International Fund for Animal Welfare

To help kick of our new monthly Mission of the Month feature, here are some the most recent case studies we've conducted at FS over the past 20 months on animal welfare organizations.

The ball drops in Times Square, and next thing you know, Chez Seville is lousy with membership cards. Over the course of about six weeks, I received member/partner/supporter cards from 18 different organizations.

Over the course of about six weeks, I received member/partner/supporter cards from 18 different organizations.

Last month, YouTube announced YouTube Next Cause: a program designed to help nonprofits already changing the world better use online video to drive action.

Twenty organizations were introduced for the first class:

• Autism Speaks
• Children's Hospital Boston
• IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare
• Sunlight Foundation
• BuildOn
• American Heart Association
• CARE
• American Foundation for Equal Rights
• Malaria No More
• The Humane Society of the United States
• The Pablove Foundation
• COTS - Committee on the Shelterless
• Durango Discovery Museum
• Save Mount Diablo
• Art Resources in Teaching
• breakthrough
• Per Scholas
• The Supply
• Born Free USA
• The Lazarex Cancer Foundation

Blackbaud released a report focused on fundraising trends based on monthly findings from The Blackbaud Index. Additionally, Blackbaud announced the release of a new specialty index focused on arts, culture, and humanities organizations.

Overall, charitable giving once again increased in the latest three month period, rising 3 percent over prior year results

Blackbaud has entered into a Strategic Partnership agreement with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the largest community of fundraising professionals in the world. As a strategic partner, Blackbaud will continue its work with AFP supporting educational opportunities for fundraising professionals.

Blackbaud today announced the release of two groundbreaking research studies at the Run Walk Ride 2011 Fundraising Conference at the Intercontinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta. The first studyrevealed the results of their first annual “Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey.” 

The second study reported on the findings of Blackbaud’s first annual “donorCentrics Event Benchmarking Summary,” a study based on in-depth analysis of fundraising performance data from six top nonprofit organizations from 2007 through 2009. 

Blackbaud announced the release of “Connecting Online Advocacy and Fundraising”, a white paper focused on optimizing advocacy appeals that lead to increased response rates and fundraising.

“The integration of advocacy and fundraising has proven successful with many organizations,” said Daigneault co-author Steve Daigneault of M+R Strategic Services. “In fact, advocates are seven-times more likely to give as compared to non-advocates.”

Nonprofit organizations are turning to technology to aid them in the reinvention and evaluation of fundraising programs; a growing trend according to a report of Top Technology Trends released today by Blackbaud.

Blackbaud announced the release of a report focused on fundraising trends based on monthly findings from The Blackbaud Index and featuring commentary from Dave Strauss, president and chief executive officer of SCA Direct. Additionally, Blackbaud announced the release of a new specialty index focused on environmental and animal welfare organizations.