Matching Gifts Practices 2010 It's time once again - time for us to invite your participation in the 5th annual survey on matching gifts. We've revised and upgraded the survey just a bit more this year, but overall it is the same basic structure as prior years. It is our intent again to provide ideas for how to improve and enhance matching give revenue and compare results with prior surveys to find with tactics have been most fruitful. Print version. Brian Dowling and Amy Phillips.

Best Practices. March 11, 10

The Best Practices Team of the Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) is pleased to announce that the second round of draft best practices will be posted to the AASP wiki site during the third week of March. Recent postings from the AASP blog.

Online Matching Gifts. March 10, 10
Free webinar from HEP Development Services. Maximizing matching gift revenue is more important than ever in these challenging times. In spite of our recent economic downturn many non profits according two recent surveys are actually growing matching gifts. One new trend is to include matching gifts right on the on line donation page. Making donors aware of the matching gift opportunity is one of the greatest challenges to nonprofits. More matching gifts.

Crystal Reports - 5 Tests. March 9, 10
5 tests for top performance for Crystal Reports contributed by Jason Dove from Scry Business Intelligence. More reports.

Planned Giving. March 8, 10
Vendor resources on planned giving. Crescendo on Facebook, Planned Giving Videos on YouTube, Crescendo Tweet, Blog on Planned Giving.

Matching Gift Buckslip. March 5, 10
Matching gift buckslip used in mailings and annual report. Contributed by Trista S. Lowther from Boys Town. More matching gifts.

Major Gifts Report. March 4, 10
February revealed a surge in new Major Gifts. From the first half of the month I tracked $154 million in major gifts that was surpassed in the last few weeks with $305 million more for a total of $459 million for February, 2010. This includes only those major gifts that I find in my day-to-day survey and is not the total amount of giving.  Take note of more evidence of what I refer to as Pockets of Philanthropy in 2009, when you review the campaign results from the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare in Louisville + the over goal report from the United Way in Roanoke, VA. Congrats all around. Terry Burton from Dig in Research. More news on the SupportingAdvancement blog.
 

SupportingAdvancement @ E-Solicitations and Click-Through Donations   Webinar - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 AGPN - Meeting of the Minds   April 8-9, 2010, Pomona, CA APRA 23rd Annual Conference   July 21-24, 2010 Anaheim, CA ICAA Summer Conference   July 28-30, 2010, Huron, OH

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