Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study is making its eleventh highly anticipated appearance on the desks of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraisers everywhere. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Blackbaud’s annual Online Benchmark report was released earlier this month at #bbcon and the results speak largely to a positive outlook for nonprofit fundraising. . Total online fundraising is up 8% YOY, with double digit growth in both repeat and sustained giving. The total number of email recipients was up 72%.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

How Donor Management Software Can Help Manage Recurring Donors Consider the fundraising elements of a healthy donor network: marketing campaigns and analytics, research efforts, database maintenance, fundraiser performance tracking, and donor communications. The post What Are Recurring Donations? first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Speaker: Steve Maclaughlin, Blackbaud. Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. Industry benchmarks are meaningless unless you know how your organization compares to them. Tags: 10NTC 5 questions NPTech NTEN Fundraising. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Virtual bbcon 2020 is fast approaching, with thousands of nonprofits registrants, many of whom are fundraising, communications and marketing pros like yourself: ready to expand your vision with fresh ideas and actionable inspiration! Where do we need to innovate to meet our fundraising and campaign goals as resilient nonprofits?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Encourage participants to fundraise. Profit/loss.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

This post was written in collaboration with Bryan Snyder, Senior Marketing Analyst for Blackbaud. In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). Email Marketing Interactive Online Fundraising'

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. The human talent component of fundraising is vital to a successful development office. The human talent component of fundraising is vital to a successful development office. They spend time cultivating and engaging donors.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2013

Nicole McGougan is a public relations associate at Blackbaud. The 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study. Find out how your organization compares to its peers in online fundraising, if your organization is doing everything it should online, and if your fundraising programs are performing as well as they should.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. How can we use our data during our fundraising event or campaign to identify opportunities that help us achieve our goals? Warm Bodies.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Several of our Blackbaud nonprofit customers have recently had incredible success using a personalized approach to email: 1) An animal rights organization doubled click-through rates by personalizing an event email invitation with: The last year people attended. How much the event raised that year.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2014

So I broke down and purchased a FitBit and as a metrics geek, I have to say I love it! So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit? So what metrics should you check out to monitor the health of your peer-to-peer fundraising event? Team Captains. Self-Donations and Average Gift.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. Key Numbers in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Over time, we’ve isolated certain benchmarks that provide clues to the health of an event. Common peer-to-peer benchmarks include the following: Repeat attendance.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Last week Blackbaud released the results of our 2016 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising study. The study takes a deep dive into the metrics, statistics, and trends of four different peer-to-peer fundraising event types: cycling, endurance, 5Ks and walks. Do-it-yourself (DIY) fundraising performance. billion in event revenue.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Nonprofit statistics covering fundraising, charitable giving, online giving, social media, mobile, donor retention, email marketing, stewardship, donor research, charitable organizations, donor trends, direct mail, giving, and other key not-for-profit charitable giving metrics and benchmarks.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

After working on over 400 nonprofit email recruitment campaigns, and helping clients plan successful recruitment strategies, I’ve realized that most nonprofits don''t send nearly enough standalone fundraising appeals. In short, more good emails = more revenue. If you break that down, it''s two per month, on average.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fundraising campaign management. This includes tracking all planning efforts for fundraising campaigns, as well as the progression toward fundraising goals throughout the campaign itself. You can also track team members’ efforts to ensure everyone is on track to meet their fundraising or stewardship goals for the time period.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. The last three months of the year represent a critical time for the fundraising efforts of nonprofit organizations. Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Watch the donorCentrics® 2018 Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving featuring Shaun Keister, PhD, vice chancellor of the University of California-Davis, for the online presentation of the Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance. . You can also use this to identify key pockets that may need additional investment. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

In my previous posts, I shared how NEXT Worldwide and AIDS Arms encourage their participants to use centralized fundraising tools, but how do you know if your participants are using these tools? Individuals who personalize their fundraising pages and use online tools raise six times more funds than those who do not. Sending emails?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

How did your last email fundraising appeal perform? Email marketing is the foundation for most nonprofits' education, advocacy, volunteering, and fundraising efforts online. Let's take a quick tour of the most important metrics, and take the first step to improving your email campaign performance through evaluation and optimization.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2017

I recently returned to Blackbaud after a 3-year stint working for a large cancer hospital where I established a brand new institutional P2P fundraising event—The Boot Walk to End Cancer. Typically, these folks also function on your event committee and can be a key indicator of the overall personal fundraising efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

The weather is warm, summer camps are in full swing, BBQs are a weekly occurrence, and as the sixth month of the year wraps up, some organizations are already gearing up for end-of-the-year asks and setting up holiday campaign fundraising goals. Compare your fundraising performance against the Overall Index.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2015

In my chapter of the new Blackbaud ebook, Drab to Fab: Peer-to-Peer Event Makeover , I explore the important “clues” to look for in your “archaeological” data. Fundraising performance metrics. Average fundraising per participant. Average fundraising per fundraiser. Percent of participants who fundraise.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Like thousands of other fundraisers, I’ll be attending BBCON in Washington DC this week. 1:30 PM – Google Analytics to Make Your Organization a Fundraising Powerhouse. It’s no secret that I am a certifiable fundraising nerd and I am really excited about all the sessions around social listening. Friday, Oct 28.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

According to Blackbaud data, online giving last #GivingTuesday was up 20% on a year-over-year basis compared to 2015. Blackbaud processed more than $47.7 Once you understand what actions you want to drive on the day, set milestones and benchmarks for success. Fundraising Goal. Set personal fundraising goals.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I spent the first few days of this week at Blackbaud’s Annual Conference for Nonprofits (#bbcon), and was granted the invaluable privilege of meeting and speaking with many of you : the forces that keep this industry thriving. If you were unable to attend #bbcon, Blackbaud’s own Ryan King has you covered.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

bbcon 2020 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be presenting on the critical role of benchmarking and analytics in shaping your fundraising strategy. Average gifts, retention rates, channel giving, big data, small data…the sheer volume of information involved with fundraising can be daunting.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re ready to ride that momentum to connect with donors who have the means and the motivation to give big to your cause, it’s time to learn how to build your nonprofit’s major gifts fundraising program. Most social good organizations receive more than 80% of their fundraising dollars from fewer than 20% of their donors.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Philip King: We absolutely do!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

Whether it’s via the Blackbaud Community , local networking sessions or even events such as bbcon , nonprofits readily collaborate with their peers on best practices. The whitepaper shows how to navigate these barriers by identifying common opportunities and examples of successful benchmarking. My ask is simple.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Allegiance Group Allegiance Group partners with nonprofits and associations to inspire action and achieve more through fundraising, marketing, and technology solutions. They’re a reliable partner for all your marketing, fundraising, and technology needs, and you can trust them to create a holistic approach to your marketing.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

The following Q&A is excerpted from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report Spotlight: Using 2020 Data to Transform Your Higher Education Institution’s Strategy. We will soon publish results from our work in alumni engagement metrics, and that insight should help institutions as they plan. in our 2019 report.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And yet, I don’t know a single nonprofit leader who’s not juggling 15 balls: trying to keep fundraising up, their team happy, and programs running smoothly to create the impact they intended. The comparative reports give you a benchmark for performance, comparing your results to last month or last year. But often things change.

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