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AmFund’s Best and Worst Dates for Special Event Fundraising

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Think about this: according to the National Center for Charitable Statistics , there are 1.5 Avoid National Holidays. National holidays bring out a lot of competition! For this reason, it’s best to avoid those national holidays. The FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar this Fall. Consider your Competition.

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Benetech: President's Update

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President’s Update Fall 2011 Don’t be surprised, but we’re picking up the pace of change at Benetech! All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Is Spanish more your bag?

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