Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

He's spent close to ten years helping nonprofits be more. We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. of online giving happened in October, November, and December of 2011. effective online.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending August 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending July 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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JULY 17, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending May 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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JUNE 16, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending April 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. Lower average gifts – 79% had lower average gifts in 2011 vs. 2010.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending June 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

United Way Worldwide reports that more than 90% of the States are covered by 2-1-1 solutions, and that information specialists responded to more than 16 million calls in 2011, not to mention web site traffic, messaging, and other forms of access. With 90% of the nation covered, are we done yet? Not nearly.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2012

Blackbaud recently released its 2011 Online Giving report. comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The findings include 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit. organizations, online major giving data from 2,397 nonprofits, and both. from 1,560 nonprofits.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. for the 3 months ending June 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. for the 3 months ending July 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

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JULY 5, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. for the 3 months ending May 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

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MAY 6, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. for the 3 months ending March 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. What has changed?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, June 3, 2011 Research Friday: Really, is the Nonprofit Sector Becoming More Commercialized? As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s report follows on the heels of Giving USA’s 2012 report for 2011 giving, where the total current individual giving was reported to be $217.79

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Jacob Harold, “ Nonprofits Master “Medium Data” Before Tackling Big Data.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But they have also made data literacy an essential competency for everyone in the organization. The result is a shift from ad hoc data analysis and simple (though detailed) record-keeping to a systematic approach to improving their programs and campaigns by using data. In Elizabeth Boris’s words “…they are missing in action.”.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. The post-PC world was inadvertently ratified by HP when it made a dramatic announcement in August 2011 about trying to get out of the PC hardware business. How Does This Impact the Used Computer Market?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits. Watech4good Summit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy.

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APRIL 30, 2021

These trends offer h ealthcare organizations t he opportunity to grow this donor support th rough stewardship and retention. . . LET’S START WITH THE TRENDS IN HEALTHCARE FUNDRAISING. Analysis of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT ® data from U.S. Analysis of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT ® data from U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Trust me — I know them well because I used to be one.” Giller, a journalist, established the Seattle-based nonprofit as a destination news web site for environmental news, reports and opinion with a wry sense of humor. Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it. Source: grist.

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MAY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Probably not. Probably not.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,376 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 This growth trend has been fueled by improving results from both large (+3.9%) and small (+15.1%) nonprofits. over last year.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,468 nonprofit organizations representing $2.25 Large and medium sized organizations had a negative growth trend, but smaller organizations continued to experience positive growth.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,412 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 This growth trend has been fueled by improving results from both large (+6.2%) and small (+17.2%) nonprofits. over last year.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Top States for New Donors & Online Donors Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 23rd, 2010 Blackbaud has a tremendous amount of data about the nonprofit sector. Sometimes it’s just ambient awareness or trivial trivia.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 12th, 2011 One year ago a devastating 7.0 Nonprofit organizations responded to the disaster and so did their supporters.

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APRIL 15, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending February 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

There are 75 pages of statistics and trend information in the report. Giving Amount Trends High net worth households gave $54,016 on average to charity in 2009. The study is part of an ongoing research partnership with the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , which began in 2006. The average wealth of respondents was $10.7

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