Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. You can customize your donation page using one of the pre-made templates or by creating one of your own.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2014

in 2013 and has been growing by double digits ever since. Simple math tells us that: If you get 1,000 visits to your donation form and 1% convert into donors, you’ll have 10 donors. If you get 1,000 visits to your donation form and 3% of them convert into donors, you’ll have 30 donors.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Join Pam for an informational webinar “Who Gives: How Generations X, Y, Baby Boomers, and Matures Donate” on November 13th. But don’t forget the long game – our research shows that most Boomers and Matures first learned about their top charities in their 30s. Data is self-reported, not transactional.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Last week Blackbaud along with partners HJC, Sea Change Strategies, and Edge Research released findings from the 2013 Next Generation of Canadian Giving study. What kinds of charities do people support? The majority of Canadians donate money to charity. What are the preferred communications and engagement channels?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We’ve been talking to folks from some of the 350,000 congregations around the country and have been hearing that they’d like more coverage of IT resources for religious oriented charities on TechSoup. TechSoup Donations for Faith-Based Organizations. ” I hope he continues to curate this informational website.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

It was a pretty interesting summer for charity fundraising launches. Facebook expanded its Donate Now buttons to all charities; eBay has a new Sell for Charity mobile app. The Facebook Donate Now Button. The donate buttons then were geared to Facebook's selected nonprofit partners and were pretty simple.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published their findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. A recent study says no.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

target="_blank">The Blackbaud Index that tracks fundraising revenue for congregations and other faith-based organizations. Based on data from 3,828 charities that raised more than $12 billion in the prior 12 months, The Blackbaud Index reports that overall charitable giving grew 2.3 Among 3,097 charities that raised nearly $1.7

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In a major study of more than 800 Canadian donors that we at hjc recently completed with Blackbaud , Edge Research , and Sea Change Strategies , two big trends stood out: mobile fundraising and crowdfunding. In addition, we asked donors about the ways they chose to engage and stay in touch with charities. Civics (born 1945 or earlier).

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have time to get out of the office… I have spent lots of time posting our request for funds on our Facebook page and I have created a new, cool Donate section of our website.”. Fundraising by definition is “an activity done to collect money by a charity, political party or school,” i.e. the Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% of total fundraising revenue. Sadly, that is not the case.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

TEST YOUR DONATE PAGE. Go through the process on mobile and donate $5 to make sure the donation flow performs correctly. Here is a list of low-cost donation platforms to consider. Create a focused giving page just for #GivingTuesday and promote that exact page — don’t make people click around to find your donate button.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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sgEngage

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. That would need be true for supporting donations too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

Some statistics from the infographic: $88 is the average donation size. We looked at the donation motivations and habits of individuals and their social media usage habits. One thing we learned is that heavy social media users are more likely to be new donors to the charity after encountering them on social media channels.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2013

You may have heard that Blackbaud recently released a generational giving study and associated infographic that covers the Next Generation of American Giving! Charitable Giving: Baby Boomers Donate More, Study Shows – Forbes – Online. 5 of a Number of Takeaways from Blackbaud’s 2013 Next Generation Giving Study – NPQ.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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