50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics
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FEBRUARY 17, 2014
Here are 50 fascinating nonprofit statistics you might not have known. 50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics from Steve MacLaughlin.
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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 4, 2018
As a nonprofit organization, which factor do you believe best showcases the success of your mission? Programmatic statistics related to mission impact. As with many multiple-choice tests, there is only one answer here that makes sense: programmatic statistics related to mission impact. Overhead to program expense ratio.
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Wealth Screening Versus Modeling: Making the Best Choice for your Healthcare Organization
Connection Cafe
MARCH 12, 2018
A well-run grateful patient program—one that supports top-notch clinical care, nurtures true philanthropy, and is efficient and effective to manage—is at the top of the list for many healthcare organizations. First, understand what “best potential donor” means to your organization. Rightfully so. Where do you start?
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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Corporations and their Stakeholders
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 6, 2021
As an organization that was created more than a decade ago to help corporations further engage their employees in social responsibility, YourCause, a Blackbaud solution, has preached the business case for CSR to companies for quite some time.
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50 Fascinating Philanthropy Stats
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Statistics help tell a story about what has happened and what is on the verge of happening. At least that’s been my experience over the past decade working with nonprofit organizations. I have used statistics and data points to help tell people different stories about what is happening in and around the nonprofit sector.
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20 The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 119: Leading for Innovation
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Innovation is a big buzzword today, but what does it actually mean for social good organizations to innovate? Today’s episode, recorded at bbcon 2019 in Nashville features Kyla Shawyer of DSIL, an agency that works with organizations to innovate through systems changes and human-centered design. Statistics on worker engagement.
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4 Ways to Support Your Nonprofit’s Outreach with Direct Mail
Connection Cafe
MARCH 26, 2021
To be specific, many nonprofit organizations rely heavily on digital marketing due to its relatively low cost and quick delivery rates. However, your campaign is also competing with hundreds of similar organizations to get noticed. However, this isn’t to say that your nonprofit should launch multiple distinct marketing campaigns.
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Preparing for the Season of Giving: Steps to Ready Your Year-End Appeal
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
Organizations, large and small, should capitalize on the Season of Giving. A year-end appeal is powerful and creates exposure for your organization by educating others on your past, current and future efforts. Taking advantage of the Season of Giving is essential to your organization, so let’s get started on your end-of-year campaign.
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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 101: Building Trust and Accountability with Donor Statements
Connection Cafe
JUNE 6, 2019
Has your organization better connected finance and development and you’re now looking for what you can do next to ensure sustainable mission success? Tying statistics and impact stories together. If one organization does it, then donors get used to it.”. How the donor statement helps build trust. Financial Management Toolkit.
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Peer to Peer Fundraising is Changing—Are You Keeping Up?
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The events studied were run by 171 nonprofit organizations and encompass over 10.9 The study takes a deep dive into the metrics, statistics, and trends of four different peer-to-peer fundraising event types: cycling, endurance, 5Ks and walks. million event participants and $1.23 billion in event revenue.
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To Analyze or Not to Analyze… That is the Question
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 2, 2013
So your organization mails to the same group of prospects for your annual giving program year after year, looking at LYBUNTs, SYBUNTs, etc., There are many options for doing this, whether you embark on a statistical analysis on your own or hire a vendor to do this analysis.
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Is Your Online Donation Form Turning Off Donors?
Connection Cafe
MAY 3, 2018
At NextAfter, we’re in the middle of conducting a field study on how organizations respond to certain giving situations, and part of that study involved us making a massive amount of anonymous donations on main donation pages across just about every different nonprofit vertical. statistically significant DECREASE in giving revenue.
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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
Connection Cafe
MARCH 7, 2017
The perception that this is a problem “over there” allows us to overlook the very real data about gender inequality including, but not limited to, the continuing and disturbing statistics on: violence against women, the gender pay gap, and the under-representation of women in leadership roles in governments and companies globally.
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It’s Time to Get Ready for Giving Tuesday!
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 29, 2018
The beauty of #GivingTuesday is that it offers an even footing for social good organizations of all sizes. In fact, perhaps one of the most encouraging statistics of last year’s #Giving Tuesday is this one: Large organizations represented only 57 percent of revenue in 2017. Register now!
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Why You Need to Broaden Your Organization’s Funding Horizons
Connection Cafe
MARCH 20, 2019
Download the full report to learn how to develop a stable, sustainable, and supported organization. There is no question that without charitable dollars, nonprofit organizations could not fund their missions and work. For some organizations, this question reveals tremendous vulnerability and fragility.
