Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? 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. Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more? Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0 A big thank you conference organizers! She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

These organizations represent $5.1 88% of nonprofits had at least one online gift of $1,000 or more. Haiti-related giving had a big impact on online giving trends. While you can't and wouldn't want to predict the next disaster, you should have a disaster fundraising plan in place. billion in total fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. A surge in gifts and donations quickly found their way to Free The Kids through the avenues created by influencers and advocates.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2011

Already the NonProfit Times is reporting that charitable donations are lower for the response to the disasters in Japan than to the earthquake in Haiti. The media is less focused on the human story and the media is the primary driver for disaster giving. When I hear how they are affected, it makes me want to help even more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Are larger gift amounts soon to follow? But many smaller organizations don’t. The Increment Steps To Impact.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When you remove the estimated $122 million in corporate pledges from that number, more than half of all funds raised came online through those organizations. Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A Since then, organizations have expanded mobile efforts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2011

As we all know, text-to-give has proven successful(ish), especially around disaster relief like last year’s Haiti earthquake. Plus every organization wants to be sure their website is mobile-friendly and easy to navigate on a screen the size of your palm. Take that, Marty McFly!

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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

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Achieve

JANUARY 20, 2016

As for most campaigns and nonprofit organizations, it takes months to hear back how the individuals were affected—but not in this case. One of Mallory’s first campaigns was for a family in Haiti that suffered greatly during the devastating earthquake of 2010. She was already on the ground in Haiti when the campaign started.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking How Nonprofits Can Avoid Online Credit Card Fraud Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 20th, 2011 Nonprofit organizations are a big target for online credit card fraud. Here are steps organizations can take: 1.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Invitations to participate in the survey were sent by the six partner organizations to their constituents. 37% of charities reported a decrease in giving, a noticeable improvement over 2009 when 51% of organizations reported a decline. For the responding organizations in the International sub-sector, 60% expect an increased budget.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

At this point in my life, I only give money to one nonprofit organization, and I do that through automatic monthly payments, with little thought at all to the whole process. What if I decided that, every single day, Id devote a little bit of time and a little bit of a care to a different nonprofit organization? Im a grad student!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The Report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,812 nonprofit organizations from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving , online major giving data from 2,190 nonprofits, and both online and offline data representing $5.1 growth by large organizations. Smaller nonprofits grew by 22% and medium organizations grew by 15.9%

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