16 Conservation Groups See 11% Growth in 2024 End-of-Year Appeals

16 Conservation Groups See 11% Growth in 2024 End-of-Year Appeals

by Baird Straughan   How did conservation nonprofits fare in their end-of-year appeals in 2024?  Numbers are not in for the country as a whole, but for 16 small-to-midsized conservation organizations for which we have data, 2023 saw a recovery from 2023 declines in year-end giving from individuals.  Year-over-year revenue from events, donations, major donations […]

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Webinar: Lessons Learned from 2023 End-of-Year Fundraising

Webinar: Lessons Learned from 2023 End-of-Year Fundraising

The date for this webinar has passed. If you missed it and would like a copy of the session, please send an email to contact@watergrass.org to request a copy. Lessons Learned from 2023 End-of-Year FundraisingFriday, March 29, 2024, 1pm EST Guest Speakers:     Brittany Chavez – Arizona Trail Association     Maggie Stange and Crys Bauer – West Virginia Rivers Coalition  […]

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Recommended Workaround: Google Chrome 108 Breaks Some WordPress Donation Pages

Recommended Workaround: Google Chrome 108 Breaks Some WordPress Donation Pages

​UPDATE: As of 12/8/2022 Click and Pledge has patched its WordPress plugin to avoid the problem. Visitors using Chrome 108 on Click and Pledge donation pages will see the picklists, which look slightly different – they’re truncated, and visitors will have to scroll to the desired value. But they work. Google is also rolling out […]

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WaterGrass & UNH Paul School Partner to Extract Lessons from Fundraising and Volunteer Data

WaterGrass & UNH Paul School Partner to Extract Lessons from Fundraising and Volunteer Data

Great news! It’s been 12 years since we founded WaterGrass, and along the way we’ve gathered some 200 organization/years of anonymized data on donor and volunteer behavior. There’s surely a lot to learn in it, but we’ve been too busy developing new features to really dig as we’d like to. Now Dr. Phani Kidampi of […]

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