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Harnessing Big Data to Sustain Peer-to-Peer Revenue Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic
Connection Cafe
APRIL 9, 2020
For this, we look to personas derived from complex statistical models. As a result, they uncovered nine distinct data-driven personas that will help organizations better connect with their supporters and ultimately increase P2P campaign revenue. Recently, Blackbaud data scientists performed a cluster analysis of 1.4 Nonprofits.
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Mid-Year Appeals: Boost Fundraising in the Second Biggest Giving Month of the Year!
Connection Cafe
MAY 30, 2018
Organizations large and small should capitalize on this opportunity. A mid-year appeal is powerful and creates additional exposure for your organization by educating others on your past, current and future efforts. Make sure to use simple verbiage and keep statistics to a minimum. The Acknowledgement .
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4 Ways to Stand Out and Boost Donor Retention
Connection Cafe
APRIL 26, 2016
According to Foundation Center , there are just 12 items on the checklist for beginning a nonprofit organization. It’s really not that hard; in fact, more than 46,000 additional organizations received their 501(c) status from the IRS between April 2015 and March 2016, according to the National Center for Charitable Statistics.
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Why Nonprofits Need to Broaden Their Funding Horizons
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Download the full report to learn how to develop a stable, sustainable, and supported organization. . There are widespread notions that fundraising is a necessary evil, or that dollars spent on fundraising are being diverted from the organization’s work. Here’s the truth: . Nonprofits depend on charitable support.
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5 Steps to Creating Effective Community Health Initiatives
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 13, 2020
What are other organizations doing in this space? How is your organization positioned to help in a given space—say, the bridge between housing and health? Collaborating with community-based organizations (CBOs) not only strengthens your collective efforts, but helps the community you serve to buy into your program and vision.
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Educating on the SDGs: TEL FOR GOOD is CSR at Work
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
employee engagement and involvement is the adoption of year-round giving to nonprofit organizations. Originally, because of administration and verification hurdles, employees were only able to donate during a campaign to organizations designated by TEL. One of the program-changing decisions that have improved TEL U.S.
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Why Individual Giving Strategies Often Don’t Work for Communities of Color
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 4, 2016
Statistically, individual donors provide 72% of the funds for nonprofits!” ” “Why, I knew this one organization that was struggling, and they decided focus on individual donors. This 72% statistic—or 85%, depending on the source—is for all nonprofits in general.
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Blackbaud Index for April 2013
Connection Cafe
JUNE 4, 2013
Specialty indices focus on giving to healthcare, medical research organizations: In an effort to provide the most useful data for organizations in the healthcare field, The Blackbaud Index is splitting the Healthcare index, originally launched in 2011, into two specialty indices. Public and Society Benefit organizations were down 8.6%
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Fundraising Basics: [Part 1] How to Create and Provide Value to Your Donors
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
I believe when organizations focus on the core principles and best practices of fundraising, no matter how simple, basic, or straightforward, it leads to sustainable and substantial growth. Donors are customers of your organization. They are buying into the outcomes of your organization. Overall U.S. giving was up 4.9%
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41 Predictive Modeling vs. Wealth Screening: Effective Segmentation Programs Require a Healthy Mix
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Or, the incredibly wealthy neighbor who has no interest in supporting the local organization down the street. While still others may be statistical outliers that don’t model well but have assets that pique a fundraiser’s curiosity and turn into large major gift donors.
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5 Best Practices for Converting Volunteers to Donors
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
The question is, is your organization focusing on the volunteer base that you already have? This statistic does not even include a volunteer’s time commitment and work value. Creating a personalized experience for volunteers demonstrates organization and value. This data all point to one conclusion.
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Simple Ways to Analyze Nonprofit Email Performance
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
We all know those organizations that send far too many emails. At our organization, we learned that 80 percent of our volunteers aren’t passionate about fighting cancer generally, they’re passionate about fighting the cancer that impacted them. Statistically significant? . Am I sending too many emails? 11 which is 11%. .
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32 Don’t Trust Me, Trust Science!
Connection Cafe
MAY 22, 2013
See what has worked for other organizations and see if it might apply to you. Just because the new experience looks nice or worked for another organization doesn’t mean it will be successful for you. Gather information and resources – Benchmarks and tips are a great start. Google Analytics content experiments.
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44 #shamelessplug: Take This Fundraising Survey!
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 26, 2012
You want to know how other organizations fundraising programs performed in 2011. You want to see where your organization stacks up in terms of goals for 2012. You want to know how other organization’s boards are engaged in fundraising. Probably not – so take advantage of a group that will do it for you.
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Key Findings from Giving USA 2014 Report
Connection Cafe
JUNE 17, 2014
charitable giving and estimates sources of giving and amounts received by type of organization. Giving to Religious organizations was flat on a year over year basis while giving to Education was up 9%. Research has found a statistically significant correlation between changes in total giving and values on the S&P 500.
