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Donate to Hurricane Sandy Relief

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hurricane Sandy has crippled the East Coast is this morning’s New York Time’s headline. But the story is personal for me. Chris Bonanni (@ChrisBonanni) October 29, 2012. Network for Good also has a page up of charities fundraising for Sandy Relief.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

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Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. They gave Dozer a ceremonial finisher medal and set up a fundraising webpage for Dozer. Dozer’s fundraising page raised over $25,000 for cancer research that first year. The calls and requests for interviews started pouring in.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. As each fundraiser shares their campaign with their personal network via word of mouth and online, the number of people who know about charity: water quickly multiplies.

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Actigiving—The Next Phase in the Evolution of Episodic Giving

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An analysis of the data from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, and most recently the Nepal earthquake in 2015, followed a consistent pattern of donors choosing to give online immediately following the event.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

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million to Cerritos College’s woodworking program made headlines as its largest donation to date. Despite analysis of higher education confirming that “elite” institutions do a worse job of promoting economic mobility, the fundraising gap between elite schools and community colleges continues to widen. . 3]Totals exclude U.S.

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