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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. Fundraisers that launch on a holiday can be playful and upbeat and are a great opportunity to raise general funds. There’s a certain yearly cadence to nonprofit fundraising.

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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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8 Social Media Ideas to Inspire Donors on GivingTuesday

Neon CRM

When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. Let donors know how much they’ve helped raise so far! Here’s a great example: “Did you know that 1 in 4 teens in the U.S.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

million: we raised X which equaled Y and resulted in Z. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Power Poetry.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Events like GivingTuesday are helping condition people to give online and raise awareness about the importance of giving. Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society. What data are you wearing and what is it showing?

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What color is the social web?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits. When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter.

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