2012 Year-End Fundraising Email Analysis
NetWits
JANUARY 31, 2013
Despite the trend that additional emails have helped increase the total number of transactions without compromising open rates, the 2012 results told a slightly different story.
Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!
Candid
JULY 27, 2023
2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. 2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S.
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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates
NetWits
APRIL 5, 2013
It contains online fundraising, advocacy, email, social, and mobile results from 55 U.S.-based based national nonprofits in 2012. One of the eye-catching findings from the study was the steep decline in the performance of fundraising emails in 2012. percent to 4.5 percent over the past year. What’s to blame?
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Giving Tuesday 2021: Predictions, Stats & Facts
Whole Whale
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Based on our analysis that incorporates an adjusted linear regression, trends in Google Search terms around “Giving Tuesday,” and national giving trends, we predict that $3.048 Billion will be raised on Giving Tuesday 202 1. since 2012. Giving Tuesday 2012 stats. of the 2012 GDP ($15,553.8 Online Course.
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Announcing New Study: The 2012 Nonprofit Donor Engagement Study
NTEN
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
NTEN partnered with Charity Dynamics to conduct the 2012 Nonrprofit Donor Engagement Study. Additional commentary and analysis of the study’s results from the recent Charity Dynamics/NTEN joint webinar also is available via recording online here.
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73 2012 Accounting Tools Are Here!
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Find out what other organizations are doing in our Accounting Tools Survey results. Both of these programs include basic accounting tools and functions such as bookkeeping, printing checks and invoices, profit and loss analysis, and tracking expenses, payments, and inventory. Accounting Software from Sage and Acclivity.
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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit?
Whole Whale
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
About Company : Founded in 2012, Google acquired in 2019 for $2.6bn and has included in Google Cloud Platform. About Company : Founded in 2012 as Sonalight, they were taken public in 2021 with a market cap of $7.1bn. Data Set : A data set is a collection of data that can be used for analysis. Mixpanel – Wikipedia.
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Why Does a Nonprofit Organization Need SEO?
NonProfit Hub
AUGUST 26, 2021
As long as competitive analysis is done, any size nonprofit can be on the top of the search results in their field—including your nonprofit. If you can’t be found in the search results, you are likely missing out on valuable donations that can help advance your nonprofit’s mission. Why Optimize A Nonprofit Website for SEO?
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Embrace the Data, Change the World
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. What resonated with the crowd (based on a quick sample of tweets), was the idea of using a failfest to share what didn’t work and look at ways to improve results. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. @ kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/.
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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making
NTEN
JANUARY 28, 2013
Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”
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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Patrick Meier has this excellent “ behind the scenes ” post from April, 2012. He points the common challenge in using social media data for emergency response: scaling. Do you need sentiment analysis? Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”
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Crypto is Not Broken
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
By Patrick Ball On 14 February 2012, the New York Times reported that a Swiss team had found a weakness in a key algorithm used to make secure connections online. On 15 February 2012, another team (Heninger et al.) released similar results. Experts we've talked with have told us that the analysis by Heninger et al.
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Case Study on How Not to Design a Data Driven Experiment
NTEN
AUGUST 22, 2013
In late spring of 2012, one thing that had been on my radar for awhile was an interesting correlation between our membership renewal rates and event registrations. Specifically, members who had registered for at least one NTEN event over the course of the year were 37% more likely to renew.
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New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 18, 2012
The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers.
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Why Does a Nonprofit Organization Need SEO?
NonProfit Hub
AUGUST 26, 2021
As long as competitive analysis is done, any size nonprofit can be on the top of the search results in their field—including your nonprofit. If you can’t be found in the search results, you are likely missing out on valuable donations that can help advance your nonprofit’s mission. Why Optimize A Nonprofit Website for SEO?
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#GivingTuesday Online Donations Up 36% from 2013
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 3, 2014
The third annual #GivingTuesday was held on December 2, 2014 and the results continue to be extremely positive. The #GivingTuesday analysis is based on over 4,300 nonprofit organizations that received at least one online donation on #GivingTuesday 2014. Since the inaugural #GivingTuesday in 2012, overall online giving is up 159%.
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How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 29, 2013
Yet there is widespread disappointment with how most conferences and workshops are organized and the level of results that they’re able to achieve. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.
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Why Funders Need to Get Out of the Kitchen and Let the Nonprofits Cook More
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 15, 2012
The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Recent TCC Group research, based on an analysis of reliable and valid organizational assessments for over 2000 nonprofit organizations nationwide, found that one of the best ways is by not meddling too much with nonprofits’ program design.
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Jump In Now to the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
advertising, surveys, reporting, and business analysis. OK — confession time — I love data — but the data from the State of Grantseeking Survey has real, valuable results that can impact the grantseeking success of nonprofits. which is equally as powerful as contrasting your organization to the national results.
