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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students. Or all three?

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. Note from Beth: My friend Porter Gale has just launched a new book called “ Your Network is Net Worth.” Her book shares the secrets of how to do this. 5 Reasons Why Should Make Mentoring A Priority by Porter Gale.

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Writing for Fundraising: Fundraising Appeal Writing Tips for Non-Profit Professionals

The Storytelling Non-profit

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. It’s the difference between seeing cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people on your to do list and seeing create guest list, send invitations, collect rsvps and food allergy info, create a menu, etc.

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

Get Fully Funded

For example, if your photo and accompanying story show a young person in your program delivering groceries to an older person, go with, “Older people count on our students to bring their groceries.” Mary fell in love with Nancy Drew books as a child and is excited to see her students improve their reading skills.

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50 Social Media Content Ideas

Connection Cafe

Books needed for elementary students). . $5 to feed a family dinner) Event registration/Ticket sales Ask for specific in-kind donation (ex. Volunteering Online volunteer form Open committee roles Next volunteer opportunity. Advocacy Recent legislation affecting your cause Contact your representative Voter registration.

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Three Year-End Annual Fundraising Tips You Haven’t Thought About

BoardAssist

Call your donors and thank them for everything they have done to help the (children, students, elderly, poor, hungry, prisoners, sick etc). Leah Eustace ACFRE shared this cool info in her webinar recently. Get your board members, volunteers, staffers or even clients involved. Make it fun. They’ll come if you feed them supper!).

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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

For every four monthly gifts of $25, we are able to enroll one student from that list into our Learning for Literacy program – empowering them with vital knowledge and skills to change their futures! Be ready to review monthly donations every month to see which ones didn’t go through and call them to get updated credit card info.

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