Judi Sohn

APRIL 15, 2013

Previously, I highlighted favorite features in Nonprofit Starter Pack , Click & Pledge , Causeview , Soapbox Engage and Conga Composer. Apsona is a tool for Salesforce data manipulation and visualization, similar in some respects to the much-loved DemandTools. Here’s why: It runs right within Salesforce.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this article, well outline a three-step process adapted from our report Finding Your Funding Strategy: Benchmarking 101 , tailored to U.S.-based Annual reports can provide valuable insights. It helps to analyze both the most recent years revenue mix and data from previous years. based nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kindful places a heavy focus on data, giving the user access to donors’ giving history, wealth details, and rating for likelihood to give. Individual pledge commitments or reports on pledged revenue by date, campaign, or program can be tracked easily. Raiser’s Edge is all about freeing up time for an organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Major crypto gifts haven’t slowed down, with multi-million dollar pledges happening in December and January so far. Tax deductions are still the number one incentive for people to donate, giving donors a clear tax incentive to disclose their data to nonprofits and the IRS. Myth 2: Cryptocurrencies aren’t regulated enough.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 17, 2021

So, CauseVox launched The 2021 CauseVox Pledge Now, Pay Later Study, which surveyed 400 North America-based individuals to uncover key insights in the drastic change in donor preferences. You’ll come away with all the data you need to adopt the latest fundraising trends to raise more in today’s climate.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Our app is designed to take the stress out of event logistics, offering an all-in-one solution that simplifies everything from check-ins to real-time reporting. Step 3: Streamline On-the-Spot Pledges and Donations Throughout the evening, there may be moments where you ask guests to make a pledge or contribute to a special appeal.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, social sector data has also been impacted. Staff working long hours responding to multiple crises have little time and energy for data collection and dissemination. This creates a data/crisis catch-22: While it’s important to have recent data when managing a crisis, it’s also harder to get. foundations.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . It takes more than two years to collect comprehensive data about U.S. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. foundations’ giving.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Around 500 of those total complaints were filed specifically about the FCC’s Keep Americans Connected Pledge , the agency’s primary response to the pandemic. The pledge was first announced in March and lasted 60 days. This includes creating a “dataset of geocoded information for all broadband service locations.”.

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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. Ensure data flows smoothly from your mobile fundraising platform to your donor database to track donor information and follow up after your campaign.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google’s new pledge comes as California, home to Google’s headquarters, continues to burn and choke on the smoke from blazes made more devastating by climate change. “We Google’s new commitment applies to the company’s electricity usage; the company will continue to offset emissions for things like employees’ travel, Reuters reports.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. Pledges are excluded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the last few weeks, there have been a few good research studies and web sites relaunched that cover technology, data, funding, and trends. Here’s a roundup. Foundation Center’s Glasspockets Site ReLaunches with A Wealth of Data About Foundation Transparency. Media Impact Funders New Site, Data Tool, and Reports.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2022

We have identified 208 pledges and grants for Ukraine relief. This includes 34 pledges worth $241,773,200 and 174 grants worth $343,561,933 as of March 8. Details about data on funding for Ukraine humanitarian relief. It should be noted that our real-time data collection currently relies heavily on sources written in English.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. The future speaks data—do you? Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

USD ( Blackbaud Luminate Online Report ). of overall fundraising in 2018 came from online giving ( Charitable Giving Report ). 1% via text message ( Global Trends in Giving Report ). However, 19% of donors return within the first 90 days ( The State of Modern Philanthropy Report ). 11% via direct mail/post.

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Social Media Stats Fundraising Media 279

Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. However, due to lags in reporting, that data is two years behind. funders contributed $266.2

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

In the wake of their deaths, individuals, communities, and organizations have shown solidarity with words, actions, and millions of dollars pledged to end anti-Asian discrimination, violence, and hate. Earlier AAPIP reports demonstrate that AAPI communities have received around 0.2 These experiences are all too common.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. The future speaks data—do you? Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. These professionals came to talk about standardizing the reporting process – about integrating social media results into the traditional reporting procedure. Do you need to raise $50,000 for a pledge drive? Report regularly and you will be rewarded.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Among Candid’s top evergreen priorities is to ensure we both have the best data possible for the sector and that we get it into the hands of all who can benefit. This is key to living up to our nonprofit mission to provide data as a sustainable public good that supports the entire sector’s success. Add real-time data.

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Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2021

and other countries around the world share data about their grantmaking with Candid. For one, the data tends to be of better quality than that which is available from public sources like 990 and 990PF forms. These are the rationales Candid offers up in making the case to funders for sharing their grants data.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

And for a capital campaign, data-driven decisions depend on you and me, the unsung data nerds operating quietly in the background. We work hard to transform basic input into high-quality data. An audit query can be as simple as looking for data entry errors, like a recent cash gift with a gift date of two years later.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. Donors can pledge as little as $.01

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2023

Recently we interviewed Abdul Dosunmu, campaign manager for the Donors of Color Network’s (DOCN) Climate Funders Justice Pledge , one of the intermediaries featured in the guide. In this video, Dosunmu shares how funding data reveals whether or not climate philanthropy lives up to these values.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 11, 2021

Nonprofit financial reporting is the responsibility of the finance team. But in a fundraising organization, Finance is heavily dependent on Development systems to furnish accurate, unambiguous fundraising data to the general ledger, so that correct annual and monthly financial reporting can be produced. It’s All in the Details.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Giant retailers, including Amazon and Ikea, have pledged to go green, but their shipping is still pretty dirty. Now shoppers can now see how much pollution some of the biggest retail companies in the US each generate while bringing goods into the country, thanks to a new report. million American homes do in a year.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

ICE is known to use facial recognition technology; last month, The Washington Post reported the agency, along with the FBI, had accessed state drivers’ license databases — a veritable facial recognition gold mine, as the Post termed it — but without the knowledge or consent of drivers.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We focused on two main goals in making this expanded data and information on Candid’s racial equity page freely available. In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. .

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. The largest pledged gift in 2010 was $250 million worth of art and furniture from George M. and Linda H. It’s well worth the $75 cost.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Have you ever had your board members scratch their collective heads when the development and finance teams report their results? These 10 standards become a framework for tracking and reporting on your financial data. Do your development partners count conditional pledges?

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Results Nonprofit Pledge Gift 101

Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

But I have to admit, I’m not a fan of the Foundation’s Batch Data Entry tool. It’s not just uploading Opportunity records via the Data Loader or DemandTools. You have to make sure those gifts aren’t already attached to pledges. It’s all about manipulating data.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

For example, we want to document that he is a legacy giver, and we’d love to enter the amount as a pledge. Today, the portion of organizations showing the estimated dollar value of bequest intentions on internal management reports may be approaching 50%. How do you ask questions like that? Is this something nonprofits do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

As it’s a synagogue, I’ve also built out additional functionality around Yahrtzeits (memorials), High Holiday pledges, High Holiday ticketing, Membership and Hebrew School enrollment. I’m in it constantly to record gifts, run reports, analyze giving history, etc. How to run reports. That’s easy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors worldwide give tribute gifts.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

It also pledged to stop using single-use plastics in its packaging by 2025. One of the big-ticket items that will be recycled in-house are the servers used in Microsoft’s data centers. million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019 , according to a report released in July. People tossed out a record 53.6

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