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The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 The report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing $1.7 2013 Charitable Giving Report INFOGRAPHIC. MORE
Now in its third year, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries. The Global NGO Technology Report is a sister report to the Global Trends in Giving Report. Tech Report MORE
Wouldn’t it be a shame to have inadequate reporting and analysis to actually find out how your medium-spanning strategy performed? You will want to know where all of your end-of-year actions and gifts are sourced from, so keep reporting and tracking top of mind as you begin implementing your plan with these pointers: Google Analytics Audit. A sweep of your current Google Analytics tracking may show that you need to tweak your code or funnel setup for accurate campaign reporting. MORE
Behind the Disconnect—86% of Nonprofits Characterize Their Messages as Difficult to Remember: Most nonprofits report that their messaging suffers from lack of inspiration (73%) and poor targeting to audience wants and needs (70%), and is difficult to remember (86%). Inconsistency Reigns, Leaving Confusion and Annoyance in Its Path: Less than 50% of nonprofits report consistent use of their positioning (organizational tagline, positioning statement and talking points). MORE
This 2017 Charitable Giving Report gives us our first means of answering that question through data. As our first glimpse into the data behind the trends, the 2017 Charitable Giving Report offers us a place to start. Across the world, 2017 was a year defined by change and uncertainty. MORE
The reports listed below are a small sampling of some of the research available to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. If you would like to suggest a specific report be added to the list, please contact Heather Mansfield. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S. MORE
Real-time reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. The Trend of Live Reporting During Events. Live reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. MORE
Here are a few of the most eye-popping statistics from the 2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing Report. The initiatives that nonprofit marketers report working on most are: becoming better storytellers (66%), creating visual content (63%), and creating more engaging/higher-quality content (62%). MORE
Blackbaud just released it’s 2013 Charitable Giving Report, showing steady growth for all nonprofits. Blackbaud reported more than one-third of all charitable giving happens in the last three months of the year. Download the report today! MORE
Dashboard reports: pre-built, real-time, graphical, and permission controlled. We''ve been hearing the need: deploy reports from pre-built data sets so users don''t have to work with the data from scratch. Because the dashboard reports are fully integrated with the content management system, this means you can create your own stakeholder-specific narrative report, replete with dashboard summaries about the metrics important to your funders and decision makers. MORE
Internet Trends Report 2018 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Tons of useful and interesting data, as always. Grab a coffee – this will take you a while to get through. Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash. Debunking the Hype Industry Insider Useful Data MORE
M+R's 2018 Benchmarks Study reported that, "nonprofit homepages took 3.181 seconds on average to load content visible to the user, while the main donation page on each site loaded in 2.816 seconds," and that even a one-second delay in loading time could lead to an 11% decrease in traffic to the page. MORE
Alia McKee and Mark Rovner with Sea Change Strategies recently released a new report called “The Missing Middle: Neglecting Middle Donors Is Costing You Millions. The findings from all of their research is in the new report. There are some really good insights and suggestions in this section of the report. The report includes some case studies from Human Right’s Campaign and Rainforest Alliance. You can download the report here: [link]. MORE
The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is based on the survey results of 6,057 donors worldwide and available for download in four languages – English , español , français , and português. Research Giving Report Fundraising MORE
The 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report is now available, just in time for #bbcon! It’s the largest and most comprehensive report of its kind, using data from nearly 800 Luminate Online customers to help you evaluate your overall strategies and performance in online fundraising. MORE
Technology for Good Report : Technology for Good identifies ten technologies being used in innovative ways to create positive social change. Examples are drawn from charitable organizations working on widely varied issues around the globe. This makes Technology for Good a unique repository of inspiration for the public and private sectors, funders, and other change makers who support using technology for social good MORE
Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy is the longest running, annual report on U.S. Give it a listen: The get the complete Giving USA 2013 report please visit: www.givingusareports.org. MORE
The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 The report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing $1.7 MORE
fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. No wonder than, I am commonly asked; “What are the top web analytics reports and tools every nonprofit should know?&#. Source Report. Keyword Report. MORE
Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. The report is packed with insights into how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their marketing, communications and fundraising strategies. MORE
Author: Cheryl Black. Remember back in sixth grade when you had a summer reading list? Big nerd that I am, I never quit having a summer reading list. The 2012 Summer Reading List for me included some light reading like The Confession (ok maybe that one wasn't so light.) MORE
The 2014 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,798 nonprofit organizations representing more than $16.2 The report also includes online giving data from 3,724 nonprofits representing over $2 billion in online fundraising. MORE
