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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

And I couldn’t help think to myself, “oh, so all we need to do to raise funds for a great cause is get a celebrity? A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. But, on the top of the chart: a compelling cause. Both of them involved celebrities.

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A Free Agent and Nonprofits Working Together To End Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A free agent is a person (many times a GenY, but not always ) who is a passionate about a social cause, but is working outside of a nonprofit organization to organize , mobilize , raise money , and engage with others. We are also seeing the rise of “ non-state actors &# doing humanitarian work in places like Pakistan.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) There are a variety of platforms for crowd funding, including Causes , Crowdrise , Razoo , GiveZooks and others. 2) Crowd Creation. Crowdsourcing Resources.

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