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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

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Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Community Is Better than Cute Cats: How to Raise Money for Your Unsexy, but Important, Cause

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Consider this simple comparison of potential reach for campaigns run by two very different nonprofits: Large Nonprofit Using Direct Mail. How do you build a community of even 1,000 people engaged enough to share your campaigns with their friends? Run project-based fundraising campaigns. 100,000 people. 100,000 people.

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Free Ranger Rick

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I've been busy trying to cram over 150 tech shirts into a suitcase to take to Cambodia so I missed this one. In addition, some comparisons of the pros/cons between Facebook and Myspace policies and the larger organizational policy issue related to embracing Web2.0 Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. social networking sites.

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Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink Gerhard Buttner wrote: Interesting comparison (and thanks for that oxfam link): obviously too simplistic as you point out, Steve, but it surely shows something is a bit rotten. Why did I know of your connection Cambodia! That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system.

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