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The new report, Nonprofit Content Marketing 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America, created by the Content Marketing Institute and Blackbaud and sponsored by FusionSpark Media, shows nonprofit marketers have grown in their use of content marketing and are driving efficiency and making progress using the resources (even if limited) they have.

Nonprofit marketers are doing more with content marketing — and feeling more confident about their effectiveness. They’re trying more tactics, using more social-media platforms, growing in their internal knowledge and skills, and focusing on becoming better storytellers.

(Press release, Nov. 3, 2014) — The Blackbaud Index reported that overall charitable giving to nonprofits increased 1.8 percent and online giving increased 12.6 percent for the three months ending September 2014 as compared to the same period in 2013.

In an exciting, two-part webinar series FundRaising Success is hosting in partnership with Blackbaud and Charity Dynamics, the ALS Association is providing an exclusive, inside look at what happened this summer and what has happened since the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Join FundRaising Success in Washington, D.C., next week for our inaugural peer-to-peer conference, Engage P2P: Redefining Peer to Peer.

Tweets from Blackbaud's bbcon conference (#bbcon2014).

Last October, Amy Braiterman, manager of peer-to-peer strategic services for Blackbaud, provided "3 Keys to Year-End Giving Success," noting that "Fundraising in the nonprofit world is certainly uncertain, but there’s one thing that we can count on: December."

Today's fundraising news: New Blackbaud products, a call for Bridge session proposals, and a free webianr from TechSoup.

"In my view, all fundraising is peer-to-peer." That's how Jeff Shuck, CEO of Plenty Consulting, opened his session yesterday at bbcon, Blackbaud's annual conference. "… It's not about who we know. It's about who they know."

Ted Hart, CEO of Charities Aid Foundation of America(CAFAmerica) and CEO of P2P Fundraising, GreenNonprofits.org and TedHart.com, broadcasts live from Blackbaud's bbcon 2014 conference in Nashville for a special 90-minute episode of his Nonprofit Coach radio show.

Check out some tweets from #bbcon2014 (also #bbcon).