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How to Show Visual Impact on Your Online Donation Forms

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As with one-time gifts, the image should relate to the giving plan and a brief description of what the recurring gift provides. Let’s look at some examples: Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance. Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance added images to their giving plans to show visual impact of a recurring gift.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

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For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required. You can either file Form 1023 or 1023-EZ.

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Emily McKhann: Making Time For What Matters

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The “gifts” can be hilarious andevery year has its surprises. The impetus for their weekend away was that Erin had cancer, andit had metastasized. At the time, she thought their lists would sitin a file for when Peyton was older. At the holidays, the grown-ups in my family have a "whiteelephant" exchange. Tweet Share.

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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

If you're most concerned about national and global issues, like worldwide hunger or cancer, look for nonprofits that are equipped for such a large challenge. The organization's IRS Form 990, which must be filed by all organizations that claim tax-exempt nonprofit status, can usually be found with a Google search.

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Social Media Lessons from 4 Generations of Canadian Donors

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Social media has already shown that it is paying off for many nonprofits, but in a new way – not through direct gifts, but by deepening relationships with supporters, by empowering evangelists and much more. To view engaging sharable Pinterest boards, check out the Canadian Cancer Society and Plan Canada. Let’s dig deeper, shall we?

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Mobilize Those Mobile Eyes Again

Connection Cafe

But there are also services that will tell you which of the current phone numbers you have on file for your constituents are mobile numbers. For what it is worth, David Balcom of American Cancer Society shared that the number of donations given through a mobile browser doubled after ACS launched a mobile-optimized version of their site.

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Life after Common Ground: Part 5 – Conga Composer

Judi Sohn

It’s what I used at Fight Colorectal Cancer to generate our acknowledgement letters out of Common Ground. But did you know that you can use Conga to generate a fully formatted Word file of your monthly donors, let’s say for your newsletter or annual report? I maintain the Salesforce database for my synagogue.

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