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Optimize Your Nonprofit Fundraising Team with Human Data
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
As a member of the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact’s new advisory board and CEO of NextAfter , Kachuriak discussed how using human data can transform the hiring process of your organization and ensure that top candidates are the best fit for the role. Step 1: Reboot how your organization thinks about acquisition.
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Understanding Volunteers and Donors With Analytics
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Truly understanding your organization’s prospects and customer behavior can be the difference between successful and unsuccessful volunteer recruitment and fundraising campaigns. Isn’t it true that they are providing your organization with time and financial resources in exchange for value? Still not convinced?
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39 Expert Tips for #GivingTuesday Success
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Whether it is the first time your organization has thrown its hat into the ring or its preparing to top last year’s results, there’s always more your organization can learn and do. Their advice will help you focus in on #GivingTuesday and guide your organization, message, and campaign towards new heights.
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26 How Would You Rate Your Prospect Management System?| Part 3
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 14, 2014
In Part I , I covered rating choice “Level 1,” and how this signifies that an organization does not have a formalized prospect management system in place. Referring back to my previous blog in July , I am completing a series that outlines the various levels of prospect management we encounter with our clients.
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Best Practices to Leverage from BBI’s Human Social Responsibility Report
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Incorporating social impact strategies into an organization’s mission has historically been highly desired by its customers, employees and other key stakeholders. Now more than ever, we’re seeing these efforts as a deciding factor when associating ourselves with a particular organization. Movement towards the Employees’ Needs.
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27 The Three Major Components of a Successful Annual Giving Campaign
Connection Cafe
MARCH 14, 2017
They contain powerful content and create exposure for your organization by educating others on your past, current and future efforts. Use simple verbiage and keep statistics to a minimum. Statistics are great motivators, but can also alter the voice of an appeal. Delivery – Ensure the message is vibrant and concise.
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2015 Charitable Giving Report: Fundraising Continues to Grow
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
A few highlights from the report: International Affairs organizations had the largest year-over-year increase in charitable giving. Both Environment and Animal Welfare nonprofits and International Affairs organizations experienced double digit online fundraising growth in 2015. and online giving grew 9.2% in 2015 compared to 2014.
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Getting Serious About Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Data with Predictive Analytics
Connection Cafe
APRIL 3, 2019
Make data analytics work for your organization – download the Blackbaud Institute’s free Analytics Toolkit. Descriptive analytics tells us what happened and typically include reports that tells you things like age, address, registration date, and fundraising statistics.
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35 Breaking News: Twiddling Thumbs of Nonprofit Professionals Causing Sore Thumbs
Connection Cafe
APRIL 1, 2016
Or even for your personal role in the organization. billion in online giving data from 2015 and features key statistics on year-over-year charitable giving broken down by nonprofit size and sector. In order to move the needle on your fundraising performance, it’s important to understand the sector and how your organization compares.
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20 #GivingTuesday: The Arts & Culture Way
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
These are phenomenal statistics and your organization should participate in this global day of giving. Arts and Cultural organizations are capitalizing on this giving movement by creating a clear call-to-action attached to customized campaigns. Connect with like organizations.
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It’s Me, Your Donor. Are You Listening?| Insights from the $FG Report
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
I was lucky enough to get a preview of the Money for Good 2015 report and it’s full of surprising (and not so surprising) data, insights and recommendations for organizations, funders and vendors. Out of all the statistics in this report, this one struck me the most. Never heard of the $FG report?
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Becoming the Analytics Expert (or at Least Intermediate Data Nerd)
Connection Cafe
APRIL 16, 2013
Now, everybody is talking about “The Big Data Revolution”, and news stories are popping up consistently around how organizations or corporations are using data to drive sales, predict revenue, plan services, or even predict the life stage that their constituents are in (if you doubt this, Google Target and pregnancy). Conferences.
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31 The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Things You Won’t Believe, Trendy Communication, and Keys to Do More Good
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 12, 2014
It’s time to flip that statistic on it’s head. From big picture goals to hot topics (like Retention), the report offers benchmarks and statistics to help you validate and navigate your nonprofit’s communication in 2014. How will your organization capitalize on the platforms to connect with your audience this year?
Don’t Fear the Fraudster: Three Ways to Prevent Fraud at Your Nonprofit
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 27, 2019
Occupational fraud is a chilling reality for businesses and organizations of all sizes and occurs across industries—even within the nonprofit sector. Marks, CPA, CFF, CFE, A Violation of Trust: Fraud Risk in Nonprofit Organizations. These statistics are alarming. Jonathan T. How Does Fraud Happen? The True Cost of Fraud.
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