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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. Pick up the phone and call your fundraisers. Tie dollars to something real. Ask, clearly. Reach out directly.

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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. Consider picking up the phone and calling your fundraisers. Tie money to real items. This also helps make raising money fun — a win for all!

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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 Google Chrome September 4, 2008 The hiatus is over with a short entry about Google Chrome , the new browser from Google that I learned about on the twitterverse while I was stopped at one rest stop or another.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

In 2008, I found Ravelry. Communicating entirely through email and sending him pictures taken on my phone, I completed the sweater pieces, taking notes on stitch counts and making changes as we went along based on Mathew’s feedback. But it did help feed my yarn habit over the past couple of years.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Christian also sent me some links that answer an earlier question I've had, " How Can We Use Cell Phones to Bring Web 2.0 " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?"

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.