sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. sectional studies.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 3, 2023

End of year giving trends Giving Tuesday vs December 31 Maximizing both Giving Tuesday and Decemeber 31 End of year giving trends Giving has been declining since 2022, so year-end fundraising can be a great opportunity to raise more for your organization and hopefully recover some lapsed donors! billion for nonprofits alone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

GrantStation polls organizations on the status of their grantseeking in order to provide the nonprofit sector with a vivid, up-to-date snapshot of grantseeking today, and you can help the grantseeking community stay on top of trends through your participation. You can click here to see past reports.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research. When we look at the YOY data above, we see quite a bit of variance in this ratio over the three years, and no distinguishible pattern (trend).

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Technology Report Ratio Nonprofit 85

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Industry benchmarks and comparisons: Consider the larger trends at play that impact your results.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2012

There are a ton of smart people writing about nonprofit technology and communications to help nonprofit communicators keep up on the latest online trends and developments. The guide includes a comparison of 29 different systems and offers detailed reviews of 10 of the most popular.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. This follows the broader trend we see in the e-commerce world: you might also remember that promos started so early that Black Friday seemed more like Black Friday Month. . And boy, were there some outliers this year. On to the goods! .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This year’s summit included 35 large nonprofit organizations that participate in our sustainer program benchmarking to review aggregate program performance, trends and challenges affecting sustainer giving. Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. After such a tumultuous year, with many drivers for both potential increases and declines in giving, it was no surprise to see mixed trends among sectors and organizational sizes.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog we take a technical deep dive into the cost and performance of their serverless SQL warehouse product by utilizing the industry standard TPC-DI benchmark. In the table above, we look at the cost comparison of on-demand vs. spot costs as well. What are Databricks’ SQL warehouse offerings? AWS EC2 bill). Image by author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. Why is this important?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Due to the generality of RL, the prevalent trend in RL research is to develop agents that can efficiently learn tabula rasa , that is, from scratch without using previously learned knowledge about the problem. For benchmark evaluation, we report the interquartile mean (IQM) metric from the RLiable library.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 10, 2025

We first show Method 1: time-horizon-extension , a relatively simple model which forecasts when SC will arrive by extending the trend established by METRs report of AIs accomplishing tasks that take humans increasing amounts of time. We heavily draw from METRs recent report which catalogues a trend of increasing time horizon (pictured below).

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Monitor Trends Check metrics regularly to spot trends and changes over time. Look at week-over-week and month-over-month comparisons. Monitor social media conversations related to your cause to identify trending topics and opportunities for content creation. Review reports regularly to spot trends.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology. Research Questions.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Performance comparison between the PaLM 540B parameter model and the prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 58 tasks from the Big-bench suite. One trend that started with our work on Vision Transformers in 2020 is to use the Transformer architecture in computer vision models rather than convolutional neural networks. See paper for details.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. Technorati ???Authority???

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DataRobot

JUNE 24, 2022

That traditional approach normally included analyzing how real estate property assets performed in the past but also often looking for market trends. Traditional analytical approaches and data sources hamper the decision-making process to draw clear assumptions on market trends and develop robust and comprehensive business cases.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We decided to develop a shared definition is for benchmarking only. We have conducted grantee profile analyses as well as cross-sectional comparisons by geography and issue area. Our first task was to develop a shared definition for “people of color-led and people of color-serving” organizations.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They are particularly effective in identifying trends, highlighting winners and losers, and visualizing shifts in position. Polar Areas charts are particularly effective for showcasing relationships and proportions among multiple variables in a format emphasizing comparisons and trends.

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TechNode

JANUARY 18, 2024

Although I have seen too much news about car manufacturing, it is difficult for me to believe whether this young car company can produce cars as its pricing is benchmarked against Tesla, and its primary target market is also North America. If you were to recommend one significant industry trend for everyone to follow, what would it be?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Another benchmark to consider when making applications is organizational age. Organizational collaboration may be another way to increase grantseeking success; it is a trending topic and is encouraged by many funders. In comparison, in the fall 2016 report, the entry point was $1 million.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The main dashboard shows your net worth; your four most recent transactions; a month-over-month spending comparison; income month-to-date; upcoming bills; an investments snapshot; a list of any goals youve set; and, finally, a link to your month-in-review. Most of these features should arrive in the new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. Above all you must pick the right metrics to measure what your doing and look for trends that can tell you what works and what doesn't. Benchmark studies. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Task Analysis.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Interpretability benchmarks: Wed like to support more benchmarks for interpretability research. A benchmark should consist of a set of tasks that good interpretability methods should be able to solve. Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark by Pan et al. by Liu et al.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2020

Benchmarking d ata, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 16 million donors who gave 56 million gifts for a total of $2.3 This year’s summit included staff from 33 large, primarily direct marketing focused nonprofit organizations representing a variety of sectors.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Consultant Social Media Advocacy Myspace 31

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? The silver lining of what (at first glance) seems like a very negative trend is that nonprofits have lots of room to make a positive impression on new donors. 7 min read Read Now 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. Having specialists in-house means we’re always monitoring trends and looking for opportunities. Please tell us if you know of one! UNICEF has a history of innovation.

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Studies 129

TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

It’s a worthwhile endeavor, as benchmarking funds and investors by deal count allows all participants in the ecosystem to transact more efficiently based upon their priorities. All this makes the number less meaningful than it appears to be at first glance, and ineffective for comparison on a gender level.

Data 89

Data Trend Aggregator Statistics 89

Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

For over a decade, our annual Advancing Human Rights research has mapped trends in funding for human rights, breaking down funding into three major categories: issues, strategies, and populations. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. What are the trends on all of the above? Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Here’s what a spokesperson told me: “Utility Bidder [is] a price comparison site for energy and utility rates, so they have a focus on business finances as well as energy as a whole.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

A first look at the next trend in gaming laptops I had hoped that MSI’s GS66 Stealth for 2021 would look and feel a little different than last year’s model — not that the 2020 version was particularly busted in any major way. Horizon: Zero Dawn performed favorably at QHD resolution with the GS66 Stealth. I found other flaws with the design.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

These organizations participate in a donorCentrics Internet Benchmarking Group. By comparison, only 29% of online only donors were 65 or older while 58% of offline only donors are represented in these age brackets. This tends to skew income comparisons with older donors across giving channels. million donors.

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