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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Some of the most notable donations include $100M+ to Fidelity Charitable, $29M to Donors Choose , $4 million to the Ellen Wildlife Fund , $50M to a dozen universities, and $56M to almost 60 different charities from an anonymous donor.

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Diversity in fundraising

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The sector can achieve this lofty but critical goal of diversifying fundraising staffs and strategies by helping to develop programs with local and national universities and community colleges with heavy minority representation. in History from Arizona State University in 2008 and earned an M.A. He earned a B.A. He earned a B.A.

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Research on Gender Pay Gap in Nonprofit Sector

Top Nonprofits

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been listening to those working in the nonprofit sector for years. Since 2008, extensive research and conversations have revealed the state of women in nonprofit careers.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. from University of Chicago in Anthropology & Latin American Studies and a B.A.

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Raise More By Avoiding “One Size Fits All” Email Appeals

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3) A university found their newsletter open rates increased by 7-12% when they personalized the first story within a newsletter to different audiences. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. How much the event raised that year.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.