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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also known as perks or gifts, and are used as incentives to motivate people to support a campaign. In a nutshell, donors that received a gift, felt selfish, which in turn reduced the motivation for giving. For example, a group of friends shared stories of their beard-growing journey to raise funds for breast cancer research.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

I told her that I was going to send her a little gift for her birthday, and she said, "No, no, no, no. I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place. I just don't want to have a birthday."

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