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Convio and Blackbaud: The NPTech Brady Bunch?

NTEN

You've probably heard by now that Blackbaud has announced it intends to acquire Convio in a roughly $240 million deal. As we all learned from " The Brady Bunch ", it's not the marriage that's interesting, it's what happens when the family blending begins. The fact is that the fundraising database market is HUGE.

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Why Diversifying Your P2P Strategy is Critical to your Organization’s Health

sgEngage

On the upside, it gave us freedom to try new ways of working towards our missions; on the downside, it exposed the lack of diversification in fundraising strategies. Much like we’re guided to diversify our stocks, diversifying your fundraising strategy can ensure your organization is set up to maintain funding no matter the crisis ahead.

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10 Ways to Unlock your School’s Giving Day Potential

sgEngage

Giving Days are time-sensitive fundraising events aimed at rallying communities to maximize engagement and donations to your institution and so much goes into running a successful one. The planning, preparation, execution and blend of multi-generational activities really comes together to make a community impact.

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Donor Privacy: Protecting Your Revenue and Reputation Online

OneCause

The Blackbaud Institute reports that in 2020, total online giving across the sector was up by 21% over 2019. Also consider that for many nonprofits, GivingTuesday marks the launch of their end-of-year fundraising campaign as they specifically target their mid-size and smaller dollar donors with online asks. Do you truly need them all?

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Harnessing Higher Education Advancement Technology to the Fullest

sgEngage

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. It cannot and should not be all about fundraising. As such, no longer can we think of our advancement system as just a ‘database ’.

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The Analytics Forecast:  Cloudy Days Ahead!

Connection Cafe

A combination of usage data and data hygiene/health provides the ability to blend analytics and UI into a predictive and smart user experience. Let me provide a simple example of smart software from Blackbaud’s new NXT solution. Smart Software. Here’s another vision type we’re working on that takes advantage of analytics data.