article thumbnail

Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

Haiti 82
article thumbnail

Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

Haiti 68
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. We think that this is important and valuable.

article thumbnail

Hackathons Aim to Improve Aid Distribution and Coordination in Haiti

Forum One

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. I jumped at the chance to participate, as I have a background in humanitarian emergency analysis and am a self-proclaimed geek.

Haiti 50
article thumbnail

The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

NTEN

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, cholera spreading into the bateyes posed an imminent threat as most of the workers migrated from Haiti. Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes.

article thumbnail

Blackbaud Index for April 2011

sgEngage

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. This decrease continues a trend from January and is attributable to the large amount of Haiti relief giving in 2010.

article thumbnail

What Previous Crises Can Teach Us About Navigating the Current Fundraising Environment

Connection Cafe

Whether it be the tragedy of 9/11, a tsunami, an economic recession, an earthquake in Haiti, a country divided by an election or a devastating brushfire, there are many high-profile events of the past that have threatened to push the fundraising landscape to its limit. From each one of these events, a key fundraising lesson has emerged.