Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. I didn’t start receiving them until yesterday [the first Monday after being authenticated] and I am the Admin for 17 different Pages.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. When one organization says they want the software or platform to work differently, it’s a nice feautre request email that may even get a “thank you for the input&# message in response. There is no agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Content – there’s lots to test and try with content from bullet points to quotes to different styles and pull-out boxes. Highlights.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

Change the way we associated with others on and offline? This post has me thinking about many different perspectives on community organizing and community engagement and I'd love to hear what it triggers for you! " Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. Online fundraising grew 34% and raised over $20 billion dollars in 2010 – Blackbaud. Median revenue per donor for multichannel supporters was $339 compared to $88 for offline. Fundraising Facts. – Charity Navigator. This is an increase of 3.8% – Charity Navigator.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 10NTC will be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA - mark your calendars now! I am part of four different proposals and would love to have a chance to share some of the ideas and experiences I’ve had with all of you at the event (even if you can’t come in person, you know I’ll post my notes and ideas on this blog!).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Use different links on different sites to see what really gets people clicking through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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sgEngage

JULY 17, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending May 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending May 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. for the 3 months ending May 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. The study, which you can download here , summarizes “$381 million in online giving through Network for Good’s platform, including 3.6 Here are some key findings.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

— a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. This post from the Care2 FrogLoop blog examines the difference between using Facebook for collecting donations and fundraising.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. It's worth taking the time to set up a different page for each traffic source. Steve Peretz, M+R Strategic Services. How's that work?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Commerce Department report, A Nation Online , we know the reality is very different. What Is Connect2Compete ? It was launched by the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

While it does not yet amount to the bulk of fundraising for most nonprofits, online giving grew by 13 percent from 2010 to 2011. The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations. Update them with your organization’s progress and show them how their gift has made a difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. And it is completely okay, required even, that all those goals are different to some degree. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. What do you point to when funders, donors, board members and the community ask if you are making a difference?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. The challenge is to design a template that travels well and can be easily and consistently updated (when our organization moved, I had 5 different footers to update). Integrating online and offline communications. I’m sorry that we still do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In true “Ignite” style, each presenter had five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. There are many different platforms, but facebook is by far the largest (now with over 500 million users and 700 billion minutes of use per month, and 70 translations). Costs & Benefits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. at 7:32 am My take on the discussion so far is that there is a real difference in opinion on the importance of a web site to an organization. 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Seven groups presented ideas in the workshop yesterday and the most popular ideas presented were those based on creativity and different tactics than most of the people in the room had thought of. Integration is going to be key in 2010. Everyone likes to talk about the tactics and often overlook the strategy.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

The Blue Key site was only launched in December 2010, and its social/digital aspects were relatively new, so there was not a lot of data to base KPIs on. Based on review of the data, what will you do differently with the campaign? What were the specific goals and KPIs for the campaign (assuming web traffic and key purchases?)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

I’m connected in different ways to numerous nonprofit organizations. And with the publishing of the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , 5 main lessons learned in the way of multi-channel marketing were evident in 2009. If you insist on contacting me offline, then please tell me how I can respond online. Share them here!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. for the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? What has your nonprofit done since January 12, 2010? Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go? magnitude earthquake struck the island of Hispaniola.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

New data from Target Analytics , a division of Blackbaud, reveals key insights into online and offline donors. The findings are based on analysis of online and offline giving data from sixteen large national nonprofits in the United States during 2016 and represents more than 6.5 million donors. They’re Are Younger.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Myths about Online Giving Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 1st, 2010 There are so many myths about online giving. A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending January 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

In 2010, online fundraising in the United States surpassed $22 billion. The 2010 Online Giving Report revealed that the size of the nonprofit makes very little difference in what percentage of total fundraising comes from online giving. The good news is that we can now answer most of these questions.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Tis the Season for Charity Gift Cards Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 9th, 2010 The Los Angeles Times had an article the other day called “Causes offers gift cards for charitable giving.&# Will it work? Who knows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I was going to to take a complete sabbatical offline, but my next book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” – co-authored with KD Paine is due out in 6-8 weeks.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2010 Online Giving Trends Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on February 15th, 2011 Blackbaud released its 2010 Online Giving Report today. in December 2010. You can get a copy of the 2010 Online Giving Report on Blackbaud.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

conference in 2010. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. As an early adopter of social media, in the early days of blogging (circa 2003) it was fairly easy to connect and maintain relationships with people you online and later connected at a blogging conference or meet up offline.

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