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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? But, on the top of the chart: a compelling cause. In the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R Strategies, it’s easy to see what a compelling cause may be to Millennial donors: disaster.

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Strategies to Manage an Online Crisis

Care2

For example, when a consumer of the ice-cream brand Wilcoxson's asked, on Wilcoxson’s Facebook page, if the gelatin in their cookies and cream ice-cream contained pork, their CEO responded on Facebook with “we don’t deliver outside of Montana and certainly not in Pakistan.” What is the best way to reach you?”

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

I define AP as philanthropy that is primarily concerned with getting donors and supporters to pay attention to a certain cause. As a result, they often fail to notice organizations or causes that are not constantly in their faces in a flashy and memorable way. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

serve the public. For those nonprofits working on political engagement issues/activism - When media bans were put in place at the end of Musharraf’s rule in Pakistan SMSall , or as its founder Umar Saif, says “Twitter for SMS,” or “Twitter for. established groups on SMSall in Pakistan. increase in a.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. .&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report | Nonprofit.

sgEngage

The Health, Public?society Disaster Giving Trends 7% of organizations received contributions for the Haitian earthquake relief, and 3% received donations for Pakistan flood relief. society Benefit, and Religion sub-sectors, a larger percentage of organizations reported a decrease in charitable contributions than reported an increase.