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How to Go From ‘Wish List’ to ‘Donation List’

NonProfit Hub

Keep the items affordable: Requesting new computers might be necessary, but if you are asking one person to donate $1000 for a new laptop might not be realistic. Use your storytelling skills! Other items are specific to the needs and likes of certain apes, so it allows the donors to make a more personal connection.

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

Get Fully Funded

If you provide opportunities for children, show children getting opportunities they might not otherwise have. Many of your visitors will find you on their mobile phone, not their laptop. Bring your website to life with compelling storytelling and lead every nonprofit website visitor to an engaging donate page.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

Storytelling with Mobile Video. Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. Tan Vu said that families often elect to take the computers and Mobile Beacon devices with them when they leave, once they find out how useful broadband and computers are for their children.

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Message It: How to Make the Most of Your New Facebook Page

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s about 50% of the screen on my huge iMac screen, which means it could cover up to 80% of the vertical space of the average laptop. If you’re dead set on featuring a call to action, this is how I’d do it (not recommended for children!). That doesn’t leave much space to view other elements on the page, so you have to make it good.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

I was flying into DFW and I had my laptop out and I was preparing a presentation and I was wondering, you know, “Do I know what I’m getting into?” a small nonprofit who serves children with disability, raising $91,000 on a regional giving day. That was my first day officially working at a nonprofit.

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