sgEngage

AUGUST 1, 2023

With the rise of mailing costs coupled with worldwide fundraising competition for every cent, your nonprofit organization can’t afford to guess when it comes to your fundraising program’s direct mail expenses. Poorly maintained data leads to poorly managed programs. How many dollars did you raise and how much did it cost you?

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s official: Blackbaud will shut down and cease all support for Luminate CRM (LCRM) on June 30, 2022. While this information might not come as a surprise, there is a clear path forward for your technology strategy as it relates to managing your constituents. Winter 2021 – Complete End-Of-Year Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Fine and I originally published this blog post on the Candid Blog here. Here are the top three benefits AI has for fundraising and fundraisers: AI saves staff time. The use of AI for these tasks is not just for major gift officers from larger fundraising shops who focus exclusively on five- or six-figure gifts.

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OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

The Blackbaud Institute reports that in 2020, total online giving across the sector was up by 21% over 2019. Also consider that for many nonprofits, GivingTuesday marks the launch of their end-of-year fundraising campaign as they specifically target their mid-size and smaller dollar donors with online asks.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 29, 2021

In this blog, we’ll dissect our report and pull out the most pertinent findings related to online giving and?digital digital fundraising?in Online giving, digital fundraising, and mass shifts to the virtual environment have dramatically impacted the nonprofit space. for our nonprofit clients.? in the nonprofit sector today.?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Best of all, there are professional Google Grants managers out there to help you navigate the program and make the most compelling ads possible. In turn, professional account management can empower you to make the most of your marketing budget. How do I manage Google Grants?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2011

When we performed a Google search on "nonprofit social media integration" to find a few more links for this section, the top results were posts on our blog this month. Sticking with the entertainment theme, Event360 has a nice post on " What Event Fundraisers Can Learn from Lady Gaga ". A good donor management system.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Social media, digital advertisements, websites, and email have improved nonprofit audience outreach and fundraising. Social media fundraising,” “multichannel marketing,” and “email marketing” are now popular tactics when it comes to spreading nonprofit awareness. The specific fundraising goal you’re trying to achieve.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Speaker: Steve Maclaughlin, Blackbaud. Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. If you can’t measure it, then you can’t manage it. It all starts with measuring your own performance. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)?

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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’re not appropriately monitoring performance, how can you gauge success? Infographics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. The last three years, in particular, have shown how online giving continues to be a growth engine for fundraising in the nonprofit sector. of total fundraising revenue.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. Organizations often find themselves outgrowing the smaller donor management software they have used for years. Best Internet-Based Fundraising and Donor Management System? A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donation Management Systems.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

James Rooney, senior manager of Microsoft Philanthropies, kicked off the first day's general session, highlighting the free cloud services available to nonprofits. Steve MacLaughlin, VP of data analytics at Blackbaud and author of Data Driven Nonprofits , broke down what successful nonprofits do to manage big data.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s definitely possible to run a modern nonprofit event without employing any event management software—but it’s not easy. If you want to handle event planning, ticketing, registration, communications, and fundraising by hand, we salute you—but you probably wouldn’t be reading this guide to event management software for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2013

Guest Post by Andy Welkley , Product Marketing Manager for Blackbaud’s Peer to Peer solutions. The competition your organization faces for patron dollars has never been hotter, and savvy organizations have started taking advantage of channels, like Peer to Peer, that have not been traditionally part of their fundraising mix.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

This is a guest post from Anah McRae, Manager of Customer Support for Altru at Blackbaud. According to the blog justgiving.com there are 5 key motivators for giving: to support a particular organization, because we are inspired by other’s stories, to support a cause, to feel good, and. to participate in an event. Make it fun!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Is it performing well? Hopefully, your year-end fundraising efforts have gone off without a hitch, but the best (and busiest) campaigns tend to reveal gaps or outdated parts of your toolkit. Your blog, if you have one. Your homepage, “about us” page, your newsfeed or blog, and your donation page are the bare essentials. .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, the most popular posts have been in the areas of fundraising best practices, major gifts, and data management! 10 Troubling Observations about the State of Fundraising Today by Leigh Brown Perkins, Blackbaud The resiliency of fundraising teams has been tested over the past two years.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Adopt a CRM system, such as Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT + Rosterfy , to allow volunteers to seamlessly manage their experience with your organization, including: Onboarding Scheduling Training Recognize that volunteers have busy lives outside of your organization, and it’s your job to understand their commitments. Authors Barbara L.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

He worked in a number of fundraising capacities at the national level starting in 1987 and moved to New York in 1992. Tom is currently at Convio as Vice President of the Common Ground product line, a nonprofit constituent relationship management solution that Convio built on the Force.com platform from Salesforce.com.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2023

The resiliency of fundraising teams has been tested over the past few years; thankfully, organizations were able to adapt despite tremendous uncertainty. However, based on data from the Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management Community, ten concerning trends have emerged from this time as well.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Technology impacts many areas of your nonprofit’s operations, from donor management to fundraising, accounting, marketing, and more. Managing data about supporters. The goal is to understand which solutions you’re currently using and how well they perform with the following questions in mind: What works well?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, you might discuss how the fundraising work of volunteers and nonprofit staff members raised crucial funds that paid for a certain amount of food distributed in your community. Team DNL recently hosted a webinar with Blackbaud that was all about using technology to tell your nonprofit’s story. Check it out here.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now is the time of year when blog editors worldwide ask their writers for predictions and trends for the coming year. For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.).

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Achieve

MARCH 17, 2023

Your nonprofit needs a reliable way to reach donors, especially when fundraising deadlines are tight and you need support fast. As a result, your nonprofit can build its donor base and bring even more attention to its fundraising campaigns and events, allowing you to propel your mission forward. Generate blog content.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

That means that organizations with a major giving or annual fund focus are likely to have some performance differences. Nonprofit organizations need to focus even more on stewardship, relationship management, and diversification of fundraising sources. Retention rates for both new online and offline donors are bad.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Troubling Nonprofit Statistics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 28th, 2010 I spend a lot of time looking at metrics and benchmarks from across the nonprofit sector. That’s not the case this time.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She also writes for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and she also has one of the most read personal blogs in NPTech. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Find his blog here. " Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

Millennials’ giving is different from their parents…My 23-year-old son wouldn’t know what to do with an envelope. – Dennis McCarthy, director of sales at Blackbaud. Traditional marketing and fundraising efforts just aren’t enough to attract and retain support anymore. Social Media. “ Social Media. “

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