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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. 1) Implement Donation Page Best Practices.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Donate hygiene, cleaning, or non-perishable food items. Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families. Donate clothing and household goods. Learn more about Boulanger Initiative. 500 Women Scientists. Impacting: Science.

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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. They are also more likely to donate to a nonprofit directly from a social networking site or through text than any other generation. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. I asked her, “If you could give a donation to any charity to support whatever cause you feel is important, what would it be?”

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Way to accept donations or money from the event. List of nonprofit donation platforms. Take advantage of one of those random holidays to foster some recurring donors: Email your one-time donors from the last year with an invitation to repeat their donation. Donations for Dad. And now, for the ideas: 1. Repeat donors.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Charity: Water. Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. Donate Life America. Annual report template. Download Template. Power Poetry.

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Private Foundations Are Now Eligible for Citrix Online Donations

Tech Soup

case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive donated video conferencing, online collaboration, and remote desktop solutions from the Citrix Online Donation Program. In addition to the Citrix program, there are many other donation programs on TechSoup that are open to private foundations.