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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. Excessive salaries or fundraising expenses should raise a red flag.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies.

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Mobile Fundraisers: Explore Best Practices & Campaign Ideas

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Mobile fundraising empowers people to give on the go! Whether supporters are donating through text or accessing your online donation page on their smartphones, it’s imperative that your organization has the tools, resources, and best practices to conduct a successful mobile fundraising campaign. What Is Mobile Fundraising?

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Can You Crowdsource Your Next Big Fundraising Idea?

Connection Cafe

Dell’s IdeaStorm launched in 2007 and since then, 23,000 ideas have been submitted and 550 have been implemented. With all this crowdsourcing at the corporate level, is it time for fundraisers to up their game? Not surprisingly, they also tend to be the best fundraisers. Crowdsourcing for Engagement.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. That may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that millions of people have played the game since its inception in 2007. TweetsGiving 2009.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? A Platform for Self-Organizing.