Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using data from The Blackbaud Index , we are able to provide the first insights into fundraising trends for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013. The Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report provides insights into fundraising trends on an annual basis. Overall Giving Trends. Online Giving Trends.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector. It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The 2013 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing more than $12.5 It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector. in 2013, while online giving grew 13.5%. of all charitable giving in 2013. Key Findings.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The latest 2013 Charitable Giving Report by Blackbaud analyzed data from more than 4,000 nonprofits to provide the largest analysis in online giving data. in 2013 compared to 2012. of all charitable giving in 2013. of all charitable giving in 2013. of 2013''s overall gifts. This just in! increase from 2012.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The latest Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits analyzed data from more than 4,000 nonprofits to provide the largest analysis in online giving data. in 2013 compared to 2012 (You can take a look at the review I did of their 2012 study). of all charitable giving in 2013. of 2013''s overall gifts.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The industry report identifies the trends (see the Blackbaud Index ) which are used to inform the health of your online program, not overall constituent engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click! On the grantmaker side, it allows you to do a systems analysis to see how your funding investment fits into the sector.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: It’s here: The 2013 Charitable Giving Report. It’s the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector and includes perspectives from across the industry. If 2013 was the year of the blog, 2014 is the year of the nonprofit blog.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Last week I published the 112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss , that compiled some of the wisest words and insights from across the industry this year. . npEngage’s Top 20 Posts from 2013. The result: Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2013

GivingTuesday Trends. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012. million in online donations on #GivingTuesday 2013. The average online gift on #GivingTuesday 2013 was $142.05, which was significantly up from $101.60 through October 2013 and online giving is up 11.8%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NMC’s annual reports that highlight emerging technologies and their impact on the education sector over the next five years include NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition and were published this spring. This report is not just your father’s PDF file!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2013

GivingTuesday Trends. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012. million in online donations on #GivingTuesday 2013. The average online gift on #GivingTuesday 2013 was $142.05, which was significantly up from $101.60 through October 2013 and online giving is up 11.8% This was up from the $10.1

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The starvation cycle is a phenomenon that has been described as a debilitating trend of under investment in organizational infrastructure, fed by potentially misleading financial reporting and donor expectations of increasingly low overhead expenses” (Lecy & Searing 2015). Sources: -Boyd, N.M., & & Gessner, B. Gallagher, M., &

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. The group also mentioned an example in Europe where a neighborhood council was cross referencing social media data with location to find out what topics were trending in those neighborhoods as part of a planning process. Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said. .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. It's importance can't be debated.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector. Overall Giving Trends. compared to the same time period in 2013. Online Giving Trends. Online Giving Trends. in 2014 compared to 2013. year-over-year growth in 2013. on a year-over-year basis.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. I analyzed 320 email messages sent to me from 55 nonprofit organizations between December 1st and 31st, 2013. Here are some insights, trends, and the complete list of email subject lines. Email by Date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

The survey was reviewed by several social media and research experts then released to the public January 29, 2013. At last month’s Social Media Week Washington, DC 2013 , the SM4GH leadership team presented Benchmarking: Stop Comparing Apples to Potatoes.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We went into full analysis mode – we looked at everything. Are you noticing a trend here? So far 2013 has been an up and down for my champion Ravens and their bye week has come at the perfect time. Reflect on your performance in 2013. This was actually and is still one of my favorite activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! Charity Digital News recently announced a new smartphone game, Play to Cure: Genes in Space , which is fun game that also helps cancer scientists with analysis of variations in gene data. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. and Android.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The goal of this session was to provide the data but also provide analysis and insight that would help organizations take action when needed. This trend is because orgs are now able to market for online purchases and eliminate or minimize transaction fees. Why benchmark? So what data was discussed? Membership Data. Online Transactions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up?

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2013

NTEN and M&R also released their report, the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The reports alone does not tell us if a program is successful, but identify the trends which are used to inform the health of our online program relative to peers and ensure our approach is on the path toward success. Well, we’d hope all of them.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

This isn’t surprising when you consider the recent historical trends in funding for these organizations, which have increased continuously—with a notable dip in 2013 and a peak of $49 million in 2017. We then reviewed the largest 1,000 organizations by revenue size and verified them for accuracy for this analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

It was designed and built on the notion of data collection and analysis. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. million messages lets them do predictive analysis. They built the crisis text line to be data driven. The first hire was a Data Scientist and CTO. It’s Monday.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. In other words, it's the "bring-your-own-device" trend in which employees and volunteers supply their own computing devices.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

For several years now, January 1st not only means the beginning of the New Year, but also an opportunity to look at trends in year-end fundraising emails from nonprofit organizations. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Here are some insights, trends, and the complete list of email subject lines.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. Here are some insights, trends, and the complete list of email subject lines. That was a significant increase from 2013 and nearly as many emails that I received on December 31st. That was slightly down from 2013. Subject Line Analysis. Email by Date.

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