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Taking Action: Fundraising Trends And Best Practices From Bloomerang’s ‘Fundraising Planning and Climate Report’

Bloomerang

General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones.

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5 Nonprofit Technology Trends to Watch in 2017

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Furthermore, email revenue grew by 25% in 2015, faster than the 19% overall rate of online revenue growth ( 2016 M+R Benchmarks Study ). In truth, email is resulting in more online donations than ever – definitely more than social media – and by 2019 the total number of email accounts worldwide will grow from 4.35 billion to 5.59

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There are rage tweeters and arrogant trolls that occasionally trend to the top. There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news.

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Think Email’s Dead? Metrics from the Online Benchmark Report Disagree

Connection Cafe

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. . With a 60% increase in email volume sent I would have expected that trend to continue. But it didn’t. Flat open rates represent a very big change from the recent past.

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A Closer Look at Nonprofit Technology Benchmarks: Tech Adoption Levels

NTEN

[This is part three of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. You can download the complete report for free here.]

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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

Candid

Our first task was to develop a shared definition for “people of color-led and people of color-serving” organizations. We decided to develop a shared definition is for benchmarking only. We quickly learned, however, of the complexity of defining the terms. At the W.K.

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Inspired by Corporations’ Investment in Purpose and Social Responsibility Throughout the Crisis and Hardships of 2020

sgEngage

Companies large and small are investing in purpose and social responsibility programs: Our report includes an analysis of employee engagement trends across companies with 0 – 100,000+ employees. We see that organizations of all sizes rallied their employees to give and serve others in their local communities and around the world.