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The benefits of using Web 2.0 tools: a view from the corporation

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tools, with a median improvement over 200 of 25% in raising awareness, 17% in converting to buyers and 20% in generating loyalty. There were internal benefits as well, with 68% citing an increased access to knowledge, up 30% from 2008, and 54% claiming reduced communications costs, up by 20% from 2008.

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Fighting Through a Down Economy: How Admissions Offices Adjusted

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When the economy crashed in 2008, we all felt the negative impact, including K-12 private schools. Schools evolved from sending vanilla email blasts to leveraging personalized e-Marketing tools that demonstrated a true understanding of the wants and needs of their audience. This allowed for sound, data-driven strategic decisions.

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3 Nonprofit Fundraising Lessons Learned from Political Campaigns

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Campaigns push staff, vendors, and consultants to stretch and test the limits of best practices and tools in communication, fundraising, advertising, branding and targeting. As the 2008 campaign was heating up, internet based tools, especially social media, were really taking off. Lesson Two: Social Networking.

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Welcome to the New Age of Accountability in Grant Management

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In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession.

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4 Steps to Implementing Your Social Change Strategy: A Case Study with SEFCU

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Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. with more than $3.7

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Help Idealist.org so it will be there for us in the future

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Mentoring and Teaching tools : Inspiration for up-and-coming leaders and tools to help teachers introduce youth to public service are just a couple of the items that you'll find to help the next generation of do- gooders get fueled. By September 2008, after years of steady growth, these little drops were covering 70% of our budget.

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Things To Do In Twitter

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Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. Like all social media tools, however, it takes nuturing. Statistics.

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