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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education. In a nutshell, donors that received a gift, felt selfish, which in turn reduced the motivation for giving.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. Connie Reece. tools and technology.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the honor of participating on a keynote panel at Celgene Corporation’s Patient Partners annual meeting ahead of the ASCO Conference (ASCO is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, prevention and delivery of high-quality patient care).

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Local Harvest. Local Harvest. Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C).

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. Every local news station showed up. Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Local Harvest. Local Harvest. Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C).