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Have You Outgrown Your Membership Database?

Wild Apricot

In our recent Blog Reader Survey, membership growth/acquisition ranked as the second most important issue facing small membership-based organizations for 2011, just behind member communications and engagement. read more ). read more ).

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A Guide to Donor Retention

Bloomerang

Each year, FEP releases the findings of its annual survey. One aspect of this survey is about average donor retention rates over the years. This can make a huge impact on the number of donors in your donor database from year to year. Surveying donors. Attrition Rate (Percentage Lost). Donors Remaining After 1 Year.

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Want your product covered in Idealware’s Donor Management report?

Robert Weiner

Idealware is updating its 2009 report on low-cost donor databases. The survey deadline is Feb. 4, 2011, so don't delay.

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Decide how information can be efficiently and realistically gathered utilizing the different methods that are best for your organization including: Surveys - Consider what features you will need.

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

Amy Sample Ward

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others? ""

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Some Findings from the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report

NTEN

NTEN member and nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller just released the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , based on a survey of over 1200 participants at the end of 2011. Moreso than donation databases, nonprofits value websites and email marketing as parts of their core organizational data infrastructure.

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Report Release: The First "State of the Nonprofit Cloud" Report

NTEN

In the second half of 2011, when we set out to look at the “State of the Nonprofit Cloud”, we weren’t sure what to expect—and what we found after surveying US nonprofits and conducting follow-up interviews was that it’s somewhat.

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