NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. To start with, we conducted a survey (tweet tweet!) And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011. It says that 22.7% Why Go Mobile?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey. In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. and MPower at 0.4%.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

As you know, NOSI is doing a survey on the use of FOSS in the nonprofit sector. I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. Also, we have been accused in creating a biased survey. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased. 3 Beth Kanter 01.20.08 4 Laura Quinn 01.21.08

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Both Giving USA and The Chronicle of Philanthropy are reputable sources of information, but the way each measures philanthropic giving for their reports differs – significantly. Why the difference? When speaking of data by state, the ASU Lodestar Center researches giving in Arizona, and we use an entirely different methodology.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Non-Profits approaches this October 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC, I’m working with colleagues to put the finishing touches on my sessions, and one in particular — one of my favorite topics — is simply too much fun to not share here: Targeted Content*. What is Targeted Content?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

These metrics can provide core data that will enable you to measure the difference your organization is making in your community. Assemble and track collected data from surveys, assessments, and interviews all in one place to efficiently manage your foundational impact statistics and more. Success differs for each organization.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

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. The 2010 advocacy response rate was 3.3%. Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more? Online Fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund’s (NFF) 2013 State of the Sector survey explored a variety of financial and management challenges facing organizations across the country. According to a 2010 Urban Institute study, nonprofit organizations (with records of income data) reported that nearly one-third of their revenue sources came from the government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones? Certainly, these and other questions would be a good start for a survey. Maybe that first step is research. Qwerty Monsters.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. And each of us explained it a little differently. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. They sent out surveys. Why did we do this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice.

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. including differences between communications infrastructures and economic factors.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

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! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. This week’s installment of Research Friday looks at what the survey results tell us about nonprofit board engagement in tough times. So what does that mean for the board?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You may not see a significant difference in the features you’ll use when comparing free and paid options. You may not want to change how you currently manage donors, which means you’d like to invest as little as possible in a different solution or approach to donor management. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These challenging questions were addressed by the 2010 Arizona Health Survey sponsored by the St. Over 8,000 adults were surveyed about their physical, mental and social well-being. Fortunately, over 2,000 adults over 65 years old responded to the survey. Personality and Individual Differences, 42: 1467-1477.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. Consumer Reports polled 58,000 subscribers between 2010 and 2015 and found that. In our RCI program, we've found that reputably refurbished equipment from all brands have fail rates much lower than all the new equipment in the Consumer Reports survey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. The study attempts to "disentangle whether people's varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites.". And the findings are, indeed, interesting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Using different terms to mean the same thing confuses the story. 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. As artists, we can be very insecure about our work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. That’s a pretty big difference, between 33 and 25. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Public ‘want to know how money is spent’ – Third Sector – “More than half of the general public would donate more money to charity if they knew exactly how it was spent, a new survey of 2,000 people indicates. The research was carried out for donation website See the Difference, which will be launched next year.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Ask them what can be improved, and what they would do differently. Learn why they are involved, what motivates them, and engage them through different channels. million in 2010. Ask what can be improved, invite them to planning meetings and send team captain-specific surveys. Involve Team Captains.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

Create a survey and send it out to your existing donors so that they can “vote” on the items you’re considering. Conversely, an in-person fundraiser has different requirements. Your requirements for a one-time popup fundraiser will be different from that of an indefinite sale at your facility’s front desk. coupon cards.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. In addition to the standard case management features, users can share documents, calendars, tasks, participate in discussion forums, and create site-wide surveys.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We asked this question recently on our post-conference survey and the results were overwhelming: 95.9% We began with a Verizon MiFi 2200 at our registration desk in 2009, and expanded to a trial Free WiFi Zone powered by Clear Spots in 2010. By Jason Samuels, Manager of Information Technology, National Council on Family Relations.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. And each of us explained it a little differently. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. They sent out surveys. Why did we do this?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Use Personalized Messaging on Different Audiences. After testing 5 different ones, they finally found one that really resonated with constituents. Send another one to a different 10 percent. Here are 3 ways: 1.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . "Every individual can make a difference by stepping up and using the tools available," Eliott said.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In our recent survey “ The Next Generation of American Giving ,” it was no surprise that Boomers and Matures report giving the most money to the most charities; they are more established financially and in their charitable values. The generations are as similar as they are different in their giving behaviors. Matures (b.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2012

Every sector surveyed in our 2011 Online Fundraising Report experienced double-digit growth since 2009 , including roughly 13 percent* in the past year. The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. give significant amounts. were between $1,000 and $5,000.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Guest post by Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising , called one of the Top 10 books of 2010 by Beth Kanter, and author of the Networked Nonprofit. Another way to make this process less overwhelming is to decide different levels attention for different levels of donations. Current volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Citizen-Powered Response. Costs & Benefits.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Same reality, different data. Different research. Mobile users are doing a whole lot more than making calls — 38% of them (and rising) use their devices to access the Internet ( View survey results ). This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere."

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 28, 2011

We surveyed 121 community foundation executives from across the United States. We also found that institutional and organizational forces help explain tendencies of executives to prioritize different roles, and consequently, it is important to consider the priorities for each organization when determining how the board can be most beneficial.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 2010, we started preparing months in advance for end-of-year fundraising. Positive version: Negative version: The positive version – which focused on achievements and the difference supporters had made – had a higher average gift. First, we used earlier campaigns to build momentum. Will a video boost the response rate?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I’m not going to talk about the “how to” of including people with disabilities, people of color, people with different learning styles, or people from different cultures into your organization. A 2003 survey of employers found that the cost of adaptation to accommodate employees with disabilities was $500 or less. Dixon, K.A.,

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