Convio, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVO) announced the release of its third annual ranking of Most Generous Online Cities. Alexandria, VA, Cambridge, MA and Arlington, VA, topped the list for the second year in a row as the nation's most generous large cities based on online giving in 2010. The biggest movers in the top 10 are San Francisco, moving up 5 places to number seven; Minneapolis, falling five places to number 10; and Seattle, moving up two places to number four.

Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced that it has hired Richard Becker as president of Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company offering solutions for donor acquisition, prospect research, benchmarking, custom modeling, and data enrichment to more than 6,000 nonprofits. Target Analytics is the only company that provides a comprehensive solution which helps nonprofits replenish their donor pool, identify best prospects, provide peer-to-peer comparisons, and ensure a nonprofit's information is as accurate as possible.

Sage North America has announced that a student edition for its Sage Fund Accounting nonprofit financial management software is shipping with a new textbook, titled Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting Concepts and Practices (5^th Edition). Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the textbook is currently being used or evaluated by dozens of U.S. colleges and universities, including Regis University in Denver, Colo.; the University of Houston in Houston, Texas; the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.; and The University of Texas at Austin (Texas). Read more...