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At the day two plenary session during the Nonprofit Technology Network's 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, Texas, the 2015 DoGooder Video Awards winners were announced. The awards, presented by YouTube, See3 and NTEN, honor some of the best videos for good out there.

How do you turn participation in a fundraising event into a lasting donor relationship built upon common goals? How do you take responders and turn them into investors?

An effort to funnel an additional $3.4 million to local nonprofit agencies in San Francisco was defeated at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, prompting plenty of sharp comments from members on each side of the vote. The measure, pushed by Supervisor Eric Mar, would have taken money from a $21.6 million windfall now predicted for the current budget year and boosted the $6.75 million increase the 1,400 or so nonprofits with city contracts received last June, matching the 2.25 percent raise city workers received.

To get a handle on what’s in store for 2015, NonProfit PRO rounded up some of the nonprofit industry’s finest, who were kind enough to share their nonprofit trends for 2015. Here are four trends on donor demographics.

Millions of pounds of donations to charities have been inadvertently held up, blocked or returned by banks, over fears that the money could end up financing terrorism, a think tank report warns. International banks, including HSBC, UBS and NatWest, have frozen accounts held by U.K.-registered charities and international non-governmental organizations delivering aid in areas such as Syria, Gaza and Iraq.

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Here are three important objectives for every single major donor visit you will ever make.

If you donated to a Central New York charity through a telemarketer, the organization you were trying to help received less than half of your money. Telemarketers kept more than 50 percent of the money they raised. A new report released Wednesday by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found that Central New York charities did among the worst when it came to keeping money raised by for-profit telemarketers. On average, Central New York organizations kept just 39.6 percent of the money people donated, according to the report, called Pennies for Charity.

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Employment growth is expected to remain strong at nonprofits, with 50 percent planning to add jobs this year, according to a survey released Wednesday. That figure tops recent estimates for job growth in the business world ­— and indicates that turnover will intensify at charities.

This year’s hiring plans would essentially mirror what happened last year, when 49 percent of nonprofits increased the size of their staffs, according to a survey of 362 nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada conducted by Nonprofit HR, a consulting firm in Washington.