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PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Net to the Rescue How critical has the Internet become in helping people make key decisions?  |
AFP eWire April 17, 2006 |
Giving Money, Not Time, Preferred Method of Giving American adults are more likely to donate money than time to causes they support, according to a national survey. These findings represent a reversal from a 2005 study.  |
| AFP eWire |
Many Charities Behind on Their Fundraising This Holiday Season, but Still Optimistic Less than half of charities across North America are raising more money during the 2007 holiday giving season than they did last year.  |
AFP eWire October 27, 2008 |
Survey Finds Large Majority Tightening Wallets, Reducing Gifts More than 80 percent of respondents to a recent survey indicate they have become more concerned about their finances, leading half to either reduce their giving or stop giving altogether.  |
AFP eWire December 12, 2005 |
Nearly One in Five U.S. Internet Users Have Contributed Online More than 26 million Americans have now made a charitable gift online, according to the most recent survey.  |
AFP eWire November 12, 2007 |
Giving Environment Strong, Steady While Online Success Grows The giving environment remains very positive, with significant growth in online fundraising, as charities enter the critical end-of-year giving season. Here are some stats.  |
| AskMen.com |
Computers Are So '00s Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.  |
AFP eWire December 19, 2008 |
Charity Fundraising Efforts Lagging Significantly This Holiday Season More than half of charities across North America are raising less money during the 2008 holiday giving season (October through December) than they did last year, according to a survey conducted by AFP.  |
InternetNews October 30, 2006 David Needle |
Search Engines Power Help With Health Pew study shows most online health seekers don't check the source and date of the information they find.  |
AFP eWire January 10, 2005 |
Instant Messaging: The Next Online Donation Tool? Even though you're probably not maximizing the potential of email with donors, are you recognizing that IM and mobile text messaging is rapidly catching up to email in usage?  |
AFP eWire September 20, 2010 |
Most Fundraisers Face Few Ethical Situations Four out of five charitable fundraisers encounter ethical challenges, situations or dilemmas once a month or less, according to a website survey by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.  |
Information Today November 3, 2015 |
Pew Report Studies Device Ownership 68% of Americans age 18 and older have smartphones, and 45% have tablets.  |
InternetNews January 3, 2005 Roy Mark |
Blog Readership Spiked in 2004 New study shows growth not only in readers but also blog creation and news aggregators.  |
AFP eWire March 15, 2004 |
AFP Fundraising Survey Shows Giving Rebounded in 2003 Nearly 73 percent of respondents to AFP's third annual State of Fundraising Survey indicated that their organizations raised the same amount of money or more in 2003 than they did in 2002.  |
AFP eWire February 19, 2008 |
Majority of Americans Believe Nonprofit Overhead Unreasonable Sixty-two percent of Americans believe the typical nonprofit organization spends more than what is reasonable on overhead expenses such as administration and fundraising.  |
InternetNews August 30, 2010 |
Older Americans Flock to Social Networking New report from Pew Internet Project finds that older Americans are gravitating to social sites like Facebook and LinkedIn at a staggering rate, much faster than the young.  |
AFP eWire June 6, 2005 |
Americans Prefer Charities and Corporations to Work Together Nearly nine out of 10 Americans now believe that corporations and nonprofits should work together to raise awareness and funding for charitable causes.  |
Search Engine Watch October 31, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Rampant Malpractice Among Health Searchers Although most internet users turn to general-purpose search engines to find health related information, the majority don't bother to check the source and date of the information they find, according to a new study from the Pew Internet Project.  |
AFP eWire July 2, 2007 |
First Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report Published A new report can help charities identify areas of improvement in their fundraising, such as donor retention, by comparing gains and loss in a number of different categories.  |
| AFP eWire |
Canadian Charitable Giving Rises by 7 Percent in 2004 Canadian charities saw their fundraising increase by more than 7 percent in 2004, according to a new survey.  |
InternetNews May 7, 2007 David Needle |
Report: Most Aren't Rushing Into Web 2.0 Pew study indicates there are plenty of folks in no rush to use the latest Web services.  |
Information Today April 17, 2014 |
Pew Report Notes Increase in Online Information Theft The Pew Research Center released survey results that show an increase in the number of internet users who have had personal information stolen as a result of online activities  |
AFP eWire February 6, 2006 |
New Report Shows Fundraisers Hopeful About Giving in U.S. In the second half of 2005, fundraisers became slightly more hopeful than they had been six months previously about the climate for philanthropy in the United States, according to a December survey.  |
| AFP eWire |
Charitable Fundraising Takes Another Hit Just 43 percent of charities raised more money in 2009 than in 2008, marking it the worst year for charitable fundraising in a decade.  |
AFP eWire November 15, 2005 |
Fundraising Down Slightly Because of Hurricanes: Optimism Still Strong That Giving Will Recover by Year's End According to a survey, nearly half of U.S. charities have seen their fundraising decline because of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes and the associated relief efforts  |
