Care2

DECEMBER 14, 2012

People donated more money to charity in 2012 than in 2011, according to a Blackbaud survey , where over 4200 donors from the US, the UK, and Australia responded to a variety of questions about their donation habits to nonprofits. one-time donations increased from 2011 to 2012. Check out the some of interesting data below. In the U.S.

Charity 75

Charity Donation People Australia 75

Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2013

Here are a few mobile trends that will begin to impact nonprofits : Mobile SEO. It’s soon going to become even more important for nonprofits to track these baseline metrics. 41% of email was opened on mobile devices in the second half of 2012. It’s predicted to be 30% of all traffic by the end of next year.

Mobile 42

Mobile Trend Analytics Search 42

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Created in November of 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement to inspire generosity around the world. Once you know what worked and what didn’t, you can start looking at the current trends in fundraising to create the best GivingTuesday campaign to maximize your donor acquisition and retention.

Template 98

Template Retention Stream Social Media 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates. This was my third visit to the country. Transparency.

Learning 86

Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Here is a Year-Over-Year comparison of our survey responses to technology staffing questions for the last three years: The key things we notice here are: The significant diffence between tech staffing levels reported in 2010 as compared to 2011 and 2012. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

Ratio 85

Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization. In addition to financial measures, charities will now be rated on the results of their work.

Research 82

Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We’ll draw from recent experiences in setting up an active advisory group made up of NGO partners from all corners of the globe; our network-wide campaign to survey NGO technology trends in 24 languages; and, our own technology solution to communicating with these partners to deliver services in 37 countries. Lara Franklin.

Conference 44

Conference Technology San Francisco Disaster 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. In the preliminary analysis we are seeing some useful trends and some areas that will require more examination.

Benchmark 103

Benchmark Social Media Global Project 103

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. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” In which formats?

Social Media 100

Social Media Channel Data Media 100

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?

Measure 99

Measure Roles Support Literacy 99

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2016

To put that in perspective, the year before the first #GivingTuesday in 2012, there were just $6.6 Since its 2012 inception, #GivingTuesday has experienced a 317% increase in online donations over the past five years. There were 97% more nonprofits receiving online donations in 2016 than in 2012.

Digital 20

Digital Blackbaud Mobile Rate 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Colleagues Zan McColloch-Lussier and Peter Drury managing the back channel, the Twitter was rich with almost 1,000 tweets and the hashtag #kantersea trended locally. I pulled together a curated collection of the best tweets on storify , but here are a few tweets that resonated. 2 What is the metric to track. Defining Impact.

Seattle 98

Seattle Measure Data Hosting 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. This figure is a good top line indicator of whether you are, in fact, engaging your Alumni. You want to watch the number and how it is trending. John Hadyon suggests not calling it posting, but planting seeds.

Practice 107

Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. ." 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach.

Web 117

Web Indiana Case Study Bookmarking 117

Connection Cafe

JUNE 16, 2016

Macroeconomic Trends. Since 1974, this metric has ranged from 1.7% for three of the four years between 2012 and 2015. The new trends reported by Giving USA are helpful to understand changes in the nonprofit giving landscape. Giving to foundations has grown the least over a 2-year time period with 2.8% Looking Ahead.

Giving 20

Giving Nepal Indiana Trend 20

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

To put that in perspective, the year before the first #GivingTuesday in 2012, there were just $6.6 Let’s continue the trend of YoY Giving Tuesday growth ! Blackbaud processed more than $47.7 million in online donations from U.S. nonprofits on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. million in online donations processed. Thank you’ messages.

Campaign 48

Campaign Create Giving Org 48

Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2012

According to the 2012 Nonprofit benchmark Social Network Benchmarking Report, 98% of nonprofits didn’t raise a dime on Facebook, which is second most trafficked site on the web in the U.S. As you have probably experienced yourself, raising money for your nonprofit campaign on social media is like pulling teeth.

Social Media 78

Social Media Raise Money Media 78

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. Surprising demographics to target for outreach in 2016.

Professional 20

Professional Causes NGO News 20

Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

It has been described as the ladder of engagement, and has been used to famous effect by the Obama campaign in 2012. Keep up with trending topics and conversations that happen in other communities. Search for relevant and trending hashtags to jump into a discussion. The concept of increasing levels of engagement is not new.

Websites 37

Websites Strategy Content Nonprofit 37

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels.

Celebrate 68

Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

NTEN

APRIL 9, 2014

Here are 8 big trends that emerged from the nonprofits we surveyed: The average one-time online donation amount to a nonprofit was $68 in 2013. Online giving was up 14% in 2013, with monthly giving revenue up 25% compared to 2012. Key email metrics, including open rates and response rates, declined in 2013. per website visitor.

Benchmark 98

Benchmark Studies Report Advocacy 98

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels.

Celebrate 46

Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Here are the other winners of Nonprofit Impact Awards: Best Interactive Campaign – Heifer International – Heifer International needed to develop a fundraising campaign that would stand out among others and engage donors during the busy 2012 holiday season. Read the case study. Read the case study.

Case Study 41

Case Study Syria Blackbaud API 41

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Back by popular demand was Steve MacLaughlin’s analysis of the 200 email subject lines sent to him from nonprofits between December 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. Steve MacLaughlin confessed that he used to believe that online average gift size was a vanity metric. That is until he learned to love really dig into the data.

Meme 51

Meme Ideas Content Generation 51

Care2

JANUARY 12, 2012

The infographic “Where and Why People Donated their Time and Money in 2010/2011 Trends” provides some great data that is worth noting as you craft your fundraising strategies for 2012. To do this effectively though, you need to understand what motivates donors to contribute money to charity.

Charity 73

Charity Trend Donation Support 73

Care2

JANUARY 12, 2012

The infographic “Where and Why People Donated their Time and Money in 2010/2011 Trends” provides some great data that is worth noting as you craft your fundraising strategies for 2012. To do this effectively though, you need to understand what motivates donors to contribute money to charity.

Charity 61

Charity Trend Donation Support 61