Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face. However, you can always go old-school and coordinate through email or phone. Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family. Check it out: Click for our full Give to the Max Day 2012 results.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. Use your website, in particular, and other Internet outposts as a way to build relationships with donors online. Your website is still your home base online.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

And with the publishing of the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , 5 main lessons learned in the way of multi-channel marketing were evident in 2009. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement. Two emails from the same nonprofit in one day? She thanked me for my input and apologized for bombarding me with emails.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2011

Check out these Stats: In 2009, 31% of associations reported that membership renewal rates decreased in the previous year. Content (online and offline) and products aimed at your members. Reaching Members Through Word of Mouth and Websites. 67% learn about associations through emails and direct mail.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Visit the original post here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

More than $250 million was raised online for Haitian relief efforts in the first 21 days after the quake through Convio powered emails, websites, and other campaigns (up from approximately $120 million in the same period during Katrina). billion emails, drive 44 million advocacy actions and power more than 3,500 websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)? Integrating online and offline communications. The old fashioned form of integration.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Websites, Email & Constituent Management from Laura Quinn: Your website is you, online. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel. The details of your emails are critical.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that multichannel fundraising, i.e. enabling your donors to give via postal mail, your website, telemarketing, social media, etc. How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? is the answer to all of your fundraising woes.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

The New Year has officially begun, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the year past, or for most people, look forward to see what resolutions and initiatives can be planned to make the new 2010 better than 2009. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness. Increase fundraising for participant-led events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

Despite the large drop for International Affairs organizations, since 2009 nonprofits in all verticals have seen double-digit growth with International Affairs organizations leading the way, realizing 75 percent growth. How many people visit your organization’s website each month? Partner websites? Search engines?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Websites, Email & Constituent Management from Laura Quinn: Your website is you, online. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel. The details of your emails are critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. I was lucky enough to do a quick email interview with Robert Chatwani, eBay’s head of Global Citizenship, to learn more behind the numbers. (1)

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. 25% of donors aged 65 and older give both online and offline. The median online gift above $1,000 was $3,500 in 2009. Also, a higher percentage of donors with annual incomes greater than $50,000 and beyond $100,000 give online than offline.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology Can your website and giving forms handle 4x their normal traffic? Do you have a scaled down shadow website ready to go? Do you have email templates ready to go? Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go? What is the follow-up plan for the media, donors, etc? All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Disaster Giving Giving both online and offline towards disaster relief had a significant impact on the nonprofit sector in 2010. Small and medium organizations were up in the analysis, but large nonprofits were down 28.2%. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The difference is that Causes is continuing to blur the line between online and offline activity. That means taking things offline and into a traditional retail environment. Companies like TisBest and Network for Good’s Good Card have been available for a few years now. Will it work? Is it worth paying attention to? Absolutely.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Read more about the methodology. over last year.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

This article was originally published on Kimbia's website.]. Myth #1: Online fundraising isn't as effective as offline techniques. Set high expectations and focus on achieving better results in 2009. One widely held belief is that donors choose to give offline because of security and privacy concerns. Thon Morse, Kimbia.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. for the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. for the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. for the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 All Rights Reserved

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So check that out of you’re interested, if you never heard of us, got all kinds of good stuff on our website. I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009. Rose, I do the same thing and I actually have to send emails that say some version of, in my mind I had already replied because it’s true. No big deal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. This includes using email, web site presence, google ads, face-to-face events and reaching out to the online and mainstream media. .

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits. Key Findings: The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online continues to be a significant source of giving and new donors. This is in line with the 2010 Online Giving Report.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Target Analytics donorCentrics Index of National Fundraising Performance for 2009 reported this trend. Fundraising Email Response Rate is 0.13% The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study reports this gem. Fundraising Email Response Rate is 0.13% The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study reports this gem. No sugar coating these trends.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Donors Flip Channels Dunham+Company has new data out in “A National Survey of the Impact of Offline Communication on Online Donations.&# 37% of respondents said that they respond using the charity’s website when they get a fundraising letter in the mail. 53% said they still respond to mail by using the mail.

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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 compared to the same time period in 2009. compared to 2009. This was led by 55.6% in December 2010.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

60) Search « Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools | Main | Strategies For Optimizing Your Nonprofits Website » Sunday Jun 28 2009 Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 07:44PM | by Allyson Kapin The struggling economy hit nonprofits hard in the first quarter of 2009.

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