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I bought a new car last year and the first thing that the dealer said to me was, “Come on in, you deserve a nice car!”

Blackbaud just released the 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report.  This report analyzes data from 28 organizations (some of the biggest national nonprofits in the U.S.) and includes transactions for over 15 million donors and $1 billion in revenue.

I have always been really ambivalent about Disney princesses - Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel and Belle. Yuck.  They reinforce the worst stereotypes about women (and men).  A) That we (women) are passive creatures waiting for the prince to come.  B) That men have all of the answers and are the answers to our problems.  I’m also turned off by the fact that none of them look like me.  I’m an African-American woman.  Disney princesses are mostly white.

A new study called, 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report: And What it All Means for Your Good Cause shows that small and mid-sized nonprofits are clearly moving online when it comes to organizational communication and fundraising.

Care2 is pleased to provide this overview of The Online Giving Study: A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships just released by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing. The study, which you can download here, summarizes “$381 million in online giving through Network for Good’s platform, including 3.6 million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.” Here are some key findings.