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What Can We Expect from GivingTuesday in an Election Year?
Do political donors continue their generosity into year-end? A new analysis of data from recent election cycles reveals encouraging trends in giving from GivingTuesday and beyond.
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2017 Charitable Giving Report: Arts and Cultural Sector Spotlight
This arts and cultural spotlight offers a specialized look at 2017 giving data from the arts and cultural sector and shows how philanthropy was affected by a year of change and uncertainty.
2017 Charitable Giving Report: Higher Education Spotlight
In this higher education spotlight, you’ll get a deeper look at 2017 giving data and how philanthropy was affected by this year of change and uncertainty. We hope you use this information to get a head start on benchmarking your institution’s performance and advancing your fundraising strategies this year.
2017 Charitable Giving Report: Healthcare Sector Spotlight
The Healthcare Spotlight offers a specialized look at 2017 giving data from the healthcare sector and shows how philanthropy was affected by a year of change and uncertainty.
2017 Charitable Giving Report
The 2017 Charitable Giving Report is one of the most credible resources on fundraising performance in the social good community, tracking nearly $30 billion in U.S.-based charitable giving from the Blackbaud Index. In this report, you’ll get your first look at 2017 giving data and how philanthropy was affected by this year of change and uncertainty.
2016 donorCentrics® Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving
It’s here! The 2016 donorCentrics Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving is hot off the press and ready for viewing. The Report looks at alumni participation, donor retention, reactivation, and donor acquisition trends from more than 200 institutions around the country.
Fifth-Annual Charitable Giving Report
Now in its fifth year, the 2016 Charitable Giving Report leverages The Blackbaud Index—which tracks approximately $23 billion in US-based charitable giving—to provide one of the most credible resources on fundraising performance in the social good community. As you’re working day in and day out to make an impact for your cause, we hope this report can help by arming you with the information you need to benchmark your performance and guide your fundraising strategies this year and beyond.
2015 Charitable Giving Report
The 2015 Charitable Giving Report has leveraged findings from The Blackbaud Index for many years now to provide the largest analysis of overall and online giving data anywhere in the nonprofit sector. Our goal with this Report is to provide a benchmark for giving and help inform nonprofits’ fundraising strategies in 2016. The report includes overall giving data from 5,379 nonprofit organizations representing $18.2 billion in total fundraising from 2015. It also includes online giving data from 3,983 nonprofits representing $2.2 billion in online fundraising from 2015.
2013 Charitable Giving Report
The 2013 Charitable Giving Report leverages findings from The Blackbaud Index to provide the largest analysis of actual overall charitable giving and online giving data in the nonprofit sector.
The Next Generation of American Giving – 2013
The Next Generation of American Giving (2013) reveals multichannel preferences and charitable habits of Generation X, Generation Y, Baby Boomers, and Matures. These preferences can have a big impact on your fundraising ideas and strategies!
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