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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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5 Steps to Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign

Tech Soup

In this post, we will teach you how to effectively increase your fundraising proceeds through the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising. Setting Up Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign. Increasing your proceeds through P2P fundraising relies heavily on proper setup of your campaign. Select Your Campaign Type.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change. My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. To Mama With Love.

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Technology, Data, and Indian Nonprofits: Enabling Philanthropy

Tech Soup

For example, the Surf Excel India's Back to School Campaign reached out to needy children who go to learning centers and schools run by NGOs. Their Facebook campaign page engaged more than 800,000 fans during the campaign and sensitized them to the needs of poor children.

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Reflections on the path to social sector success

ASU Lodestar Center

There is one thing all radically successful people have in common: their ferocious drive and hunger for success makes them never give up.". campaigns in India to ease poverty, expand women''s rights, build. What is your "ferocious drive and hunger," and what is the impact that you want to channel that toward? Instructor.

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Love Thy Donor: 5 Ways to Increase Donor Retention

NonProfit Hub

If you ask them to contribute to help low-income families, don’t thank them for helping end hunger. There have been viral donation campaigns that end in somewhat of a scandal because the money people donate doesn’t always go where they think it’s going, or people just simply don’t know what an organization did with their help.

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How To Use Information You Already Have To Personalize Constituent Experiences Online

NTEN

We recently sent out a thank-you email to thank our community for successes during Hunger Action Month in September. We used a "pledge to donate garden produce" to invite those folks interested in our Teaching Garden to a special open house event at the Food Bank. How do you know what your constituents are interested in?

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