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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

The data says we should move on. Two recent reports share data about the actual role celebrity connection plays in nonprofit fundraising and both say the same thing: forget celebrities. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Getting Over Celebrities.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. It uses data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS), the nation’s largest study that tracks giving patterns among the same households over time."

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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Great reads from around the web on April 23rd

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There are also indicator data including maternal health, infant mortality, malnutrition, poverty, and population. All 79 IDA countries, the lowest income nations, are included with the geographic locations of projects, financing, and sector identification such as water, transportation, governance, etc.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites." NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., Unconference here: [link].

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

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In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve." Tags: roundup bookmarks collaboration competitions data development evaluation facebook innovation list london microgiving nptech postalicious resources roi socialchange socialmedia technology.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

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." ClientTrack | Win ClientTrack Express – "For the first time in our company's history, we are giving away one full use license of ClientTrack Express for one (1) year, including the server space required at our secure data location. The total value of the prize could be up to $7,200!

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