Here’s a video of Jeff Patrick , president of Common Knowledge , being interviewed by Melanie Mathos at the 2012 NTC conference explaining the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. Jeff goes over topics in the report such as ROI, value of a new fan/follower, commercial social networks, and resources for strategies. If you don’t have a copy of the report, you can get it here. Research Tools Video benchmark ntc report roi YouTube MORE
The Community Roundtable’s seminal State of Community Management Report 2018 is out!! Here are a few excerpts from the SOCM report. And my personal favorite chart: DOWNLOAD AND READ THE WHOLE REPORT to get the scoop on all of this and a LOT more. MORE
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. . Here are a few key highlights from the report that pertain to email performance: 1. Every one of the 20 cohorts measured in the report experienced positive growth in usable email file size. Nonprofit Marketing eMail marketing luminate online Luminate Online Benchmark Report Online Fundraising online giving MORE
The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report provides insight on the online and mobile communication tools NGOs around the world use to promote general awareness, communicate with core audiences and raise funds from donors, as well as an analysis of those online tools and comparisons of regional usage. MORE
The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 The report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing $1.7 MORE
The release of the 9 th Luminate Online Benchmark Report is an opportunity for nonprofits to take stock of how the nonprofit sector is performing online, and what recent trends tell us about donor and giving behavior. MORE
We are pleased to support their work with our Community Operating System (formerly Tapestry) and wanted to do a shout out about their excellent reporting. Here''s to powerful reporting! Kudos to the United Way of Denver and their Colorado 2-1-1 partners. MORE
Here are some key tools your nonprofit should have to meet your reporting needs: Customizable reports that allow you to get roll up data and detailed data. Depending on your CRM, you might have fully customizable reports where you build them from scratch or canned reports with all the columns and form fields ready for you to run. Ideally, your perfect reporting tool combines the two. Purely canned reports are inflexible and won’t always fit your reporting needs. MORE
Insights from the Blackbaud #GivingTuesday Trends Report : "By most accounts, the annual late November #GivingTuesday online giving tradition has been gaining traction since 2012. TechSoup donor partner Blackbaud recently released a report that digs deep into the #GivingTuesday results over three years to reveal the patterns that are emerging from this increasingly important national day of charitable giving. MORE
This is based on the latest findings of the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact in the 2 016 Charitable Giving Report. The 2016 Charitable Giving Report includes overall giving data from 6,845 nonprofit organizations representing $23 billion in total fundraising from 2016. MORE
The release of the 9th Luminate Online Benchmark Report is an opportunity for nonprofits to take stock of how the nonprofit sector is performing online, and what recent trends tell us about donor and giving behavior. MORE
Every year nonprofits present their accomplishments and projects to their supporters and the general public in an annual report. An annual report details an organization’s mission, growth over the course of the year, projects that helped serve the community, statistics related to the organization’s cause, and much more. Ultimately, your organization’s annual report can be used to… Annual Giving Annual Reports MORE
How can they get the rest of the team to focus and understand the critical financial reports their nonprofit is generating? Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports. Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging. MORE
For more insight into how fundraising fared this past year, take a look at Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2015. The 2015 Charitable Giving Report includes more than $18.2 MORE
Blackbaud’s 2015 Charitable Giving Report includes more than $18.2 A few highlights from the report: International Affairs organizations had the largest year-over-year increase in charitable giving. Download your copy of this important report for free! MORE
Blackbaud recently released its fifth annual Charitable Giving Report, and it offers major lessons for institutions of higher education looking to increase fundraising capacity over the coming years. You can get your free copy of the Charitable Giving Report here: Don’t miss out! MORE
I was lucky enough to get a preview of the Money for Good 2015 report and it’s full of surprising (and not so surprising) data, insights and recommendations for organizations, funders and vendors. Never heard of the $FG report? Download and read the report. MORE
The new Giving in an Election Year Report , along with the benefit of hindsight, shows me why I was wrong. Download the full report at www.blackbaud.com/election. An election year always focuses the mind—on many different things. MORE
Have you downloaded the 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report yet? Join us next Tuesday, October 21 st at 1 PM Eastern for a webinar: The 10 Must-Know Data Points from the 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. . MORE
Whether you''ve been filing reports for years or managing your first PAC, you understand the crucial role that filing software plays in making sure the numbers always come out right. MORE
Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. Reporting live requires undivided attention to do it well, and if it’s not done well, then it’s not worth doing. People are following the event, not the reporter. MORE
Each year, blackbaud puts out a charitable giving report. This report offers the community a chance to compare numbers, and helps individual nonprofits stack the effectiveness of their fundraising campaigns up against national averages. MORE
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Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. The report is packed with insights into how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their marketing, communications and fundraising strategies.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 12, 2014
The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 The report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing $1.7 2013 Charitable Giving Report INFOGRAPHIC.
