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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities. On average, we see about 50% of crowdfunding campaign funds come in this way. Even though you can get tons of awareness and traffic, they may not be the right audience that will fund your campaign.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. If fraud is suspected, the company will reverse the fund transfer. Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. You have to trust Square.

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