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MARCH 12, 2013

Donors still lack confidence in digital giving, survey finds : Polly Gowers of Give as you Live, which polled 8,000 people, says the research will help charities to focus their resources in the right places Digital giving channels are playing an increasingly important role in inspiring donations, but donors do not feel confident enough to give significant (..)

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

What Your Donors Won’t Tell You about Social Media - Clairification : Give your donors what they like. And many donors these days will never respond to a phone call. I’m not saying you shouldn’t phone or visit them at some point. But you’re better off connecting digitally than not at all. No matter how often you keep trying.'

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JUNE 24, 2015

Book Review: Plugging the leaky bucket of donors | Third Sector : "hat premise is underpinned by a 2013 study of nearly 2,500 organisations by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in the US, which found that only 65 per cent of them retained new recruits long enough to receive a second donation.

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APRIL 22, 2014

95% of donors cover charities'' transaction costs on Blackbaud Heroix | UK Fundraising : Blackbaud’s Heroix online giving platform has started inviting donors to increase their donation to cover the transaction and card fees, ensuring that charities receive 100% of each donation.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Pitting Data Against Donor Privacy | The NonProfit Times : They might not be National Security Agency spies, but prospect researchers have more and easier access to data than ever.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Reaching Donors in Real Time – Wherever They Are | Third Sector Today : While the number of nonprofits ready and eager to change the world is growing steadily, only a few can rely on direct donations and large, active donors every day.

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MARCH 16, 2011

How Not to Thank an Online Donor During a Disaster - Thanking an Online Donor AFter a Disaster: "I decided to see what charities were doing in response to online donations given to help Japan. So I donated a small amount online to several charities, specifically for relief efforts in Japan.The result?

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JUNE 6, 2013

Online Fundraising - What Donors Want to See on Your Website : It is tempting to think that websites are less important in this age of social media. But, as a recent report on young people revealed, the website may be more important than ever.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Celebrities Competing Online For Donors - TheNonProfitTimes : A dozen celebrities representing as many charities have one month to raise as much money as they can with an ultimate prize of winning $25,000. But the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, launched by Crowdrise and Mozilla, isn’t limited to the 12 celebrities.

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JULY 11, 2012

Staying Attached To Untethered Donors - TheNonProfitTimes : More people are reading emails on mobile devices than on desktop computers. It’s no longer an option but a veritable requirement to code emails for mobile optimization.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Donor Development and the Marriage of Quantitative and Qualitative Data | Nonprofit Quarterly : "How do qualitative and quantitative data help in your fundraising? From data about nonprofits themselves to the data that nonprofits use to woo donors, we have no dearth of information about the nonprofit relationship with, well, information.

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JULY 3, 2012

Consumers, i.e., Donors, Starting To Like Tumblr - TheNonProfitTimes : Tumblr, to me, is a great platform to reach a new, young audience,” said Rochee Jeffrey, FB’s social media coordinator. The virality factor is fairly high.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Big Charities Court Young Donors With Bitcoin Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "Big Charities Court Young Donors With Bitcoin Fundraising Seeking a foothold with younger, digitally minded donors, more major nonprofits are accepting gifts in Bitcoin and promoting their friendliness with the virtual currency, The Wall Street Journal writes (..)

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APRIL 13, 2015

Some related material collected here [link] Big Charities Court Young Donors With Bitcoin Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "Big Charities Court Young Donors With Bitcoin Fundraising Seeking a foothold with younger, digitally minded donors, more major nonprofits are accepting gifts in Bitcoin and promoting their friendliness with the virtual (..)

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JUNE 12, 2012

Charities open their finances to donors via smartphone apps – USATODAY.com : Potential donors in New Jersey and Washington state can already check out charities on their smartphones before they write checks. Other states are likely to follow, says Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Content Marketing Can be King For Donors | The NonProfit Times : More than nine out of 10 nonprofit marketers, or 92 percent, use content marketing, but only 26 percent consider themselves effective at it. One-quarter has a documented content strategy. tech firm Blackbaud.'

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Digital Annual Reports Click With Donors - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : "The trend of interactive, digital annual reports has been gaining steam since at least 2011, according to Scott Martin, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Hauppauge, N.Y.-headquartered headquartered design firm Curran and Connors. “It

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JULY 17, 2014

10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness | Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology : Here are 10 different ways your nonprofit can segment its donors to improve communication for your next email donation campaign.'

