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Why Your Giving Day is Your Secret Weapon

M+R

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. The survey groups were members of the board, Museum donors, and the general public.

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YouthBuild Boston: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. YouthBuild Boston's Work. YouthBuild Boston works with inner city at-risk teenagers to do real-world construction projects.

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NetSquared Local Events: Week of June 24

Tech Soup

What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Boston, MA: Turning Traditional Donors Into Online Evangelists. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Interested in learning more? Join Manchester’s Steven Flower or Burlington’s Amanda Levinson this week to find a cure for what ails you.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The following is a compilation of online discussions of faux donors trying to scam colleges, schools, and nonprofits. Rodriguez at Boston University, and Kristi Worden at Augustana College. The donor promised his patent would completely fund the university, wipe out the national debt, and make America the happiest place on Earth.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. Fort Collins, Colorado: Tech4Good in Fort Collins: Donor CRMs.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Building an Effective Data Culture at Your Nonprofit. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Can Appmaker Help You? Feeling overwhelmed?