Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced that it has hired Richard Becker as president of Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company offering solutions for donor acquisition, prospect research, benchmarking, custom modeling, and data enrichment to more than 6,000 nonprofits. Target Analytics is the only company that provides a comprehensive solution which helps nonprofits replenish their donor pool, identify best prospects, provide peer-to-peer comparisons, and ensure a nonprofit's information is as accurate as possible.

Sage North America has announced that a student edition for its Sage Fund Accounting nonprofit financial management software is shipping with a new textbook, titled Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting Concepts and Practices (5^th Edition). Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the textbook is currently being used or evaluated by dozens of U.S. colleges and universities, including Regis University in Denver, Colo.; the University of Houston in Houston, Texas; the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.; and The University of Texas at Austin (Texas). Read more...

The mGive Foundation (www.mgive.org), the leading 501(c)(3) public charity supporting U.S. mobile donation campaigns, today announced it has partnered with GetLisa Information Services to provide regional-area wireless subscribers with the capability to participate in mobile giving campaigns - a first in the regional wireless industry. Read more...

The potential of mobile giving, which helped raise more than $41 million for Haiti disaster relief, will be examined with a new study by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, along with The mGive Foundation and the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.