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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

Companies have customers and employees who want to give to a good cause, but they often don’t want their customers and employees to have to become familiar with another platform or leave their own website. API For Cause Marketing. KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. The Networked Nonprofit in Japan. >&# Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a nutshell, donors that received a gift, felt selfish, which in turn reduced the motivation for giving. An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education.

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Evolution of Online Donors

Care2

Some key signs that online donations have gone mainstream are the prevalence of disaster relief gifts. Only 1 in 10 gifts were given to the 9/11 disaster online vs. 1 in 3 gifts were given online/mobile to the Japan earthquake disaster. Check out these stats! What has changed for your organization over the last decade?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making Philanthropy a Lifestyle, 365.

ASU Lodestar Center

Every Christmas since I was about 9 or so, my Grandmother has asked that, instead of gifts, my cousins and I each donate to a charity and wrap up the receipts or certificates and a letter talking about the charity and what it means to us. I really should make an effort to donate more to other causes. It's a problem.