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This report discusses how to rally one's donors and organization for year end, follow up with lapsed donors, increase donor retention, incorporate peer-to-peer fundraising, and optimize an organization's website prior to giving. 

This report tracks over $40 billion in U.S.-based charitable giving from the Blackbaud Index. It examines overall, online, and international giving trends.

This report looks at high net worth investors' experience with and attitudes toward charitable giving. Themes covered include charitable giving strategy, motivations for giving, change in giving strategy, wealth advisor importance, sustainable investing, types of assets given to charities, and charitable giving vehicles.

This report provides industry insight and expert recommendations on how nonprofits can grow their Qualified Charitable Distributions gifts.

This report examines data from 1,151 charitable organizations that sponsored donor-advised funds (DAFs) in 2022. The results show increases in grants from DAFs and contributions to DAFs, with both reaching new highs.

This report explores the emerging trend of donor-advised funds from the nonprofit perspective, offering key insights that every nonprofit leader should know. It includes an overview of the state of DAFs in 2023, including favorability among nonprofit professionals; a first look at 2022 DAF-giving trends by organization size and cause area; and a deep dive on DAF-related pain points and how nonprofits can overcome them.

These reports provide industry data on fundraising gain and loss ratios.

This report includes news, data, facts, and analysis across the full range of nonprofit digital programs. It includes data and commentary covering digital advertising, email messaging, mobile/SMS messaging, social media, fundraising, membership, and website traffic and usage.

This report highlights the struggles and successes of nonprofit organizations in the past year and what's to come for nonprofit leaders in the year ahead. It includes insights on how nonprofits are embracing technology, ways nonprofits have started taking strategic planning seriously, and how major gifts have taken the lead over direct mail as the top fundraising strategy. 

This report shares the latest trends shaping planned giving and the steps that can be taken to grow planned giving in 2024.