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NEDRA Industry News Blog

Welcome to NEDRA's Industry News blog, where we feature news articles and other items of interest to the research community, curated by the NEDRA News Editor-In-Chief. We hope these selections will be of interest to you - and encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!

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  • BLOG: Nonprofits Collect Lots of Data, But Most Don’t Use It Says NTEN/Idealware Report

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:49 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week. Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a  survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data.   The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

    www.bethkanter.org/nonprofit-data/


  • 2012 Donations Down or Stagnant for Two-Thirds of Charities, Survey Finds

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:48 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    early two-thirds of charitable organizations report that gifts, grants and donations in the first nine months of 2012 fell or remained about the same on a year-over-year basis, a report from GuideStar finds.

    http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=399600004

  • BLOG: Marketing Planned Gifts to Women

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:46 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    ...in fundraising, we've known for some time that women control the purse strings and that we need to talk differently to women.

    www.smart-giving.com/plannedgivingblogger/audience-segmentation/i-love-infographics/

  • BLOG: Predictive analytics and philanthropy

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:44 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2012/11/predictive-analytics-and-philanthropy.html

  • How Fining Bad Banks Can Fix Our Biggest Money Problems

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:19 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    ndividuals don’t understand as much as they should about personal finance. That’s why we have government-supported financial education initiatives throughout the world, from Australia to the U.S. The hope is that one day more financially literate populations will help avoid future financial crises.

    Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/11/16/how-fining-bad-banks-can-fix-our-biggest-money-problems/#ixzz2CmgnBNMm
    John Pelletier, Director of the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College, believes he has the funding solution: Every time a bank crosses the line and must pay a fine, regulators should tack on a surcharge to underwrite financial literacy programs.

    Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/11/16/how-fining-bad-banks-can-fix-our-biggest-money-problems/#ixzz2Cmh22wqV
    John Pelletier, Director of the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College, believes he has the funding solution: Every time a bank crosses the line and must pay a fine, regulators should tack on a surcharge to underwrite financial literacy programs.

    business.time.com/2012/11/16/how-fining-bad-banks-can-fix-our-biggest-money-problems

  • 8 companies you didn’t know had so much money

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:16 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    www.marketwatch.com/story/8-companies-you-didnt-know-had-so-much-money-2012-11-16

  • Tips for Cultivating Major Gift Prospects with Data Analytics

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:15 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Predictive modeling and wealth screening are great ways to identify potential major gift prospects who you may not have considered in the past.  You can also mine your own database to find these prospects too.

    http://www.npengage.com/analytics/tips-for-cultivating-major-gift-prospects-with-data-analytics/

  • Regulator fears fraud from hedge-fund ad rules

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:14 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    At issue is a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal introduced in August to relax rules that have kept hedge funds, private-equity firms and small companies from soliciting to the general public for decades. The proposal is going through a comment period, but hedge-fund advertising is likely to be implemented in 2013.

    www.marketwatch.com/story/regulator-fears-fraud-from-hedge-fund-ad-rules-2012-11-15

  • New Breed of Global Donors Merges Money With Activism

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:13 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/new-breed-of-global-donors-merges-money-with-activism/58130

  • Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need

    Tue, November 20, 2012 12:12 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Social media and the Internet have completely changed the way people donate money and discover causes they're interested in. To help your organization find the tools it needs, we have compiled a list of the best software and web-based tools along with resources on how to meet the many challenges of modern fundraising.

    http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive/2012/11/16/fundraising-the-tech-tools-you-need.aspx

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