A comprehensive new analysis of nonprofit online fundraising and advocacy out today found that online fundraising showed steady growth for participating groups in 2010 despite the current economic climate. Most groups saw a 10% increase in dollars raised online from 2009 to 2010, the same percentage increase those groups saw from 2008 to 2009, but slower than those nonprofits were seeing from 2006 to 2008, prior to the recession. Read more...

Sage North America today announced several major enhancements to Sage Fundraising Online, its flexible fundraising and event registration connected service that helps nonprofits increase giving, participation, and overall support online. A nonprofit can use Sage Fundraising Online to create and embed donation, event registration, and personalized fundraising forms anywhere on the web to allow donors and participants to fundraise on their organization's behalf. Read more...

Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) today announced it has entered into an agreement with O-matic Software to market Import-O-Matic^TM, an O-matic Software plug-in that greatly expands the data import capabilities of Blackbaud's The Raiser's Edge® fundraising software. The advanced importing features of Import-O-Matic help streamline data processing by increasing data entry efficiency and eliminating most of the manual steps required for data entry. Read more...