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

How #GivingTuesday Can Help Your Nonprofit Reach PhilanthroKids or Generation Z Donors | Beth’s Blog : " GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum, a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit." ''via Blog this'''

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APRIL 27, 2010

Enhancing the Donor Experience : FundRaising Success: "n her presentation at the 47th AFP International Conference on Fundraising in Baltimore earlier this month, Bridget Brandt, senior marketing manager at Sage Nonprofit Solutions, discussed some keys to creating loyal donors through their experiences with your organization.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Marie Curie grows visitor time and donor numbers online by a quarter after digital relaunch : "Marie Curie set out to improve its use of digital after realising that it was “limiting its future” by neglecting it, and increased online donors and time visitors spent on the site by a quarter, its head of digital said yesterday. " 'via Blog this'

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Save the Elephants engages potential donors using Google Street View » Charity Digital News : "oogle has released Street View imagery of Kenya—including the Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust—in partnership with Save the Elephants and with the support of the Samburu County Government.

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MAY 6, 2014

A first impression for big donor prospects | The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times'

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JULY 25, 2011

Donors’ Pledges to Reconstruct Haiti Come up Empty | UN Dispatch : "Back in March 2010, when the devastating earthquake in Haiti was still making headline news, UN member states pledged over $9 billion for Haiti’s reconstruction – including $5.3 billion for 2010-2011."

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MARCH 22, 2012

Online Donations Bring the Middle East and Africa Closer to American Donors | Wamda.com : The good news is this figure has also been steadily increasing in the last few years. such as the Middle East and Africa, could potentially benefit if the Internet can help bring international causes closer to American donors.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older - Press - AFP : Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older (Nov.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Deadline extended for Colorado Gives after nonprofit donors overload computer | The Republic : Colorado Gives Day began Tuesday beginning at 12 a.m. Organizers decided to extend the one-day promotion because high demand on the website led to delays and computer problems.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Video: Young Donors React to Online Appeals - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Young donors want to know where their money is going and what their gifts will accomplish.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Non-profits should not forget online platforms when reaching out to potential donors | Business | Kentucky.com : Online is an important channel for nonprofits to include in their fundraising practices, and the options for online fundraising include much more than just a donate button on the organization''s website.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

The South Jersey Sun - Goodwill uses technology to help donors in Mt Laurel : To make things more convenient, Goodwill Industries, of Southern NJ & Philadelphia has installed computerized donation kiosks at all of its donation centers and unveiled state-of-the-art iDonate technology that enables donors to track their giving online, 24-7.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

College Football Rivalry Reaches Young Donors Via Technology: "Together both schools boast enrollment of fewer than 10,000 students. Thousands of alumni, students and friends of both colleges will visit or watch from locations inside and outside of the country.Both schools are hoping thousands give online or via text as well.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Colleges Mine Social Media for Clues on Likely Donors – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "A handful of tech start-ups are making tools that harness data and interactions from widely used social networks to help colleges and universities identify alumni with the greatest propensity to donate, writes The New York Times. " (..)

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JULY 24, 2013

Donors Who Give by Text Want to Give More, Study Finds - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Donors who give via text message would like to make larger gifts using their mobile phones, according to a new survey of more than 20,000 text-message donors.

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MARCH 19, 2014

And 6 of the Least - Tech Philanthropy | Donors | Foundations - Inside Philanthropy : On balance, we think that generosity is important no matter where one is in their career trajectory. Meet the 12 Most Generous Tech Leaders. And what we''d say to super wealthy techies who are perplexed by where to give their money is: Get a cause.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Video: Young Donors Want Fewer Words but More Information - Marketing and Communications - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Video: Young Donors Want Fewer Words but More Information Third in a series of videos By Cody Switzer Young donors want a lot of information when they visit a nonprofit''s (..)

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JUNE 23, 2011

Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: The Generational Divide (Panel Discussion) : "oday, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Andrew "Bo" Young's GiveLocally Connects Donors and Recipients on the Internet - Cascade, GA Patch : "It is an unusual concept,” said Michael Nelson, who is with the Association of Fundraising Professionals. I’ve seen it with schools but I haven’t seen it done quite this way.”.

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