InternetNews September 26, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Greater Worker Connectivity Brings Tradeoffs New study shows workers working more, but job stress rising as well.  |
AFP eWire March 26, 2007 |
Charities See Significant Fundraising Increases in 2006 Nearly seven in ten charities raised more money in 2006 compared to 2005, and almost a quarter of charities saw fundraising increases of 50% or higher, according to a survey.  |
AFP eWire May 5, 2008 |
Despite Economy, Some Foundations Plan to Increase Giving Three recent surveys that asked foundations if they plan to increase their giving in 2008 and beyond show mixed results.  |
AFP eWire May 29, 2007 |
Fundraising Remains Top Challenge for Charities Despite improved financial situations for many charities, fundraising remains the chief concern for most organizations, according to a new study.  |
AFP eWire July 21, 2008 |
'Isn't Email Just Like Regular Direct Mail--But on Steroids?' A cool $10 billion or so is now being raised annually online. But what is the truth about email?  |
AFP eWire December 15, 2009 |
AFP Holiday Giving Survey Shows Giving Still Lagging, But Optimism Rising Among Charitable Fundraisers About one-third of charities are raising more funds so far during the 2009 holiday season compared to the same time period in 2008, according to a new survey.  |
| AFP eWire |
Economy Slows Charitable Giving, Fundraising in 2007 Success rates still high, but gains much lower than 2006  |
AFP eWire April 14, 2008 |
Online Fundraising In 2008: Can We Blink Yet? While fundraising over the Internet still represents less than 4 percent of total funds raised, the rate has increased 50-fold over the last 10 years.  |
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Ethnic Personalities Apparent Online An examination of the African-American, white, and English-speaking Hispanic Internet population revealed as much diversity online as there is offline.  |
| AFP eWire |
Biggest Pressure for Future Nonprofit Leaders: Fundraising According to new research, fundraising is the primary reason many potential charity leaders of the future are not interested in being executive directors.  |
AFP eWire April 12, 2004 |
AFP Opposes FEC Rules on Political Activity, Advocacy The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking the commission to exempt 501(c) organizations from its proposed new rules on political committees and advocacy activities.  |
AFP eWire May 4, 2010 |
Charitable Fundraising Salaries Increase This growth in salary is in strong contrast to the two percent drop in salaries that was found last year.  |
AFP eWire April 21, 2008 |
Integrating Fundraising Activities Key to Success, Survey Finds Using a variety of well-rounded and diverse programs and activities to develop strong connections with donors is the most effective way to raise funds, according to a new series of studies.  |
AFP eWire May 2, 2005 |
New Giving Index Shows U.S. Philanthropy Quite Strong Despite mixed signals on the economy, Americans continue overwhelmingly to donate to a variety of charitable causes, with more than 90% giving at least $100 to more than $10,000 annually.  |
AFP eWire March 25, 2014 |
Six In 10 Charities Raise More Funds in 2013 Than in 2012; Rising Giving Seen Across Many Different Sources The finding is part of a larger trend of increasing giving, as a year ago, just 58 percent raised more funds. This year's result of 62 percent is the highest since 2007, before the global recession.  |
AFP eWire May 9, 2005 |
New Study Shows Accountability the Norm in the Nonprofit Sector A new study reveals that a large percentage of nonprofits across the U.S. already engage in the kinds of accountability practices currently under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee, bringing into question why nonprofit accountability has become such an issue with Congress.  |
Information Today April 23, 2015 |
Pew Report Collects Opinions on Open Government Data "Americans' Views on Open Government Data," is based on the first national survey designed to benchmark public sentiment about federal, state, and local government initiatives' use of data to "cultivate the public square."  |
AFP eWire January 9, 2006 |
Charities in New York, North Carolina Receiving More from Telemarketing Campaigns These states released a report showing that nonprofits there received a greater percentage of income from telemarketing firms soliciting on their behalf than in previous years.  |
InternetNews February 3, 2010 |
Youngsters Prefer Tweets to Blogs: Study Pew study reveals that young Internet users want to read and post messages that are short and to the point.  |
AFP eWire July 23, 2010 |
AFP President & CEO To Retire in March 2011 During her time as president and CEO, Paulette Maehara has led the association through a number of major changes and initiatives.  |
AFP eWire April 23, 2007 |
Focus on Donor Retention, Not Acquisition A new study shows that while charities are effective in attracting new donors, improvements in donor retention could affect their fundraising revenue dramatically.  |
InternetNews March 14, 2008 Judy Mottl |
My Cellphone, My Everything... A new study looks at how much we want our cellphones/smartphones, and how importantly they rank in our work tools.  |
AFP eWire October 16, 2004 |
Corporate Giving Still Robust, New Survey Reports Philanthropic giving by U.S. corporations and corporate foundations increased by 24 percent from 2002 to 2003, according to a new survey.  |
AFP eWire May 5, 2008 |
Don't Make Email Open Rates Your Canary in the Coal Mine Email tracking indicators may be casting a deceivingly dark shadow on your email campaign.  |
AFP eWire May 19, 2009 |
Growth Slows for Online Fundraising in '08, Smaller Donations the Culprit Online fundraising grew in 2008 thanks to an increase in the number of gifts, but the average gift size among all organizations decreased $15 from 2007.  |