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. Those are the months that organizations push their year-end giving, host challenges, and release their annual reports. This just in! increase in online giving.

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Benchmark Studies Online Donation 73

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

You can use that benchmark to determine how well your ad copy is performing. Equipped with built-in templates and best practices, nonprofits can fundraise, host events, strengthen donor relationships, and measure performance in one easy-to-use platform. If it’s well under 4%, you may want to tweak your ad copy!

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Campaign Evaluation Grant Google 309

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

In the past few years, a host of companies have started to turn what has long been seen as a pipe dream into a real possibility. But what about refueling, repairing, or even adding capabilities to spacecraft or satellites once they’re up there?

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Benchmark System Team Demonstration 71

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

In truth, it is difficult to host a successful Twitter Chat if your nonprofit does not have a large, engaged following on Twitter. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. 7) Join a Twitter Chats. If possible, join a Twitter Chat once a month, bi-monthly, or quarterly.

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Twitter Practice Nonprofit Social Media 362

NTEN

APRIL 23, 2010

We've recently released the 2009 IT Staffing and Spending Report and the 2010 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report (in conjunction with Common Knowledge & thePort). Next up: the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study we're releasing with M+R Strategic Services. Tags: benchmarks NPTech NTEN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000. Even if you’re not able to host an event for your public campaign launch, find other ways to boost anticipation and excitement. Finally, I hosted weekly fundraising office hours for anyone who wanted to learn more about best practices for fundraising.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Set performance benchmarks (e.g., Host a “24-Hour Giving Blitz,” for example, where each donation unlocks a surprise or milestone. Not only does this create a new revenue stream, but it also adds a layer of financial independence to your organization and has the potential to scale by selling one to many.

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Professional Fund Model Build 98

TechSpot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

PassMark Software has been developing well-regarded PC benchmarking and diagnostic tools since 1998. The company's website hosts a page that compiles performance scores submitted by users, and right now, the CPU scores are trending downward. Read Entire Article

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Benchmark Trend Hosting Websites 89

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

The accepted best practice is to post to Instagram once to three times daily, but for most nonprofits posting more than once daily is a ridiculous benchmark. For example, Human Rights First : Even better, however, is to create your own link in bio landing page hosted on your website, such as conservation.org/link-in-bio.

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Practice Nonprofit Social Media Facebook 363

NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. To help folks get started, we hosted a release party. Get the recording to see how Children's Defense Fund and HRC use benchmarks to increase the performance of their online campaigns. What are you struggling with?

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Benchmark Studies Advocacy Social Media 50

TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

We’re booked for months, and I’m delighted to host the upcoming guests. Join us for our first episode with Benchmark and Cambly taking place on February 1, 2023 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Our first guests are Sameer Shariff , CEO and co-founder of Cambly, and Sarah Tavel , a long-time investor at Benchmark and previously Greylock.

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Profit Raise Benchmark Question 98

M+R

MAY 31, 2023

Here’s where you can find M+R people this summer: PMDMC Benchmarks Webinar June 7, 1–2pm ET Thought Benchmarks season was over? Get the low-down on how the public media sector fared in this year’s Benchmarks in this virtual webinar co-hosted with PMDMC. Let us know so we can say hello!

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Business Chicago Atlanta Benchmark 105

NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

I just returned from speaking at the MyCharityConnects Conference, a social media and online fundraising conference hosted by CanadaHelps in Toronto. Marketing Sherpa’s 2011 Email Benchmark Report found sending emails based on behavior was one of the most effective ways to improve the relevancy of your emails. Have a new donor?

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email Social Media Conference Test 150

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This Member round up features mergers and lots of great new tools to help you with everything from storytelling to benchmarking and finding local Jewish holiday celebrations. platform is a cloud-hosted solution for the gathering, curation, and use of stories to affect change.

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Storytelling Tools Benchmark NTEN 64

NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. The conference was amazing! One Killer Find, More Roundups and Visual Notes.

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Technology Nonprofit NTEN Social Media 245

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Hosting a High-Impact Nonprofit Giving Day Imagine a single day where your nonprofit’s community comes alive with generosity, passion, and unwavering support—all converging to make a significant impact on your mission. This is the power of a high-impact Giving Day.

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Hosting Impact Giving Nonprofit 52

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study found that December giving accounts for 26% of all online revenue for nonprofits, with the final week alone contributing 13% of total online donations. Host a year-end event. As the year winds down, nows the time to reflect on the past year, thank supporters, and set the stage for a successful new year.

