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3 Areas to Improve Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Results

Double the Donation

Challenges can be related to your organization’s mission, such as “the participant who posts the most pet-themed photos wins the challenge,” or generic, like “the participant with the most donor selfies wins.” Survey responses. After each event or campaign, it’s a good idea to send participants a survey to capture their feedback.

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Does Your Organization Value IT?

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Flickr Photo: eszter. Annual IT Staffing Survey , brought to you by NTEN and The Nonprofit Times. When you have time to take a 15-minute break, we hope you'll take our survey. > Take the Online Survey. the survey , then pass it on to a colleague or six! > Take the Online Survey. time for the 4th.

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Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. We see examples in the ongoing success of Kickstarter , in the record number of small donations President Barack Obama collected during his 2008 campaign and, humorously, in the manner Stephen Colbert has solicited funds for his satiric Super Pac. Guest post by Jesse Noyes.

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Giving When You're Unemployed: It Could Make You Happier and Wealthier

Have Fun - Do Good

A March 2008 report in Science magazine, Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness , found that, "spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness both cross-sectionally (in a nationally representative survey study) and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending)." Photo of Sunflower by me.

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What's the String that Ties One Experience at Your Institution with the Next?

Museum 2.0

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. They had not taken photos in our photo booth and gotten an email about them later. They were not part of our Facebook community sharing photos and stories from the event.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

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Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Maybe We Have Ourselves to Blame

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Flickr Photo: All Chihuahuas Did you listen to the This I Believe segments on NPR? 54% of respondents to our last IT Staffing Survey told us they're understaffed in IT. of respondents to the 2008 IT Staffing Survey evaluated the technology projects they completed that year. Why don't we do this math? Only 21.5%