Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ? Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more?

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Benchmark Advocacy Studies Metrics 76

Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2011

Downtime may be hard to come by with SXSWi , NTC and AFP International activity this week, but just in case you have a few minutes to burn waiting for a flight, train or a panel to start, I’m arming you with some exhilarating reading material — the Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Index Study. What about Haiti relief?

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Convio Benchmark Studies Haiti 51

Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

Convio acquired StrategicOne earlier this year, and they have done significant analytics on disaster donations with some hefty data sets to look at, so Katie Beth had some excellent suggestions. A disaster happened and an organization receives a sudden, spontaneous burst of giving. Did they designate the gift?

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Disaster Donor Japan Test 26

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The year-over-year growth was in large part due to the tremendous amount of online giving towards the Haiti Earthquake. It is also worth noting that online giving spikes during disasters or extraordinary circumstances. In non-disaster fundraising, The Communities Foundation of Texas raised $10.7 How do you know all this stuff?

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Raise Money Online Giving 85

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Disaster Giving Trends 7% of organizations received contributions for the Haitian earthquake relief, and 3% received donations for Pakistan flood relief. Of the organizations receiving gifts for Haiti, 59% passed the donation along to another organization and 41% funded their own relief efforts. sectional studies.

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Collaboration Research Report Indiana 75

sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

Don’t use a blank gift amount on your donation forms. Most fraud starts with $1 gifts so that the criminals can test the numbers. Setting a minimum gift amount or using that in combination with a specific ask string will help. Here are steps organizations can take: 1.

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Online Blackbaud Nonprofit Test 64

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Haiti-related giving shaped 2010 trends January 2010 had the largest percentage of online giving for the entire year. This change can almost single handedly be attributed to giving to Haiti relief efforts. Donors continue to make significant gifts online In 2010, 88% of organizations had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more.

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