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Father’s Day Fundraising: 9 Ideas That Will Get People Donating

Whole Whale

Father’s Day is a great day to plan a fun fundraising campaign to honor the Dads in our community. Giving your supporters a way to celebrate their Dad and give back can be a wonderful tradition to start in a community. Find a way to connect your donors to the cause they’re supporting. Use social media.

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Case Study: Community-Based Fundraising

NTEN

These may be easy to execute, as they don’t require much planning, yet they are far less personal than community-based fundraisers, providing less of an opportunity to increase awareness about your cause. Case Study: The Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community. Highmark Inc.

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. The well water in the remote mountain community of Prescott where she lives contains elevated levels of lead, arsenic, and manganese. It can be something as simple as an opening like this (this is fiction, by the way!):

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Kimberly Wilson, Tranquility du Jour: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Through volunteering, donating classes to community raffles, and holding events to raise money for various causes, I've always hoped that I was planting seeds of happiness for others. