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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. When it comes time to put the idea into practice, the qualities that enable someone to be a founder can manifest as micromanagement or frustration, especially when others cannot see the details as clearly as you can.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

Get Fully Funded

It’s the digital face of your organization and where many people interact with you for the first time. Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. An alternative is to use stock photos, but this too brings challenges. Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. However, the true genius of GoFundMe may have been its timing.

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8 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Advance Your Mission

Connection Cafe

Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . By the time your auctioneer reaches the $100 donation, everyone in the room should be able to give. Alternatively, allowing a smaller number of raffle tickets with a higher price will increase the donor’s odds.

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How Independent Fundraising Momentum is Reshaping Traditional P2P

Connection Cafe

Brandon made his next major foray into crowdfunding a few months later with an appeal to support childhood cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Within a matter of weeks this campaign raised $3.8 This was a socially influential individual acting independent of a charity to fundraise for a cause meaningful to him.

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Could You Split Your Membership?

Museum 2.0

Families like the idea that museum memberships offer a low-cost alternative to recreational activities like the movies, which cost money every time you go. Every time a visitor signs up for a mailing list or leaves a comment at the front desk, he expresses his affinity for the institution.

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Museum 2.0 at ASTC: Come Tour the Best Tech Museum in LA!

Museum 2.0

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 The logistics: This outing will be on SUNDAY, OCT 14 from noon until 3:15; we will make it back in time for the 3:30 sessions. will be there!

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