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What You Need in Your Nonprofit’s Fundraiser Toolkit

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Within this introduction, you can also include some basic background information on your history, mission, and values. Additionally, if your fundraiser toolkit is for a specific challenge, such as an annual walk, you can share a little more about the event, including how and why it got started and its overall timeline.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. 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. Why Social Media?

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Hackathons Aim to Improve Aid Distribution and Coordination in Haiti

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Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. After the 7.0-magnitude

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. The internet is not new.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. But consider the following: Networking.

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How Social Media Influencers Fuel your Fundraising Goals

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Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. That said, below are 10 text campaigns that I was able to find through Google and Twitter searches: 1.

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