Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. The summary, including thoughts on what worked, is posted at: [link]. Tags: Online Fundraising Fundraising. in December.

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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. A ton more gifts – 93% saw an increase in the number of gifts made.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. They’ve found: Steady growth throughout the year. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft , the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. Bibliography with links and summaries of studies reviewed. Presentation slides.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

Technologies like AI have dramatically altered the way nonprofit professionals at tech-savvy organizations work, and they have the potential to become a staple in the fundraising process. Nonprofits have limited resources and often focus the bulk of their fundraising efforts on a handful of major donors.

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Technology Marketing Change Nonprofit 52

Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

3 Better Data Collection and Analysis AI prompts can collect and analyze large amounts of data in real-time, providing insights into user behavior and preferences. 4 Enhanced Fundraising and Donor Engagement AI prompts can help you personalize and scale your fundraising and donor engagement efforts.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

After all, how can you conduct an auction if you have to fundraise from home ? To better understand how you can pull off almost any type of event you want online, let’s explore the following examples of virtual fundraising events: Peer-to-peer fundraising. Reports and data analysis tool. Virtual events.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. For example, you might send a summary of your last annual report over email rather than reciting it over the phone.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

The San Diego Zoo’s recent email performance analysis supports this position. In summary, don’t be fooled by the face value of open and click-through rates (the same could be said for fundraising, but more on that a little later). Email Marketing Interactive Online Fundraising'

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Rate San Diego Open Benchmark 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure. Fundraiser. For the event, I used the Facebook Insights, Rowfeeder, and Storify. Total raise $5563 or 10% over goal of $5,000 in 2 weeks.

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Social Media Online Learning Fundraising 129

sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

According to the 80/20 rule in major donor fundraising, 80% of a nonprofit’s total revenue comes from the top 20% of its donors—and for some nonprofits, this might even be closer to a 90/10 ratio. For example, you might send a summary of your last annual report over email rather than reciting it over the phone.

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Analysis Gift Data Tips 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We focused on digital transformation because incorporating digital has become essential for delivering on all aspects of a nonprofit’s mission, not just fundraising and communications but program delivery and governance. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. We opted for the latter.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Every nonprofit website should include key features to optimize fundraising, promote brand awareness, and attract volunteers. Instead, a website is a space you can utilize to increase fundraising, promote brand awareness, and find volunteers. An online website isn’t just an advertisement for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Philanthropy, Fundraising, Disasters, and Video Good corporate citizenship was highlighted at Davis this past week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools. Idealware has recently launched a fundraising campaign for its Research Fund to cover part of the costs of producing similar reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, How age coding can improve your fundraising effectiveness.

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NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . Fundraising during a global pandemic . Conduct an impact analysis and use it! So how do we combat this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. DonorsChoose.org is doing a hybrid blog action and fundraising challenge during the month of October. Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. When embarking on a comprehensive analysis of your database, be sure to keep your goals and objectives first and foremost. Remember, start by defining goals in order to plan strategic next steps.

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Analytics Gift Strategy Fundraising 20

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Each June, nonprofit and philanthropy leaders gather for the unveiling of what’s become an annual report card for charitable giving in America and, by extension, for fundraisers. Compare your own organization’s fundraising with both the topline Giving USA results and those for your specific sector.

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Data Giving Indiana Philanthropy 42

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

Nonprofit managers ought to consider how a SIB might affect their evaluation, program management and fundraising efforts. Fundraising is the primary draw for service providers to SIBs, which are often assumed to be brand new funding. The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis.”

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

Whether patient fundraising is a new idea at your organization or your development team wants to evolve a long-standing program, the first question is a frequent and practical one. This process represents a fast, reliable way to uncover summary wealth insight for large patient populations. Rightfully so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Unthinkingly blog has an interesting post about computer recyclying aptly titled " The Joy of e-waste " Online Fundraising. Fundraising Success Magazine covers The Great Debate: Direct Mail vs Online Acquisition. here's a fundraising strategy.

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Nptech Technorati Fundraising Widget 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Data must often be cleaned up before you can consider a technology choice to help in analysis. Do we have the capabilities and skills in-house to do the analysis? This allows the benefit of skilled analysis and interpretation using your data. Download Analytics-Driven Fundraising Today! Cleanup need not be burdensome.

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Analytics Data Analysis Culture 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Make sure that you good internal system for sharing any updates that might come in through fundraising office or other school connections. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The easiest subjects of your analysis are going to be individuals in your own database. In summary, LOOK FOR PATTERNS!!! After finding the obvious similarities, you may want to do a little more analysis for some of the more subtle patterns. Identify New Donors to Participate in Your Crowdfunding Campaign.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of fundraising for your organization. Social distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the need for online fundraising and proved the success of online services. This is where fundraising software comes in. Fundraise Up. Online Giving.

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Software Fundraising Nonprofit Platform 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Here's how I've documented all the social media fundraising campaigns: Objective and Audience. Task Analysis. Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. (A Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. The system has support for a number of different interactions, including a strong event module, and you can see a useful summary of each constituent’s relationships and activities. by Fund for the City of New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a fundraising strategy webinar with Chris Goodman , SVP of Strategy & Marketing for 2Dialog. We had also blogged earlier on the topic vis-a-vis the changing fundraising paradigm we are experiencing across the third sector. Easier = 8%. More difficult = 92%. 3-5 = 47%. 3-5 = 47%. Not sure = 7%.

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Data Technology Strategy Fundraising 100

CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you’ll be thrilled to know that AI is your new secret weapon for elevating your operations, fundraising, and outreach efforts. Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. It can generate fundraising emails , social media posts, and blog articles, all on the fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

To answer Deborah's question, I don't think Facebook is yet the default front end for nonprofits, but it has become an increasingly important fundraising channel give the impressive growth statistics (not just users but in the age 35 plus category). And, of course, Facebook is a taste of what is coming in November. And if you???re

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Blue Fox

MARCH 5, 2020

Did you know that sharing financial data with donors can change the fundraising game for your organization? Step 2 : TEACH: Educate Your Staff & Board Whether you realize it or not, your entire internal team (staff and board members) are walking, talking promoters and fundraisers for your organization.

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