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This 2017 Charitable Giving Report gives us our first means of answering that question through data. As our first glimpse into the data behind the trends, the 2017 Charitable Giving Report offers us a place to start. Across the world, 2017 was a year defined by change and uncertainty.
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
This is based on the latest findings of the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact in the 2 016 Charitable Giving Report. The 2016 Charitable Giving Report includes overall giving data from 6,845 nonprofit organizations representing $23 billion in total fundraising from 2016.
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The 2014 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,798 nonprofit organizations representing more than $16.2 The report also includes online giving data from 3,724 nonprofits representing over $2 billion in online fundraising.
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Alia McKee and Mark Rovner with Sea Change Strategies recently released a new report called “The Missing Middle: Neglecting Middle Donors Is Costing You Millions. The findings from all of their research is in the new report. There are some really good insights and suggestions in this section of the report. The report includes some case studies from Human Right’s Campaign and Rainforest Alliance. You can download the report here: [link].
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Blackbaud’s 2015 Charitable Giving Report includes more than $18.2 A few highlights from the report: International Affairs organizations had the largest year-over-year increase in charitable giving. Download your copy of this important report for free!
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I was lucky enough to get a preview of the Money for Good 2015 report and it’s full of surprising (and not so surprising) data, insights and recommendations for organizations, funders and vendors. Never heard of the $FG report? Download and read the report.
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Internet Trends Report 2018 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Tons of useful and interesting data, as always. Grab a coffee – this will take you a while to get through. Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash. Debunking the Hype Industry Insider Useful Data
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Now in its third year, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries. The Global NGO Technology Report is a sister report to the Global Trends in Giving Report. Tech Report
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The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 The report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing $1.7
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The release of the 9th Luminate Online Benchmark Report is an opportunity for nonprofits to take stock of how the nonprofit sector is performing online, and what recent trends tell us about donor and giving behavior.
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Author: Cheryl Black. Remember back in sixth grade when you had a summer reading list? Big nerd that I am, I never quit having a summer reading list. The 2012 Summer Reading List for me included some light reading like The Confession (ok maybe that one wasn't so light.)
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The 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report is now available, just in time for #bbcon! It’s the largest and most comprehensive report of its kind, using data from nearly 800 Luminate Online customers to help you evaluate your overall strategies and performance in online fundraising.
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The new Giving in an Election Year Report , along with the benefit of hindsight, shows me why I was wrong. Download the full report at www.blackbaud.com/election. An election year always focuses the mind—on many different things.
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The release of the 9 th Luminate Online Benchmark Report is an opportunity for nonprofits to take stock of how the nonprofit sector is performing online, and what recent trends tell us about donor and giving behavior.
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Technology for Good Report : Technology for Good identifies ten technologies being used in innovative ways to create positive social change. Examples are drawn from charitable organizations working on widely varied issues around the globe. This makes Technology for Good a unique repository of inspiration for the public and private sectors, funders, and other change makers who support using technology for social good
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Blackbaud recently released its fifth annual Charitable Giving Report, and it offers major lessons for institutions of higher education looking to increase fundraising capacity over the coming years. You can get your free copy of the Charitable Giving Report here: Don’t miss out!
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fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. No wonder than, I am commonly asked; “What are the top web analytics reports and tools every nonprofit should know?&#. Source Report. Keyword Report.
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Here are some key tools your nonprofit should have to meet your reporting needs: Customizable reports that allow you to get roll up data and detailed data. Depending on your CRM, you might have fully customizable reports where you build them from scratch or canned reports with all the columns and form fields ready for you to run. Ideally, your perfect reporting tool combines the two. Purely canned reports are inflexible and won’t always fit your reporting needs.
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Insights from the Blackbaud #GivingTuesday Trends Report : "By most accounts, the annual late November #GivingTuesday online giving tradition has been gaining traction since 2012. TechSoup donor partner Blackbaud recently released a report that digs deep into the #GivingTuesday results over three years to reveal the patterns that are emerging from this increasingly important national day of charitable giving.
Connection Cafe
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Have you downloaded the 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report yet? Join us next Tuesday, October 21 st at 1 PM Eastern for a webinar: The 10 Must-Know Data Points from the 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. .
