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New Study: How Much Money Do Peer-to-Peer Fundraisiers Raise For Charity?

Care2

This begs the question, who is really raising money? The more you ask people to suffer, the more money you will raise for charity events. This is one reason that endurance events like the Boston Marathon raise over $10M a year for charities. What events have been the most successful in raising money for your org?

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Miami, Detroit, the New York City metro/New Jersey area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, and Boston. The percentage of Americans who gave to charity in the past year has rebounded, but the percentage who volunteered has continued to decline, a Gallup poll finds. cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C.,

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. In the March Toward Equity and Justice, Foundations Need to Remember: It’s Not Our Money to Control. Can Philanthropic Money Listen? More than money: philanthropists as activists. Philanthropy for change, not charity. Race, Equity and Boston.

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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

More than one-third of charitable giving happens in the last three months of the year , and the emergence of Giving Tuesday (on November 28 this year) makes the year's end even more critical for charities. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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Great reads from around the web on July 29th

Amy Sample Ward

Social media inbound marketing for non-profits and small businesses - in Boston and beyond | Resource Superlist For Twitter Folks | John Haydon - John Haydon has put together a great resource list for using Twitter, "Over the past few months, I’ve received hundreds of questions on how to use Twitter. ."

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? My answer: yes and no. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5

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