Blackbaud Index for March 2012

NTEN is back in San Francisco and the NTC conference is once again sold out. You can follow what’s happening on Twitter by searching for the #12NTC hash tag. If you can’t attend in person, then please check out NTC Online. It has lots of sessions available for viewing at a very affordable price. Once [...]

Blackbaud released its 2011 Online Giving report today. The report combines findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data to provide the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit organizations, online major giving data [...]

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that fundraising has returned to pre-recession levels. Through the first 11 months of 2011, overall giving is up 3.4% over 2010, and is now officially above the level of giving last seen in 2007. Most economists agree that is when the recession began. “Total U.S. charitable giving appears [...]

I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a donor. That means my inbox gets pretty flooded at the end of each year. Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. This time I [...]

Thanks to The Agitator for letting me have the last word in 2011. Tom Belford and Roger Craver’s daily e-newsletter and blog are the first thing that I read each day. I have a lot of respect for them and their expertise in the nonprofit sector. It’s an honor that they decided to pick a [...]

One of the most common questions that I get is how much money is raised through online giving. The answer leads into plenty more questions about who, what, when, when, and why online fundraising continues to grow. The good news is that we can now answer most of these questions. Here are some important questions, [...]

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in [...]

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in [...]

This is the sequel to the original 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics article. The first five got such a great response that it deserves an update. Here are five more good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. 1. Social Giving: The Power of Peer to Peer Fundraising Blackbaud and Mashable teamed up on an infographic that explores [...]