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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

Care2

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Why Your Nonprofit Won't Make a KONY 2012 by Jason Mogus.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. That would have been the end of the story, except the University of Maryland Cancer Center that produced the half marathon worked with the owner to tell Dozer’s story and gain priceless publicity for the event. Dozer got his own Facebook page.

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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. Identify who can be the public face of your organization––if not your founder or director, then someone else who is high-ranking and who will probably be there for a long time.

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Research Friday: Controversial Nonprofit Compensation: Are We Missing the Point?

ASU Lodestar Center

While no one supports wasteful public spending or abuse of power, the cases that grab headlines and provoke legislation are actually far from the norm. As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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Back to Blogging with a Roundup of Terrific Articles

Museum 2.0

the NEA has just released the highlights reel of the 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts , featuring increases in arts engagement via electronic media, art-making and sharing, movies, and reading, and decreases in attendance to visual and performing arts. This is mostly just a really great headline. Happy reading!'

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Actigiving—The Next Phase in the Evolution of Episodic Giving

Connection Cafe

After proposed federal budget cuts, Meals on Wheels also experienced a surge in public donations. Today’s headlines, timelines, and tweets are causing supporters to respond in record numbers for a variety of different nonprofit organizations. What we are witnessing is not a revolution but the evolution of episodic giving.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Most colleges and universities, including community colleges, fall under the category of 501(c)(3) public charities within the U.S. According to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), there are 1,044 community colleges, comprised of 936 public, 35 tribal, and 73 independent colleges. What are community colleges? .

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