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25 Global Trends in Giving That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These donors are most likely to support the causes of children and youth (15%) , health and wellness (11%) , and animals and wildlife (11%). 9) Religious donors are more likely to give to charitable organizations that provide basic needs and support the causes of children and youth, health and wellness, and hunger and homelessness.

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25 Must-Know Global Trends in Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Across the ideological spectrum, children and youth is the cause most likely to inspire giving while peace and non-violence is the least likely to inspire giving. Australia & Oceania. 18) Donors in Australia and Oceania are very unique. 62% prefer to give online which is also the highest rate in the world.

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Sending Prayers and Concrete Help to the Philippines: Bayanihan’ Spirit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Large organizations like the ones identified by in this Huffington Post list of charities are also raising money and mobilizing relief efforts, including the Red Cross , Direct Relief , and Save the Children. CharityNavigator has also published its list of charities raising money for Philippines along with their ratings.

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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

BoardAssist

When you consider that texts have a 45 per cent response rate , it makes sense for nonprofits to invest in expanding their SMS database. The average mobile pledge fulfillment rate is 84 per cent, which is aided by SMS reminders. Members open texts at a rate of over 4 times more than they open emails. Text-to-Give Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

Donor stewardship leads to better retention rates and better fundraising results down the line. If you know that you could use improvement on your new donor retention rates, you might set that at a lower goal and use this as an opportunity to try out new things like calling new donors and setting up a welcome email series.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. percent obesity rate, which ranks them as 186th.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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