article thumbnail

Making #GivingTuesday Count: New Mexico State University’s Story

Connection Cafe

One day can make a difference and New Mexico State University (NMSU) can prove it! After a hugely successful Giving Tuesday campaign in 2015, we’re excited to share our “Four ‘T’s of Giving Tuesday” with the keys to our success and some actionable takeaways you can implement at your institution. We raised a grand total of $5.7

article thumbnail

January Cause Awareness: National Mentoring Month

Qgiv

National Mentoring Month is a month-long campaign run by the MENTOR organization and its affiliates across the country. MENTOR launched National Mentoring Month in 2002 as a way to unify and expand mentoring efforts, as well as raise awareness about youth mentoring in the United States. About National Mentoring Month.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

3 Weeks Until #GivingTuesday! Is Your Organization Ready?

Connection Cafe

Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary more than tripled year-over-year donations on #GivingTuesday by being very specific: they let supporters know they needed to raise money for new chairs for the nuns. Read more about NMSU’s strategy and success: “ Making #GivingTuesday Count: New Mexico State University’s Story.”

article thumbnail

2 Weeks Until Giving Tuesday! Is Your Organization Ready?

sgEngage

Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary more than tripled year-over-year donations on Giving Tuesday a few years ago by being very specific: they let supporters know they needed to raise money for new chairs for the nuns. ” Identify matching donation opportunities. ” Organize peer-to-peer fundraising.

article thumbnail

Do * Good Blankets

Have Fun - Do Good

Project Sweet Dreams is a community based Roots and Shoots campaign organized by a friend of mine, Debra Rosenman, to raise awareness about biomedical lab chimps. The campaign is organizing schools in the Santa Fe area to donate 600 blankets to the Save the Chimps (STC) sanctuary in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

article thumbnail

Demographics Are Destiny: How and Why to Diversify Your Staff Now!

NTEN

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. And, in Maryland, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Florida, the percentage of non-Hispanic whites has fallen below 60 percent.

article thumbnail

Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

Have Fun - Do Good

While I was at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in March, I got to hear Tim Fullerton from Oxfam talk about how they used YouTube and other social web tools as part of their campaign. One of the campaigners was working with Ethiopian bloggers and asked them to embed the video on their sites, which they did. They did a protest.