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9 Ways to Improve Your Next Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, letting supporters know that their donation will help feed a family of four or send a child to school for a year is more powerful than simply asking for a specified amount of money. Tie dollars to something real. Associate the donation levels for your campaign or event with what the funds will provide. Ask, clearly.

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5 Good Nonprofit Infographics

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Three Things That Happen When Facebook Pages Reach 10,000 Fans

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. I would have been incredibly annoyed if at 10,000 fans the Page would have lost News Feed exposure. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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Guest Post: 8 Simple Ways to Improve Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Double the Donation

Letting supporters know that their donation will help feed a family of four or send a child to school for a year is more impactful than asking for a specified amount of money. Tie money to real items. Associate the donation levels for your campaign or event with what the funds will provide for your organization.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. There is no sense in forcing something that likely won’t work; understand what motivates your constituents and feed those natural inclinations with supportive technology.