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Matching Gifts Best Practices 2009

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The findings included: 96% of respondents accept matching gifts (down from 99% in 2008), but only 60% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts.

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Top 4 Online Fundraising Tactics Your Nonprofit Can’t Live Without

NetWits

Download the complete 2011 Online Fundraising Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift.

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How Nonprofits Can Expect the Unexpected When Budgeting

NonProfit Hub

For example, the 2009 Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study examined what happens when nonprofit executives spend too little on overhead. After conducting surveys of nonprofits with revenues exceeding $100,000, the study found that many organizations struggled with broken computers, unprepared staff, and dilapidated furniture.

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Getting Your (Marketing) Ducks in a Row in 2009

NetWits

Don’t send a survey asking how frequently a supporter would like to hear from you unless you are prepared to adjust your communication schedule accordingly. Nicholai gives some great tips in his post about how to listen to your audience and the various areas you can capture their critical feedback.

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5 Ways to Increase Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

NetWits

Ask what can be improved, invite them to planning meetings and send team captain-specific surveys. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. If you can get new donors to a second gift, though, the likelihood increases dramatically that they will give a third gift.

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eNonprofit Benchmarks Study Reveals Latest Metrics for Advocacy, Fundraising and Social Media

Care2

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Online fundraising grew 14% from 2009 to 2010. From 2009 to 2010, advocacy response rates declined 7% on average. Online Fundraising.

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Help NTEN Better Understand the IT Staffing Needs of Nonprofits

NTEN

We've just opened the 5th Annual Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey , brought to you by NTEN and The Nonprofit Times. > Take the 2010 Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey The nonprofit sector spends little time considering the investments it makes in Information Technology (IT). What salaries are appropriate?

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