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Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps life all the boats. I was honored when Holly agreed to do this post about the 2012 Editorial Calendar. And, now, we are excited to present the new and improved editorial calendar for 2012. Flickr Photo by Yandel.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. GiveMN 2012 by the Numbers by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist. It was an amazing day of giving for our state—$16.3

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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2012 Report

sgEngage

The Giving USA 2012 report is out and it gives us a look at philanthropic trends from 2011. Fundraising growth in the arts subsector was helped by an $800 million cash gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas from the Walton Family Foundation. To get the full report go to the Giving USA 2012 website.

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Connecting with Black History Through Community and Nature

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog to share her experience participating in outdoor recreation activities as a Black woman in America. That blog grew into Outdoor Afro , a nationwide leadership network helping Black people engage with the outdoors, learn about the Black history of public spaces, and support conservation efforts.

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How Baby Boomers Use The Internet

TechImpact

The huge increase in revenue generated by online donations also helped fundraisers realize their market is now, firmly, online. In 2012, baby boomers spent over 27 hours per week on the Internet, 2 hours more than millennials!(WSL Image courtesy of Modern Senior. Two-thids of Americans over the age of 50 buy from Internet retailers.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. Your purchases help improve the lives of tens of thousands of artisans worldwide. [ Shop 10,000 Villages ].

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight. Four years ago, web 2.0

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