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Designing for Good: Pratima Mani + Josh Tabb

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I also read up on a lot of web design blogs, which explain the things you might already be seeing but help identify what’s working and what’s not. However, getting good, quality pictures of the day-to-day work on the ground in Africa is a definite challenge. Smashing Magazine. Webby Awards. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR DESIGN IS SUCCESSFUL?

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Getting Creative with Online Fundraising: 10 Campaigns Using Mission Inspired Gifts aka Gift Catalogues

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They’ve also done a great jobs on including descriptions for each item in their ecommerce store on hoe exactly that item helps a specific need. To all the animal lovers out there: who wouldn’t love a little stuffed animal or photo of the location you helped save?

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So, You Want to Be like charity: water?

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She signed up because she “wanted to do something—help in some way—and this was something she could do.” She signed up with Team In Training to run and fundraise for her first marathon after her best friend’s step brother was diagnosed with a blood cancer. Did you catch that? Her best friend’s step brother, Gregory.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

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I secretly hoped that at least those other 95% recycled… And I couldn't help but draw parallels in my mind about marketing channel mix and energy. In my mind, the comparison works this way: DM=oil TM=coal DRTV=Nuclear Email= Natural gas Mobile, social, geolocation= solar, wind, geothermal. Starting to sound pretty familiar?

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Update: Nonprofits - Power and Influence in our lives

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As a successful dentist, he wants his family to give back to the community and use their talents and blessings to help other. A friend of mine and his wife asked me about insight into starting a nonprofit. I think the place that I was most surprised to see an opportunity to get engaged with a nonprofit was at Laser Tag.

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Your Nonprofit’s Success Starts with Getting Discovered | 3 Steps You Need to Take

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A speaker visits their school and talks about water shortages in Africa. Once you identify some common trends, create a constituent persona to help communicate your target audience to the rest of the organization. There are many ways constituents discover nonprofit organizations. They buy tickets to the local aquarium.

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Your Nonprofit’s Success Starts with Getting Discovered | 3 Steps You Need to Take

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A speaker visits their school and talks about water shortages in Africa. Once you identify some common trends, create a constituent persona to help communicate your target audience to the rest of the organization. There are many ways constituents discover nonprofit organizations. They buy tickets to the local aquarium.

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