Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

We invite you to join us, take our survey, and we welcome your contributions." If you are going to do one new thing in 2010 to help get the word out about your organization’s mission, it should be to create a video." Both online and off? Quick, what springs to mind? Well I'm here to tell you that it should be video.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As nonprofits rush to put the final touches on year-end fundraising campaigns, what financial returns should they expect for Quarter 4 in 2010? The Donor Confidence Report by Campbell Rinker which surveyed over 500 U.S. donors asked whether donors expected to give the same amount, more, or less in 2010 compared with 2009.

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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. Want on-demand nonprofit stats for a paper, blog post or grant proposal?

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2011

As organizations continue to plan for 2011, it’s important to examine 2010 benchmarks such as the Membership Marketing Benchmark report that surveyed over 400 association executives. Check out these Stats: In 2009, 31% of associations reported that membership renewal rates decreased in the previous year.

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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. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

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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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. One of the down sides of Twopular is that if your issue/hashtag is not in the top 10 trends, you won’t see stats in the bar graph. Its one-stop-shopping for posting to multiple video sites simultaneously, plus it tracks all the stats, too. pretty cool.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Smörgåsbord of Stats Here are just a sample of some of the statistics in the report worth noting: 98.2% The study is part of an ongoing research partnership with the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , which began in 2006. Wealthy households also gave a substantial amount, on average, to education ($12,759 in 2009).

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