esque metrics like fan base growth over time, sentiment, and user engagement (number of comments, number of likes, etc). What is on your To Do List for 2011? Absolutely email. Re-evaluating our Facebook strategy.