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The Surprising Truth About Online Donors and Offline Fundraising

NetWits

The Importance of Moving Donors Offline. Yet one of the most striking findings in our 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report was that, in aggregate, online-acquired donors still have much higher cumulative value over the long term than traditional, mail-acquired donors.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy talked about how technology is driving the shift to a social economy and picked out a few themes, pointing out it is not the technology itself but how we use it. She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data.

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Millennial Innovators: Meet Ecoviate, GiveMob, and Scholarships Expanding Education (SEE)

NTEN

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. apps funding giving Millennials philanthropy startup' Already rooting for one of these?

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Tips on how to mobilize your supporters

Care2

. • JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. Also, download this free flyer on 12 steps to mobilize your cause.

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Facebook ROI: Not Just a Myth

NTEN

By Heather Shelby, Online Membership Associate, Environmental Defense Fund. After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. After all, we know that offline donors who are on our email list have a higher average gift.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. About 79 percent of the funds spent or committed by the American Red Cross have been for food and water; 18 percent have been for shelter; and the rest have been for health and family services.&# Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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