Robert Weiner

MARCH 25, 2009

Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent. The average gift amount was unchanged at many organizations, with the average gift hovering around $67.50 in 2007 and 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. For each $5 you donate you will receive one entry to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card. If you do decide to join the 2007 Blogathon, let folks know in the comments of this post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 on me-too purchases, which are the impulse buys that people make for themselves while they're shopping for gifts. percent from last year, according to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey." You can give a Kiva gift certificate for as little as $25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference. Canva and Guy Kawaski generously sent me some t-shirts that I have gifted during my workshops. I’ve also taught social media to young people in Cambodia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As the first fundraising app launched inside of Facebook, since its founding in 2007 it has raised more $40 million for over 27,000 nonprofits. 2) FundRazr :: View App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

MadebySurvivors sells beautiful handicrafts and awesome gifts all made by survivors and people at very high risk for slavery. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another! Foundation's Gifts of Hope have been created to initiate a revolution in giving ??? Photo by Dmason.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 18, 2007

Czechs are the first to make charitable gifts by text message - 18-01-2007 - Radio Prague: "Czechs are the first to make charitable gifts by text message[18-01-2007] By Ilya MarritzLike most small nations, Czechs are proud of their inventions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

A true gift! I’ve never even heard of most of them. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. What are “influencers?&# Read the blog entry. It’s pretty interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2011

Only 11% of online donors acquired in 2007 were still giving in 2010. After three or four years, about half of all online-acquired donors are giving offline gifts and over 40% are giving exclusively offline. Online donors continue to switch channels and become offline donors.

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Benchmark Internet Report Giving 144

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. I’d love for people to check out our last social media campaign called Green Gift Monday. With all of the crazy consumerism of the holidays, we tried to bring awareness to responsible and meaningful gifting – like giving to charities. Anything else?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

She had already found my post on the Ingredients of a High Performing Advancement Services Shop , my discussion summary, Top Issues Affecting Advancement Services (which led to an article in the October 2007 issue of CASE Currents called "Going Fourth: What every fundraiser should know about advancement services" by Jennifer Salopek), and the (..)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The average online gift for the month of December increased to $248.82 billion donated in 2007. This is a 44% increase over 2007's online giving estimates. Online donors also give much larger gifts than traditional donors. 38 nonprofits in the analysis had at least one online gift of $20,000 of more so far in 2009.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

The Truth About Donor Research This comes from the report Money for Good: The US Market Opportunity for Impact Investments and Charitable Gifts from Individual Donor and Investors. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

I just received an update from KK Tse entitled The Most Inspiring Story from the Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, talking about 1KG More, a social enterprise that implemented Voluntourism: combining backpacking with delivering books and other gifts for rural Chinese children.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. Please be safe! Planned giving activity often accelerates in tentative economic times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. Each country has different needs so the gifts vary: Chickens for a school in the Gambia. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

* 300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA); * $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud); * $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago; * 30% of online giving happens in December. How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

In 2004, Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts arrived. In the intervening years, several research efforts (Brown & Novak, 2007; Radbourne, Glow & Johanson, 2010; Brown & Ratzkin 2012) proved it was possible to quantifiably measure those intrinsic impacts of art. Sources: Brown, A.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2009

Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent. The average gift amount was unchanged at many organizations, with the average gift hovering around $67.50 in 2007 and 2008.

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Convio Benchmark Report Online 43

Care2

MARCH 27, 2012

Did you know that in 2011, 16% of new donors gave via online gifts up from 9% in 2007? Or that the median revenue per donor for multi-channel supporters was $228 compared to $89 for offline and $113 for online donors?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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NetWits

MAY 20, 2008

Early Results: Ringing in the New Year, the site went live on the last days of 2007. Online gift processing has created significant time savings for the staff. Online gift processing has created significant time savings for the staff. With our new site, what used to take me an hour now takes me five minutes.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Let's take the scenario of first-time donors who aren't making second gifts. What channel (direct mail, email, social media) the gift came through. What channel (direct mail, email, social media) the gift came through. Dates of gifts. Amount of gifts. Purpose of gifts. 129 have donated again in 2010.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Entitled The Gift of Insight , the story recounts Viji’s personal journey and how it inspired her to work with members of our Bookshare service who have print disabilities that make it difficult for them to read traditional text.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

Size of donation is down, but number of gifts is up. Average gift size is way down compared to the 2007 data, but the blow has been cushioned by the sheer number of gifts nonprofits solicited online. Will gift size increase with an economic turnaround? Open rates and click-throughs are holding steady.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on the ever-expanding nonprofit sector still challenges recovery of giving to pre-recession levels. What are the behavior and consequence of new gift giving? or almost 5 times the rate at which individual giving increased.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2009

However, in the fourth quarter nonprofits experienced a dip in average gift sizes. While donors continued to donate money, the average gift was smaller. For example, between 2006 and 2007, online donations grew by 26% but between 2007 and 2008 online donations only grew by 14%. “People are still giving.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. This is down from 19% in 2007 and 21% in 2006. The annual churn rate, or the rate at which an email list “goes bad” in a year, held steady at 19% between 2007 and 2008. Average gift size across organizations was $71 in 2008.

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Benchmark Social Media Studies Advocacy 28

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

In addition, peer-to-peer fund-raising campaigns can produce positive results when they are offered for birthday, holiday, graduation, or memorial gifts. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

When you donate wisely, your gift has the potential to make a real difference in someone's life. Some charitable organizations are performing self-evaluations and making the findings public. This can benefit the organization as much as it helps donors. If you can only afford a small donation, consider making donations throughout the year.

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Donation Tennessee Charity Evaluation 87

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Kathleen Rogers has been the NOZAsearch managing director and product manager since 2007. Alice didn’t know about any of these gifts to others. NOZAsearch is available through the Blackbaud donation program at TechSoup.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, Even a small financial gift can make a big difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Production Note: I wonder if " Simple Gifts " is in the public domain?). More detail ClickTracks Web Analytics Education Series, Virtual World : Feb 26 & 27, 2007 ??? Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

For the vast majority of nonprofits, a large percent of their revenues come in the form of gifts and grants, which can be uncertain for many reasons. Since her retirement from the securities industry in 2007, Ms. While expenses such as payroll, rent and utilities may change little from year to year, revenues can be variable and risky.

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