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Internet & Politics — 2006 Vintage
Burst Media reports that four in ten netizens have visited a candidate's website this election season, and one-third visited the site of an advocacy group. Interestingly, about 65% visited the sites of groups they knew they didn't support, or thought they might not support. Open-minded? Looking for dirt? And what do they see when they […]
Slipping Down The Ladder Of Life
For years, political prognosticators have pointed to one measure as the best single indicator of how national elections might go … responses to the question: “Overall, do you think the country is headed in the right direction?” If you're an incumbent, and the trend is rising “No's” to this question, watch out! Perhaps a comparable […]
Weekend Quiz #6 – Confidence in Charities
NYU's Wagner School of Public Service has released a new survey of public confidence in charitable organizations. Read it and you'll be able to ace this quiz. Overall, is public confidence in charities up, or down? Which problem is bigger: charities have the wrong priorities, or charities have difficulty spending money wisely? The number of […]
Network for Good – Online Fundraising
Thanks to Beth Kanter at Blogher.com for noting a study of Network for Good's online fundraising experience. This study is based on analysis of $24.5 million in charitable giving online through Network for Good in response to three major crises: the December 2004 tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the Pakistan earthquake of October […]
Donor Loyalty — the Holy Grail
Face it. Nothing sends more shivers up the line from Membership Director to CEO to Renewal mailing #1 isn't performing as well as last year!” Prospecting returns ebb and flow. We sigh. But nobody can tolerate an underperforming renewal series. We panic. Wouldn't we all enjoy donor retention rates marred only by death! Wouldn't we […]
2005 Online Giving Up 148% Over 2004 Level
Nicole Wallace in this week’s edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that online gifts to 162 organizations increased by a whopping 148.1% over 2004’s level. That’s $908.4 million in 2005 compared to $366.1 the year before. This year’s Chronicle survey, the paper’s 7th, reveals that the increase is not all due to the southeast […]
Is Rising Number of Cell Phones Lowering Reliability of Polls?
A recent study by the Pew Research Center finds that cell-only Americans – an estimated 7%-9% of the general public – are significantly different in many ways from those reachable on a landline. They are younger, less affluent, less likely to be married or to own their home, and more liberal on many political questions. […]
Amnesty Scores with Online Acquisition
Some interesting online acquisition data from Amnesty International, as reported by Nick Allen of Donor Digital. His example confirms what we've seen elsewhere … significantly higher average gifts from online donors can more than offset higher acquisition costs. And notice the admirable extent of testing in this campaign. If you want to dig deeper into […]