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What Previous Crises Can Teach Us About Navigating the Current Fundraising Environment

Connection Cafe

Whether it be the tragedy of 9/11, a tsunami, an economic recession, an earthquake in Haiti, a country divided by an election or a devastating brushfire, there are many high-profile events of the past that have threatened to push the fundraising landscape to its limit. From each one of these events, a key fundraising lesson has emerged.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Qgiv

For example, many faith-based nonprofits will use peer-to-peer fundraising to generate participant support for walkathons or 5Ks. Your faith-based nonprofit has likely helped more people than you can count. FishHawk Fellowship Church & Welcome Home HaitiHaiti Mission Trip. Go Beyond Simple Branding.

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Great reads from around the web on January 15th

Amy Sample Ward

." » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. " My favorite lesson? .

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Areas served: Mexico, Haiti, US (priority: Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans). They award grants for educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future. Areas served: US.

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100 Fundraising Email Subject Lines That Will Get Donors to Open Your Email

Get Fully Funded

Yet many people who write nonprofit fundraising emails do not spend much time on the subject line, nor do they take the time to learn about the types of subject lines that get results. Whenever I sign up for emails from a nonprofit, I’m interested in what they’re doing. Want to know the biggest danger in Haiti right now? .

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. Making Social Investments.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

Freecycle is a nonprofit that facilitates people giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. And in doing so, of course, we move forward our nonprofit conservation mission of keeping good stuff out of landfills. I was driving around to other nonprofits as fast as I could, trying to give stuff away.