NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

Instead, so far in 2010, giving to the United Way Worldwide (the largest charity in the survey) decreased by 4.5% and giving to Salvation Army (the second largest charity in the survey) dropped by 8.4%. billion in 2008, the council’s fourth annual “Run Walk Ride Thirty” study reports. According to stats from the RUN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. That’s pretty impressive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. Wordpress (which was not originally in the survey, they parsed this data out from the “other&# category) was at 2%. Anyway, the survey report, and survey data are worth looking at if you are shopping for a CMS. { Ok sorry for evangelizing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

The current version of MS Server in use is Server 2008. If you measure by surveying publicly accessible websites, you get Linux first at 41%-74%, Windows second at 20-42% and proprietary UNIX third at 2-5%?. On the proprietary side, there are two options. Proprietary Unix, and Microsoft Windows, and associated Microsoft Software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. and how they like them. So go rate your CMS ! {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. No concrete conclusions can be drawn about overall use of or satisfaction with CRM tools from this survey. December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05% million of them.) How could that be representative?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 63% raised over $50,000.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That’s painful, but for perspective: TechCrunch tracked more than 100,000 tech layoffs between August and December 2008. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. Distributed and Determined.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. As you know, NOSI is doing a survey on the use of FOSS in the nonprofit sector. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A reactive start: How the recession sparked the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment The economic downturn of 2008 forced the foundation to downsize, reducing our global headcount. To better understand what caused this, we included DEI-related questions in exit interviews and staff surveys, analyzing the data by identity group to spot trends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

overall in 2008. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7% million compared to $33.19

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. { I can’t wait to get my grubby little fingers on the data on CiviCRM and Salesforce. So, let your voice be heard! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The results of two new surveys paint a bleak picture of the effectiveness of social media for fundraising and volunteer recruitment. A second survey, from the Cone communications agency , reached similar conclusions. It concludes that: Social technologies are not delivering much in terms of fundraising or attracting volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. 2008 Winners. View the list of winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Awards (selected by nearly 4,000 voters in the field).

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In fact in a recent NFP Synergy survey ( Virtual Promise 2008 ) 49% of folks said they don't measure this stuff at all! One thing that has been bothering me lately is the amount I've been talking to folks about their online success. So many people I've spoken to lately are not measuring how successful online has been for them.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The findings included: 96% of respondents accept matching gifts (down from 99% in 2008), but only 60% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

at 7:21 pm What did you get out of this survey? [poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

76 percent of the founders surveyed are under 40, reinforcing the stereotype that entrepreneurship is a young person’s game. As you might expect by now, the majority of startups surveyed had small team sizes. . It also helps explain the overall tendency towards lower salaries. Serial entrepreneurs vs first-time entrepreneurs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. I’m trying to change that with this annual award program, highlighting the best in nonprofit taglines.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been surveying large American companies on their philanthropy annually since 2005.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

November 2010 Fundraising Survey The first Nonprofit Research Collaborative fundraising survey is based on completed questions from 2,349 charities, 163 foundations, and 386 grant makers. Invitations to participate in the survey were sent by the six partner organizations to their constituents.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Moreover, personalization holds high appeal, with 80% of survey respondents indicating they are more likely to do business with a company if it offers personalized experiences and 90% indicating that they find personalization appealing, according to a survey by Epsilon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ or at least not fast enough. The survey will be one of the centerpieces of discussion at this year’s GEO conference being held in Seattle, March 12-14. Is grantmaking getting smarter?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To start with, we conducted a survey (tweet tweet!) Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011. is through mobile devices! Why Go Mobile? Get Engaged!

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

The first study is the “Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey&# which was developed by Blackbaud and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council. An online survey of individuals who have participated in at least one walk, ride, or run event in the last two years was conducted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions.

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark » Wednesday Jan 16 2008 So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 03:57PM | by James OMalley Help us help you by taking the frogloop 2008 Reader Survey ! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Main | Care2.com

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. billion was given in 2008 to US charities, exceeding $300 billion for the second year in a row. Giving USA estimates that $307.65

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2009

NTEN partnered with the NonProfit Times on this survey to offer a closer look at the current state of nonprofit IT staffing in general, and to give organizations the information they need to evaluate and improve their own IT staffing. We began this effort with the 2006 survey, the first of its kind. > Get the Report.

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