Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

The 2011 Millennial Donor report , the second in an annual series, focuses on engaging Millennials in fundraising. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. It’s an interesting and valuable report with a lot of great insights.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From brainstorming new fundraising ideas to reaching out to prospective donors, nonprofits use much of their team members’ time to figure out how to raise more money. As a result, these organizations can gain new connections with like-minded businesses and expand their networks. Increased exposure. Higher employee engagement.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Both of these organizations have been able to figure out how to bring people together across ages, cultures, etc. The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. The fiscal responsibility of your organization. Please be safe!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Working on our 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we noticed something interesting when looking at year-over-year data by sector: The share of online revenue from monthly giving for International groups seemed to decline from 2009 to 2010. We decided to do some deeper digging to see if we were right!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Today's good news is that the checkout services will be free for another year (until January 1, 2011), but only for nonprofits also enrolled in Google Grants for free advertising. During a recent disaster-relief campaign, Google decided to run tests on various suggested donations to see which one yielded the best results. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

TechSoup Global's partner in Germany, Stifter-Helfen.de – IT for Nonprofits , has been collecting case studies from the organizations it works with over the last year. Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The organization is a volunteer-staffed nonprofit that’s dedicated to timely disaster response and relief assistance. Historically, like many nonprofits, All Hands Volunteers had siloed data, with volunteer data and donor data housed in three different systems. million in 2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Kickstarter is a perfect place for nonprofits to appeal to small-time donors. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011. More than 1.5 Disruptor: Causecast.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19

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Achieve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Built-in marketing tools and a simple donation process make it easy for donors to give and pass along your mission to their networks, enabling you to reach a global audience. Additionally, some donors with smaller giving capacities may opt out of giving completely because they're unsure if their gifts will make a difference.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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Care2

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Network for Good turned ten a couple of weeks ago and to celebrate, they've created an infographic that shows how the online donor has evolved over the decade. Some key signs that online donations have gone mainstream are the prevalence of disaster relief gifts. What has changed for your organization over the last decade?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Compare that to the $290 billion in total fundraising in the United States according to Giving USA 2011. Keep in mind that 92% of giving still comes from offline channels and that 32% of online donors switch to give through offline channels. In non-disaster fundraising, The Communities Foundation of Texas raised $10.7

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

In recent months, there have been numerous media reports of significant giving surges to nonprofit organizations following the 2016 U.S. And this next phase brings together the powerful sentiments of activists with the much needed support of donors. Today, we now know the answer is: Yes.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 12th, 2011 One year ago a devastating 7.0 Nonprofit organizations responded to the disaster and so did their supporters. The Chronicle has a very good breakdown of what organizations raised and what has been spent so far. Is your nonprofit organization doing something similar?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking How Nonprofits Can Avoid Online Credit Card Fraud Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 20th, 2011 Nonprofit organizations are a big target for online credit card fraud. Here are steps organizations can take: 1.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Invitations to participate in the survey were sent by the six partner organizations to their constituents. 37% of charities reported a decrease in giving, a noticeable improvement over 2009 when 51% of organizations reported a decline. For the responding organizations in the International sub-sector, 60% expect an increased budget.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Key Trends in Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 7th, 2011 Blackbaud has released two new groundbreaking research studies that reveal insights about peer-to-peer event fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2013

charitable giving and estimates sources of giving and amounts received by type of organization. Established in 1956 by the American Association of Fundraising Counsel, now The Giving Institute and is made possible by contributions from The Giving Institute member firms, foundations, and other donors. Disaster Giving.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software. Plus, they take your organization's security one step further with firewalls to block phishing, adware, and intrusion.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,412 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 Medium sized organization, those with annual revenue between $1 and $10 million, continue to struggle with a decrease of 5.8%

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. The nonprofit lesson: Organizations deal with tough challenges every day. The best way to engage with every single stakeholder.from donors to board members to community partners.is Which will make your organization stronger, too.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

consulted financial/wealth advisors when making charitable decisions 55% of high net worth households gave their largest gift in 2009 to fund general operations at nonprofit organizations 54.6% made a donation in 2009 to a private foundation, a donor-advised fund, or a charitable trust 7.9% s network of friends/peers 72.4%

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. I analyzed 320 email messages sent to me from 55 nonprofit organizations between December 1st and 31st, 2013. There were 22 nonprofit organizations that sent 24 email messages on #GivingTuesday.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2010 Online Giving Trends Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on February 15th, 2011 Blackbaud released its 2010 Online Giving Report today. growth by large organizations. Smaller nonprofits grew by 22% and medium organizations grew by 15.9%

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. She is one of our great online community organizers. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. He is known in NPTechland as one of the great ones who has helped many organizations.

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