President and CEO of Livecharity Corporation, Johnny Saffar, announced that it will introduce its new advertising model at livecharity.com. A video posted today gives insight to how Livecharity plans to have a positive impact to help those in need around the world. Subscribers will be able to help their favorite NPO by doing what they do every day online at absolutely no cost to them. Read more...

Revolution Analytics, the only commercial provider of open source R software, today announced the launch of an Academic Institution Program and a Public Service Program. The new programs provide educational and nonprofit institutions with full access to Revolution R Enterprise (RRE), the company’s flagship Big Data predictive analytics software, for a yearly licensing fee of $999, which includes a license for unlimited users and general support. A free license will continue to be available for individuals through the Individual Scholar Program. Read more...

Blackbaud, Inc. released its Charitable Giving Report, featuring the sector’s first look at actual data showing how nonprofit fundraising performed in 2013, as well as commentary from experts in the field. The Report draws from The Blackbaud Index, which tracks $12.5 billion in U.S.-based charitable giving from more than 4000 organizations on a monthly basis to provide the largest analysis of overall and online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Read more...

Dejavoo Systems, a New York-based value added reseller (VAR), has selected DonateWiseNow® to be included in its next generation point-of sale devices.  The charity at checkout application, which enables consumers to make small donations to nonprofits while completing transactions with a credit or debit card, is now part of the packages Dejavoo offers its ISO and merchant clients.
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