Later today I'll be hosting a webinar called "The State of Online Fundraising" as part of NTEN member appreciation month. It's free to NTEN members and Blackbaud customers. My presentation is full of lots of information, metrics, benchmarks, and more. Below are some of the reports,...

November is NTEN member appreciation month and they are having several free webinars for members. I am fortunate enough to get to host a session called "The State of Online Fundraising" on Wednesday, November 4th from 2pm to 3:30pm EDT / 11:00am to 12:30pm PDT. The State of Online Fundraising...

The year is rapidly coming to a close and we have more information about online giving trends for the third quarter of 2009 from Blackbaud clients. This is part of a series of published insights from all of 2008 , Q1 2009 , and Q2 2009 . This information comes from approximately 2,200 nonprofit organizations...

The September 2009 edition of the NTEN Connect e-newsletter is out and it's all about raising money online. It contains an article that I wrote called "The State of Online Fundraising" that recaps trends, research, and other useful information about online giving. My recommended next steps...

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) recently released a report called "Click Here to Donate: Results of the CASE 2009 Survey of Online Fundraising." The report was prepared by Dr. Chris Thompson, former CASE Senior Research Director, and respected nonprofit consultant...

Jakob Nielsen is considered the leading expert on website usability in the world. His firm, the Nielsen Norman Group , does a variety of studies and reports every year in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Jakob's useit.com website regularly reviews and discusses trends in usability. Back...

When in doubt — test it. Yes, there are some very well established best practices for online fundraising, but testing always helps you improve your own performance.This is especially true when you are trying something new or outside the norm. Over the years I've gotten countless questions about how...

I'm excited that BBNC 6.10 has released this week. It went up on our website on Wednesday. It has some superb new features and functions. I've already spoken about the changes we've made around Gift Aid in 6.10 which should free up some much needed processing time for the UK end users. If...

This is day three of NetWits Summer Camp and the focus is all about online fundraising. After today we'll be halfway through Blackbaud's five-day series of web seminars. Be sure to check out the NetWits Think Tank blog or the Blackbaud Internet Resources page to get more online wit and wisdom...

So it's the middle of a recession right? doom, gloom, despair...etc...etc..etc...So here is some good news - People gave more last year than the previous year and the trend seems to be going up...not a little more but 18% more. That's a reasonable figure. This is according to the UK cards association...