The Blackbaud Index reported that overall charitable giving to nonprofits decreased 2.4% while online giving increased 1.5% for the three months ending May 2016 compared to the same period in 2015. Read more...

Care2, the world’s largest community for good, announces the availability of its latest whitepaper, “The Ultimate Nonprofit Welcome Series Toolkit.”  This 16-page whitepaper is a guide to introducing new supporters to a nonprofit using a series of welcome emails. Read more...

Every year, thousands of pediatric patients are treated at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center,Mass General Hospital Pediatric Oncology and other organizations throughout the city. Unfortunately, hundreds have to stay there long term, even through the summer. Summer is a time where kids should be out having fun. These kids are not always able to enjoy summer due to financial restrictions, time and health reasons. Read more...

 iDonate digital fundraising solution for nonprofits, has announced Ignite, a new SaaS offering that bundles a major expansion of the company’s digital fundraising platform with a set of integrated services to make it easier for customers to grow.  Building on its highly successful digital solutions that include thousands of ways for donors to give, the platform now includes new event ticketing tools and robust analytics to measure performance.  In addition, these new donor experiences are complemented by a fresh suite of learning, coaching and consulting services to more completely meet the needs of today’s nonprofit organizations and their donors. Read more...