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Free-for-Life Email Marketing Services Go to 25 Deserving Nonprofits
This year’s recipients of free email services include Children’s Healing Art Project in Portland, Oregon, Amputee Blade Runners in Nashville, Tennessee, and Freedom Home in Chisinau, Moldova. A complete list of Emma 25 honorees can be found at myemma.com/emma25/honorees.
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Lack of Communication Greatest Barrier to Donor Engagement
The gap is getting bigger, not smaller, between nonprofits who are quickly adopting technology and others who are falling behind. So says a report from GiveCentral Nonprofits that do not fear technology change and are ready to digitally evolve are gaining from the trend.
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Summer of Maps - Nonprofit Invitation
Nonprofits are invited to submit applications for the Summer of Maps hosted by Azavea. The awards include stipends of $5,000 for student GIS analysts that will analyze data for nonprofit organizations.
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Overall Charitable Giving to Nonprofits Remains Flat
Depending on how you look at it this is good news or bad news. Blackbaud's index of giving shows nonprofits received a 0.1% increase in giving in 2014 over 2013.
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A Whole New Way to Drive Greater Social Impact in Giving
The landscape of charitable giving is about to receive a makeover with the launch of Posiba, a big data and analytics information service supporting foundations, governments, charities and donors, using the power of aggregated information.
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Nonprofit, Mobile Fundraising & Social Media Predictions
Nonprofit leaders, mobile fundraising and social media experts weighed in on the future of mobile donations in 2015. Here are some of their predictions, experiences and successes from 2014.
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Overall Charitable Giving to Nonprofits Increase 0.2%
The Blackbaud Index reports that overall charitable giving has increased by 0.2% overall and online giving is up significantly by 10.6%. This is for the most recent 3 months ending in October 2014. The change is significant for a year to year comparison, and shows more activity than in 2013.
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Blackbaud Releases CRM 4.0
Blackbaud, Inc. announced the availability of Blackbaud CRM™ 4.0. The new release offers customers developments in the areas of usability, quality, performance and innovation.
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Himalayan Stove Project Matches Donations on #GivingTuesday
In an effort to get back to a more meaningful sense of the “holiday spirit” after the over-hyped Black Friday (November 28) and Cyber Monday (December 1) spending binges that follow Thanksgiving, more than 10,000 organizations will give consumers more bang for their donated and charitable bucks on #GivingTuesday,December 2, 2014.
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DAF Grants to Charities Exceeded $9.66 Billion
The 2014 Donor-Advised Fund Report, the most complete source for U.S. donor-advised funds (DAFs) statistics, found that grants from DAFs to qualified charities reached a record high of $9.66 billion in 2013, a 12.6 percent increase over 2012. Total DAF charitable assets grew nearly 20 percent to $53.74 billion according to the report, published annually by National Philanthropic Trust (NPT).
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