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Every year nonprofits present their accomplishments and projects to their supporters and the general public in an annual report. An annual report details an organization’s mission, growth over the course of the year, projects that helped serve the community, statistics related to the organization’s cause, and much more. Ultimately, your organization’s annual report can be used to… Annual Giving Annual Reports
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Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy is the longest running, annual report on U.S. Give it a listen: The get the complete Giving USA 2013 report please visit: www.givingusareports.org.
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Each year, blackbaud puts out a charitable giving report. This report offers the community a chance to compare numbers, and helps individual nonprofits stack the effectiveness of their fundraising campaigns up against national averages.
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The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report provides insight on the online and mobile communication tools NGOs around the world use to promote general awareness, communicate with core audiences and raise funds from donors, as well as an analysis of those online tools and comparisons of regional usage.
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Whether you''ve been filing reports for years or managing your first PAC, you understand the crucial role that filing software plays in making sure the numbers always come out right.
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The reports listed below are a small sampling of some of the research available to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. If you would like to suggest a specific report be added to the list, please contact Heather Mansfield. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S.
Connection Cafe
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Wouldn’t it be a shame to have inadequate reporting and analysis to actually find out how your medium-spanning strategy performed? You will want to know where all of your end-of-year actions and gifts are sourced from, so keep reporting and tracking top of mind as you begin implementing your plan with these pointers: Google Analytics Audit. A sweep of your current Google Analytics tracking may show that you need to tweak your code or funnel setup for accurate campaign reporting.
Connection Cafe
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For more insight into how fundraising fared this past year, take a look at Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2015. The 2015 Charitable Giving Report includes more than $18.2
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M+R's 2018 Benchmarks Study reported that, "nonprofit homepages took 3.181 seconds on average to load content visible to the user, while the main donation page on each site loaded in 2.816 seconds," and that even a one-second delay in loading time could lead to an 11% decrease in traffic to the page.
Connection Cafe
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Blackbaud just released it’s 2013 Charitable Giving Report, showing steady growth for all nonprofits. Blackbaud reported more than one-third of all charitable giving happens in the last three months of the year. Download the report today!
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We are pleased to support their work with our Community Operating System (formerly Tapestry) and wanted to do a shout out about their excellent reporting. Here''s to powerful reporting! Kudos to the United Way of Denver and their Colorado 2-1-1 partners.
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Here’s a video of Jeff Patrick , president of Common Knowledge , being interviewed by Melanie Mathos at the 2012 NTC conference explaining the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. Jeff goes over topics in the report such as ROI, value of a new fan/follower, commercial social networks, and resources for strategies. If you don’t have a copy of the report, you can get it here. Research Tools Video benchmark ntc report roi YouTube
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The Community Roundtable’s seminal State of Community Management Report 2018 is out!! Here are a few excerpts from the SOCM report. And my personal favorite chart: DOWNLOAD AND READ THE WHOLE REPORT to get the scoop on all of this and a LOT more.
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Dashboard reports: pre-built, real-time, graphical, and permission controlled. We''ve been hearing the need: deploy reports from pre-built data sets so users don''t have to work with the data from scratch. Because the dashboard reports are fully integrated with the content management system, this means you can create your own stakeholder-specific narrative report, replete with dashboard summaries about the metrics important to your funders and decision makers.
Connection Cafe
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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. . Here are a few key highlights from the report that pertain to email performance: 1. Every one of the 20 cohorts measured in the report experienced positive growth in usable email file size. Nonprofit Marketing eMail marketing luminate online Luminate Online Benchmark Report Online Fundraising online giving
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Real-time reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. The Trend of Live Reporting During Events. Live reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice.
TechImpact
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
Here are a few of the most eye-popping statistics from the 2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing Report. The initiatives that nonprofit marketers report working on most are: becoming better storytellers (66%), creating visual content (63%), and creating more engaging/higher-quality content (62%).
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MAY 4, 2014
Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. Reporting live requires undivided attention to do it well, and if it’s not done well, then it’s not worth doing. People are following the event, not the reporter.
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JANUARY 26, 2010
Behind the Disconnect—86% of Nonprofits Characterize Their Messages as Difficult to Remember: Most nonprofits report that their messaging suffers from lack of inspiration (73%) and poor targeting to audience wants and needs (70%), and is difficult to remember (86%). Inconsistency Reigns, Leaving Confusion and Annoyance in Its Path: Less than 50% of nonprofits report consistent use of their positioning (organizational tagline, positioning statement and talking points).
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