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Major Gifts and a $260,000 Online Donation
NetWits
APRIL 12, 2012
The report further noted, “87% of the nonprofits in this analysis had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more during 2011.”. But in 2012, as our major donors and prospects give more online, our online presence needs to support our offline major gifts fundraising efforts. >> Or is this the giving of major gifts online?
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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 17, 2012
But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.” 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. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?
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Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2012
The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Whatever raw data is put out there and no matter how sincere the invitation to dive in and swim around in it… few people, if any, end up being willing to spend time to actually do the analysis if they’re not paid to do it.
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92 Learning in Public: To What End?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2012
The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. I have to admit it sounded more than a little daunting for several reasons.
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94 How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?
ASU Lodestar Center
APRIL 18, 2017
In early 2012, The Nonprofit Research Collaborative collected data from almost 1,800 nonprofit organizations on board engagement and reported: “Survey results show organizations that have engaged board members are more likely to meet fundraising goals.” Nonprofit Research Collaborative (2012). Nonprofit Quarterly , 2.
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70 Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter
NTEN
JANUARY 30, 2013
As our own 2012 State of Nonprofit Data Report showed, 99% of organizations are already in the practice of collecting and tracking various types of data and metrics about their work and tactics -- but a very few indicate that this data is useful for progammatic decision-making.
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96 Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2013
Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.
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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 2, 2013
Google has launched Analytics Academy , a three-week online course t three-week course offers the basics for those seeking to understand the how to improve results through better digital measurement. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Best practices for collecting actionable data.
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Online Fundraising Shows Strong Gains - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas
AFP Blog
APRIL 26, 2013
Online Fundraising Shows Strong Gains - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Explore Online Fundraising Results, by Quarter The Chronicle uses online fundraising data provided quarterly by Blackbaud, Network for Good, and PayPal to analyze online giving.
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 13, 2012
The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. I’m here at the 2012 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in Seattle – which is aptly nicknamed “The Emerald City.” Participants at this conference are talking about a “paradigm shift” from evaluation to learning.
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92 Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.
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How to Get Started Using Event Metrics for Fundraising Success
Connection Cafe
JUNE 13, 2013
Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success.
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Nonprofits: Keep Calm and Mobile Friendly
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 22, 2015
Starting April 21, dubbed “Mobilegeddon” , Google changed the search results and will show mobile friendly sites in search results (while using your mobile phone). You can test your web site here and find out if you passed the test and if you flunked it, there is some advice on what and how to fix it.
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Cool App Roundup: Election Edition
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Mashable recently called 2012 the " year of the mobile election." for iOS devices provides up-to-the minute access to poll results for. Prefer to listen to your political news and analysis? Mashable's in-depth discussion of how mobile is affecting the 2012 elections. Registering and Protecting Voters.
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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The presentation draws from a 2012 survey of the “ Always On Generation ” that provides insights from experts on the benefits and drawbacks of a hyperconnected life and how it is rewiring the young people’s brains. . One possible outcome is stagnation in innovation.
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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?
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). She holds a B.S
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40 What's So Scary about Cloud Security?
Tech Soup
AUGUST 16, 2012
It’s a pro and con analysis that points out hackers are more likely to target big cloud servers than your little office server. Finally, if you haven’t seen it, I recommend NTEN’s 2012 State of the Nonprofit Cloud Report , which is based on survey results of U.S. What the NTEN Cloud Survey Report Says.
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67 How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 25, 2011
Dan observes, “Overall, the response was positive that such analysis allows the team to be more intentional about weaving a national network for a specific campaign/advocacy outcome.&#. NGOs that build social capital and weave their networks can achieve better results. They used sticky notes to visualize the network.
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124 7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 8, 2014
Nostalgia is much more than mere reminiscing; it’s a warm, fuzzy emotion that we feel when we think about fond memories from our past. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all.
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Socialnomics Book Report
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 29, 2011
The 2012 Summer Reading List for me included some light reading like The Confession (ok maybe that one wasn't so light.) “Only five percent of users go to the second page” of search engine results. Author: Cheryl Black. Remember back in sixth grade when you had a summer reading list?
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Charitable Giving Grew to $373.25 Billion in the U.S. in 2015
Connection Cafe
JUNE 16, 2016
for three of the four years between 2012 and 2015. Another resource for nonprofits to use to understand the latest giving trends is The Blackbaud Index , which reports on both overall charitable giving trends and online giving results on a monthly basis. This is based on an analysis of $19.7 Disposable income increased 3.7%
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3 Nonprofits Aim to Better Connect with Donors
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
The firm analyzed the Zoo’s mailing list and the results of a survey the Zoo had conducted that asked donors what interested them the most at the Zoo. The analysis found that donors who cared most about conservation and research, animal care, and general zoo activities gave more than other donors. Don’t avoid them.
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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 5, 2012
I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Participants will retain what they learned, it sticks.
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25 SMART Social Media Objectives
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 1, 2011
Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted. Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Acquire 100 new donors through Facebook Causes by June 30, 2012.
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See You at NTC 2012 in San Francisco Next Week!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 29, 2012
I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. Innogive Conference. What are the go-to tools?
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