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Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. Guest post by Jesse Noyes. The outlook for the Statue of Liberty was bleak in 1885. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. And we generated over 18,000 mood data points for our researcher, Frances Ulman, Ph.D. Experimonth started out as play. I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009.

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A First Look at Jumo

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But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

Connection Cafe

And sure, there are also the nuclear believers—folks who've made DRTV work on a sustainable basis, but like the Frances of the world, they tend to be the outliers in the traditional revenue power equation. Perhaps not the cleanest or most glamorous, but they power the revenue engine.

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5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit.

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Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Fewer than half report such requests in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. This year’s survey has been expanded to a more global view. and the U.S.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

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The argument for stories In 2003, John Sadowsky and Loick Roche, two professors at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, reviewed the major academic literature on storytelling and wrote a paper called, "The power of stories: a discussion of why stories are powerful". Nonprofits are adding stories to their fundraising messages.

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