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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. 8) Embrace Cause Awareness and Giving Days.

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

Get Fully Funded

Events are a great way to bring like-minded people together and have a good time in the name of your cause. They don’t do anything to promote your brand, your cause, or your mission. Community/Fun Events Community/Fun Events are widely promoted events that encourage people to do something active or fun while supporting your cause.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! We hope you will join us."

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Great reads from around the web on January 6th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). For one thing, they hand partial control over charity brand names and trademarks to users who are often unknown to the nonprofit groups they support.

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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Groups & Pages. Do you have a group or use a fan page to create a community space for your organization on Facebook? Here are a few things to consider: are you listing organization or sector-related events within the group or fan page? do you link to your group/fan page from your website? Delicious / Bookmarks.

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Great reads from around the web on November 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – "Nothing would have pleased my group more than finding a way for technology to advance the cause of poverty alleviation.

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