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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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How to Get Donations for a Fundraiser: 10 Best Practices

Allegiance Group

By focusing on connecting with these donors, showing them how their investment in your cause is making a tangible impact, and offering alternative ways to get involved, you can support steady or increased retention at your organization. It may sound obvious, but many nonprofits simply never ask contributors to increase their donations.

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The 4 Words that Make Donors Forget Your Organization

Achieve

If a variation of the above sentence sounds all too familiar, your fundraising materials sound identical to that of millions of other organizations. Alternatives: Enable, provide opportunity, make possible. Alternatives (nouns): Result, power, influence, effect; (verbs) change, transform, help. Sustainable.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right? It sounds pretty cheap to you and me. So that was for me a revolutionary concept, and at the tender age of 20 I started looking abroad for places where I could go and work in agricultural development and be a part of an alternative approach to poverty.