The NonProfit Times

MAY 29, 2024

vice president, research, at CEP, told The NonProfit Times. and Emily Yang on the research team. It remains to be seen whether this change represents a longer-term trend, according to the authors. “It It does beg the question what is the trend for next year, fiscal trailing indicators,” said Smith Arrillaga.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. But there has been little research on private philanthropic support of these institutions. This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Research in this area has shown that 55% of Americans are motivated to give out of a sense of religious commitment and that 73% of American giving goes to religious organizations, whether they are houses of worship or religiously identified organizations. American Muslim Giving Trends. The Five Pillars of Islam. Click to Tweet.

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Giving United States Fundraising New Zealand 246

Candid

AUGUST 26, 2024

Every day, social sector organizations publish reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more to share the knowledge they’ve gained through the work they do. Views on Offshore Wind in New England by the Barr Foundation and Hart Research. National Study on Donor Advised Funds by the DAF Research Collaborative (DAFRC).

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. Digital Trends. He went through some recent trends with social networking use. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 117

M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). But, our 2024 Benchmarks study also shows some clear opportunities for food banks.

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Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

In my graduate work in Philanthropic Studies and Nonprofit Management at IUPUI, we often discuss demands by today’s funders and donors for nonprofit accountability, transparency, performance, and return on investment. The research, evaluation, and data needed to satisfy funders about these issues can easily overwhelm an underfunded nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. From these questions, our national study, How Strong is Your Social Net? was created.

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Social Media Arts Studies National 112

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. Our research on household giving in Arizona in 2008 reports a total of $3.05

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Research Arizona Philanthropy Indiana 75

OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

When broken down by budget-size, the trends show impressive growth across the board: Medium-sized nonprofits with budgets of $1M – $10M were the largest growth leaders, notching a 25% year-over-year increase in their online giving revenue. In a 2019 survey, the Pew Research Center reports that 69% of U.S.

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Donor Online Policy Retention 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 135-page report is organized by five key consumer trends that will influence giving, summarizes a lot of key data, research and trends. . Women are at the forefront of the AI debate, making up 57 percent of the workforce expected to be displaced by automation, according to the World Economic Forum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. In isolation, the cuts may seem small,” says Stapel, “but over time, they speak to a larger, more serious trend that will have an impact on the health, happiness, and safety of our communities.”. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

While full data sets are made available and used extensively by researchers and city governments, City Health Dashboard has learned that simply providing data isn’t enough. These stories provide another level of meaning to the data, showing not only how conclusions can be drawn from the data, but how data-driven policies have an impact.

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Story Data Storytelling Lesson 69

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. According to HubSpot Research , Linked Pages that have 100 followers or more earn a median of two clicks on the first two posts that a nonprofit shares on LinkedIn per week.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Blackbaud’s research, however, shows the average time from the first solicitation to a donor’s first gift is four years, yet the average development officer’s term is only 18–24 months. Another way to establish consistency is to standardize processes and policies regardless of the team manager. Be mindful of job hoppers.

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Develop Management Gift Proposal 83

Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

While studies show that workers with bachelor’s degrees have higher lifetime earnings and lower poverty rates than those without, technology has changed the workforce. provides federal incentives and policy support to encourage workforce development. Expand online education, corporate partnerships, and research collaborations.

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Education Student Award University 87

sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Also in 2023, McKinsey & Company published research indicating that nearly one-third of K–12 professionals surveyed in the U.S. When faculty intention-to-quit studies like those above highlight burnout, anxiety, and depression as causal factors, it’s time to take action. were considering leaving their jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon. ” Scoble did not discuss the privacy implications when there is a human at the other end of this aggregated data and what the ethics policies should be. Books Research Studies'

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Cisco Impact America Government 137

The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Research backs this up. Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago. Best practices of what makes for an effective email continue to evolve.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). However, the studies in measuring intrinsic impact were intended for “internal assessment and critical reflection purposes” (Brown & Novak, 2013). Cultural Trends Vol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

What are some examples of technology and nonprofit case studies that supports health, fitness, and wellness in the nonprofit workplace? According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 122

Achieve

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the past year we have witnessed not only a change in administration and therefore policy, but there too has been a shift in the ways in which individuals engage in social issues and causes—many of which have been impacted by the new administration and associated policies. Will policy be created to support this movement?

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North Carolina Voice Policy University 52

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Dunham+Company and Next After joined forces to study several NPOs’ online fundraising processes. To see the how NPOs scored overall and view the results of this study, you can download the online fundraising scorecard. The study showed that most nonprofits aren’t emailing their constituents enough. Want just the highlights?

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Online Fundraising Nonprofit Studies 63

Candid

MAY 5, 2021

Studies have found that diverse teams are twice as fast at making decisions and those decisions are better than those made by non-inclusive teams 87 percent of the time. Unfortunately, research continues to show that even organizations that state they are committed to diverse hiring still often fail to do so. Better business practices.

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Strategy Nonprofit Skills Environment 103

Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

From improvements in user experience, to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. There are many things that we need to account for when planning a redesign. This framework is known as digital governance.

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Websites Change Management Digital Government 61

Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

If you really study what they do, it looks like they’re repeating themselves a lot. The first area is research. You need to be able to decipher the trends and decide if they’re for you or not for you. I didn’t know that until I had to research it, manage it, measure it. That’s what the really big organizations do!

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Social Media Media Tips Social 138

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. Thankfully, you can take advantage of great in-depth research and findings published in nonprofit reports.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. You can download the complete report for free here.] for free. >

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations. Social media these days is more and more useful for doing research on funders. It provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy. Just for Libraries.

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America Fund Resource Library 56

Care2

MAY 8, 2009

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) Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree.

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Social Media Studies Facebook Raise 41

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

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) I hope the data is useful to everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. According to this Mashable study , Pinterest actually drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit combined. How much effort are your social media channels really worth? By Sacha Evans. And you shouldn’t be either.

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Social Media Channel Difference Media 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The opening keynote by Hallie Preskill, Managing Director, FSG talked about the trends setting the stage for new evaluation methods, but also cautioned that these methods would not replace traditional methods. I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

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) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Benchmark Studies Social Media NTEN 28