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Volunteer Charity Donor Reflection 52

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. The event will reveal the results of the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , which: Provides updated industry-wide metrics to analyze your online program.

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Benchmark Studies Results DC 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

My first reaction was – what does that stupid number mean? The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Checking in at a place.

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Metrics Facebook People Measure 114

The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million benchmark was as of January 2nd, 2021, which means it doesn’t factor in possible boosts in subscribers that Disney may have received from the debut of its first Marvel Studios TV series, WandaVision , which was released on January 15th. Notably, that 94.9 While the company beat expectations, with total revenue of $16.25

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Goal New Zealand Stream Indonesia 137

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to the M+R Benchmarks report , fundraising mobile messages generate an average of $92 in revenue for every 1,000 messages sent. Whether youre hosting a live social media event or a text-to-give campaign, the steps for getting started with mobile giving remain essentially the same. How does mobile giving work?

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Mobile Giving Guide Nonprofit 105

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Blackbaud hosted its annual conference for nonprofits from September 29 through October 1 in National Harbor, MD. It’s easy to host a benchmarking session and just present data. Why benchmark? Jay Odell, Vice President of Altru at Blackbaud, discussed why benchmarking data is important. Are you using benchmarks?

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Benchmark Data Arts Blackbaud 35

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. Then Google and Benchmark pumped $258 million more into it this past August.

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Build San Francisco New York City Design 168

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

So, armed with a grip of questions and a recorder, we talked through a host of topics, from current startup benchmarks to the durability of today’s startups and changes to the overall startup hit rate. Our chat with Murphy was wide-ranging.

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Marketing Newsletter Raise Benchmark 98

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The o1 model rose quickly to the top of the rankings in common benchmark tests, and soon Google DeepMind , Anthropic , DeepSeek and others were training their models for real-time reasoning. The model generates PhD-level answers to complex questions, landing it on top of performance benchmark rankings.

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Companies Model Training Train 110

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Since shifting to the virtual event space, event planners have had to come up with creative ways to continue hosting profitable events. Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . But there is hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. I’m also an ambassador for GivingTuesday.

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Campaign Template Foundation Donor 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

There’s an important listening aspect that helps you hear what people are saying about you online, and there’s a second aspect that includes hosting conversations. Measurable : You should be able to quantify goals with a numeric benchmark. Social media often has two aspects. Remember the social aspect of social media, however.

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Social Media Guide Media Social 100

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a data management webinar with Debbie Snyder , VP of Sales & Marketing for Adcieo. QUESTION: NTEN just held an online fundraising benchmark webinar, where they talked about email open rates being low, and organizations raising something like $17 for every 1000 emails sent.

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Management Data Nonprofit Donor 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. In advance of convening on Social Media Metrics hosted by RWJF, there will be a Twitter chat on Thursday, April 18, 3-4 p.m.

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Measure Learning Social Media Metrics 105

Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2013

The Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council is hosting it’s annual Run Walk Ride …

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Fundraising Benchmark Hosting Team 49

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It turned buying software from an infrequent, high-cost and, for many companies, time-consuming process into a hosted, monthly and predictable cost-per-seat subscription service. And how do you use it to grow when old-school SaaS benchmarks, milestones and metrics used to demonstrate a proven strategy aren’t as useful?

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Strategy Metrics API Benchmark 81

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Benchmark led the investment with help from 8VC, Accel, SV Angel, Y Combinator and multiple tech industry luminaries. The long-term plan is to build a hosted version, which they will charge for, while continuing to work on the open source project. million seed round. The company has raised over $31 million, all of it coming this year.

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Open Source Open Platform Data 70

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Those are the months that organizations push their year-end giving, host challenges, and release their annual reports. Marketing Research Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Online Fundraising Trends' You may not be surprised to find out that the most overall giving occurs during the last three months of the year.

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Online Donation Giving Report 77

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. One of the things we wished for as we navigated the campaign: benchmarks. We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way.

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Web Indiana NTEN Case Study 117

TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Study up on churn rate basics to set customer and revenue benchmarks. Jain explains the differences between customer and revenue churn, shares formulas for calculating benchmarks, and answers the question: “What is a good monthly churn rate?” ” Study up on churn rate basics to set customer and revenue benchmarks.

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Rate Fundraising Law Benchmark 88

Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2014

Since August 2012, TechSoup for Libraries has been interviewing librarians , hosting webinars , and writing blogs about the Edge benchmarks and the libraries that have benefited from it.

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Library Philadelphia Tech Benchmark 67