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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

CauseVox

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. Some of these campaigns have been more traditional—such as an online peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, while others break the mold. That’s why you should try incorporating more events into your charity’s annual fundraising plan.

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6 Reasons SEO Is Important to Nonprofits and Why

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Maryanne Dersch , a speaker, coach, and creator of the Superstar Fundraising Academy. According to Charity Navigator, online giving increased 23 percent in 2017 and monthly online giving grew 40 percent. Making it easy for donors to find our website is crucial to fundraising.

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How You Can Help Haiti Relief Efforts

Qgiv

Verify that the nonprofit you’re giving to is legitimate and trustworthy by searching for them on sites like Charity Navigator , GuideStar , or TEOS (tax-exempt organization search). Future Forward for Haiti works in the remote villages of Trois Mares, Chapottin, and St. Louis d’Ayiti.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The husband portrayed themselves as major philanthropists from St. Louis and he also claimed to be a great friend of the late Yul Brynner and had started up a foundation that carried Yul Brynner’s name with several million in assets. True, I found some photos of the two of them at a black tie gala in St.

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Top 10 Most Generous Cities in the U.S.

Care2

The average gift size remained steady in 2011 at about $65 with more than $435M donated to charities. Convio analyzed cities with total population of more than 100,000 based on per capita online giving and the total amount donated through the Convio platform. To 10 Most Generous Cities. Seattle, WA. Alexandria, VA. Washington, DC.

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HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to FourSquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I don’t think your Twitter Followers care much that you “Checked-in&# at Starbucks, unless your organization is having a fundraiser at Starbucks. That said, I have configured that none of my FourSquare activity be automatically sent out as Tweets under “ Settings &# and I would suggest you do the same. Enter the address.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Successfully Going Mobile

Amy Sample Ward

St Louis Volunteen won, two Millennials are the ones that developed it – geolocation app to find volunteering opportunities, find contests, find things tied to schools, and sharing on social media. Large scale fundraising events? Many Millennials have not yet chosen their life-long charities of choice.

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