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It Feels Good to Give

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Author: Julia Woodcock. The other morning I was watching Bill Gates on various news programmes talking about his annual State of the World letter. In one interview, he made reference to how good he feels about helping those in need. A simple point but one that we shouldn’t forget as fundraisers. A similar point was made at the Institute of Fundraising London Conference last year by fundraising trainer Rob Woods.

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Sustained Giving Online: What To Do

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Author: Danielle Johnson-Vermenton. For many nonprofits sustained giving is an untapped resource, at most it's available on your donation form and a check box on a remit slip. As 2012 gets rolling, now is the time to plan for and launch an online sustained giving campaign. Watch these slides to learn more best practices, strategy and tactics. Best Practices in Online Sustained Giving.

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Wired for Philanthropy

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Author: Sara Spivey. I don’t know how many of you are old enough to remember Steve Martin in the movie “The Jerk” but there is a really funny scene where he explodes into exuberant jubilation when he realizes his name has “made” the phone book—he dances around and says, “The new phone book is here, I’m somebody now!

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#shamelessplug: Take This Fundraising Survey!

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Author: Jill Ward. Getting people to respond to surveys is a hard nut to crack. Surveys, specifically online, get lost in the deluge of work and personal email, texts, Facebook updates, RSS feeds etc. And, honestly the surveyors don’t always give good and simple reasons to participate. People want to know.why is it important and what’s in it for them?

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Meet Sandy Schmieder

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Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. Sandy Schmieder. For the first podcast interview of 2012, I'm excited to have a chance to share a conversation I had with Sandy Schmieder, a Senior Project Manager on Convio's Services team. While Sandy has only been at Convio for about a year and a half, she is already one of our most valued project managers and has made huge contributions to our team.

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My City Made the Top 10 – So What?

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Author: Karoline McLaughlin. Almost every day I see some sort of “These cities made the top 10 because … they are the greatest places to live, they have the most active lifestyles for singles, they raise the most organic chickens,” and so on. If your city makes one of these lists, that is great and good reason to celebrate! Unless, of course, you live in Austin, TX like I do and are seeing the floods of people moving here because of all the “our city is so great” l

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