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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. What a great way to teach your children to become more thoughtful and responsible about the world we live in. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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5 Instagram Story Stickers Every Nonprofit Should Be Using

Achieve

This sticker allows you to choose the date of an event or campaign launch and add the countdown to your story. This is a great way to teach your followers about topics relating to your mission or test their knowledge. When the follower taps an answer it either turns red or green based on whether or not it was the right answer.

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Make This a More Inclusive Season of Giving: Tips for Diversity in Your End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

sgEngage

Kwanzaa teaches that giving back is a necessity, so reciprocity and philanthropy are inherent to the holiday. Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black. Bodhi Day: A Buddhist Tradition. There are 4 million Buddhist-Americans.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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And the best part of hosting a raffle is that you can combine it with another fundraising event or campaign to raise more money for your cause. Tree planting Earth Day is in April, and you can launch a tree planting campaign to celebrate with your community. Brochure fundraiser Brochure fundraisers are a great option for schools.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

CC launched Red House@Your House with a mail and e-mail campaign. Proposed solution and execution: It developed a campaign called Packed with Love ( [link] ). Results: From April 29 to June 23, 2009, CMMB secured 2,160 new e-mail addresses through the Packed with Love campaign—about a 7 percent addition to its existing database.

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Red Light, Green Light for Peer to Peer Fundraising in 2015

Connection Cafe

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! Green Light: Bring IRL Back! More often than not, one brilliant new idea is not going to fix your campaign. Don’t resent your complainers – embrace them!

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