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Why Your Nonprofit Needs Peer-to-Peer Fundraising (and How to Use It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The snowball effect—if your event is fun, participants will come back year after year (along with new supporters). Below, we’ll show you how to build and incorporate a peer-to-peer campaign and share a few fun ideas to try, but first, we’ll explain what sets this form of social fundraising apart. Sounds good, right?

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18 Successful (Yet Untapped) Fall Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

Now is the time to take a good look at your plans for the final months of the year and find a fun, unique fall fundraiser that will make you and your donors feel comfortable and supported. To make it even more fun, consider having a local celebrity (i.e. The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. Apple is a major donor with a pledge of $100 million. Gaming for Good.

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Cake in Face

Connection Cafe

All proceeds raised during Movember go to the causes it supports, specifically the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG (read this article if you’d like to learn more about where the money goes ).

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? Several of her regular readers including Deb Roby have pledged to match her donations to their favorite charity. July: Ah, those summer months when we spend hours outside in the sun and fun.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming. They will be developing virtual pledge cards, sponsorships, teams, and other features.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. 2 Comments | by Share Article in Misc.

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