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How to Convert Peer-to-Peer Event Participants into Monthly Donors

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Turn Your P2P Event into a Lifestyle Kristine Rauh, associate vice president of the BikeMS Experience from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is a firm believer in transforming P2P events from a stand-alone experience into a lifestyle. billion for the organization since the event was launched in 1980. What politicians do they support?)

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Allegations of fake profiles being created to drum up votes. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? Does it really raise an organization's profile to be in the coi pond? What's wrong with this picture? Beth Kanter summarizes some of what went wrong. I'm not going to rehash all that here.

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Brainstorming with OpenIDEO to Save Lives

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You probably know that leukemia is a form of cancer of the blood or bone marrow. Resonating with the central idea behind The Dragonfly Effect , we are using OpenIDEO’s open-innovation platform and social media tools to achieve our goal of getting one hundred thousand individuals into the National Bone Marrow Registry this year.

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4 Tips for Using Facebook Fundraising for Year-End Giving

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Not only do your supporters likely already know how to navigate the platform, but they already have profiles. The concept for GoodUnited came through Nick's work co-founding and leading Stop Soldier Suicide, a 501c3 that grew from startup to national leader in reducing veteran suicide to the national average in ten years.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

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“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information and profiles of as many as 87 million people who used Facebook without their consent or knowledge.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Allegations of fake profiles being created to drum up votes. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? Does it really raise an organization's profile to be in the coi pond? What's wrong with this picture? Beth Kanter summarizes some of what went wrong. I'm not going to rehash all that here.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. If you want to learn more about what I’ll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. Gen Z By The Numbers.

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