# Convio reports 250% growth in online donations in 2005

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/12/30/convio-reports-250-growth-online-donations-2005/
- Published: 2005-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

American online constituent relationship management solutions (eCRM) provider Convio
reports that its nonprofit clients have increased their online income by 250% during
2005 compared to 2004.
Aggregate data from Convio’s 450 customers shows a “steep
rise in use of the Internet for fundraising, advocacy, constituent communications
and other activities”. From 1 January to 30 November 2005, Convio’s nonprofit organisation
clients used its tool to:

* raise more than $230 million online

* send more than 300 million emails, more than double the 2004 volume;

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* add nearly 16 million online constituents to their databases, an increase of more
than 80% compared to aggregate growth last year;

* persuade constituents to send more than 1.8 million advocacy action alerts, nearly
a threefold increase compared to 2004.

Although the Southeast Asia tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita contributed 
to this year’s large increase in online donations, if you remove disaster-related
donations, Convio’s customer base has still “more than doubled the amount of funds
raised online in 2005 year-to-date compared to 2004”.

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