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Latest Blackbaud Giving Index

Here are the latest online and overall giving growth rates as measured by Blackbaud. The online giving rate, comparing the three months ending May 2012 to the same three month period in 2011, is up 6.9%. The data represents actual returns for 1,792 nonprofits representing $425 million in annual online giving. Growth was greatest, 12.9%, […]

Learn More July 6, 2012

Motivating Online Sign-ups

Nonprofits should always be looking for ways to convert anonymous website visitors into future volunteers, activists, and fundraising prospects. Enticing them to sign-up for an e-newsletter is a good tactic, and it’s worth spending some serious effort figuring out ways to become more proficient at getting that response. Here, courtesy of Which Test Won, is […]

Learn More July 5, 2012

Images For Every Nonprofit

From Inspiring Generosity, it’s all about images … “Some nonprofits find it challenging at times to represent the work they do in photos, rather than text. But photos are one of the most shared content on social media, so it’s become important for causes to adapt and show more images in order to bring about […]

Learn More July 3, 2012

Youth And Online Politics

Here’s a good Independence Day read for our American Agitators in particular, but for all who want more insight into how online tools are re-shaping political participation amongst youth (15-25 year-olds) … Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action, funded by an arm of the MacArthur Foundation. ‘Participatory politics’ is defined as: “interactive, peer-based […]

Learn More July 2, 2012

Who’s A Young Donor?

Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now just wrote a post, Don’t get too excited by survey on Millennial giving. He’s warning against hyperventilating over a recent report, Millenial Impact Report, based on the survey research that Jeff loves to hate (as opposed to hard data), that enthuses over giving by the age 20-35 set. He […]

Learn More June 29, 2012

Fundraising And ‘HENRYs’

‘HENRY’ stands for Higher Earning, Not Rich Yet. These are folks earning $100-$250k, although this includes a lot of two-income households. I used to be one; however, now I’m neither higher earning nor rich … nor likely to be. Disqualified. But I digress. This article, The Return of the Newly Affluent, describes some of the […]

Learn More June 28, 2012