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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

This means that through most of the year, the fundraising beat sounds more like a faint pulse. Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. But you know that your need for funds is year-round.

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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities. But getting to a health centre isn’t as easy as it sounds when you’re talking about remote communities. Every year we vaccinate half the world’s children.

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Things We Like (November 2014)

NTEN

NASA is on Soundcloud , so you can listen to the sounds of space, too. And don’t let your second (or third) childhood pass you by online! In honor of the ESA’s Philae probe landing on a comet (NO BIG DEAL OR ANYTHING), xkcd creator Randall Munroe has given us this commemorative cartoon version of the sights of Philae in space.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. If you’re reading this, you’re likely either: A—Hoping to be chosen for this incredible program. Aiming to learn more about what it offers and hear the real experience of a fellow. .

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Three Tips for Common-Sense Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines common sense as “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.” Perhaps one challenge is that “sound and prudent” decision-making is rather subjective. Common sense is very uncommon. Horace Greeley, editor). Gertrude Stein, author). Admit mistakes quickly.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like science fiction, but let me share a few examples I heard about at the conference. One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. And, this month, Sam is raising money to support a new documentary called Wisconsin Rising on the kickstarter platform. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding.