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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

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Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Now that you’ve got the basics done, it’s time to think about who’s most likely to respond to your fundraising ads. If you plan to invest in fundraising ads over time, there’s a good chance you can improve your ROI by A/B testing.

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Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned

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Dawn was invited by the White House to fly to Virginia to share her story in person with President Obama. 3) When Dawn posted on the Daily Kos, she didn’t realize that Daily Kos bloggers usually frequently return to their posts and respond to comments made. Her story was right on the mark.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo.

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Meet Connie Bensen: Network Weaver and Online Community Strategist

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Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists. In a recent post on Blogher, Virginia DeBolt mentions the list titled 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women by Jimmy Atkinson. (I

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

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Angela Stockman , an educator and blogger in upstate New York, told me about how Sarah Hanson from Alden High School and Stacy VanEtten's seventh grade class are participating in the Working Together 2 Make A Difference project. Network Solutions partnered with a 12-year old Connor who was raising money for hunger by selling popcorn.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

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With keynote speakers Travis Manzione (Director of Assessment Tools for The Center for Effective Philanthropy ) and Charles Best (Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org ), and a panel representing local nonprofits and funders (including Ear Candy , Phoenix Youth at Risk , SRP , and Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 5comments: Kayla said.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

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VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.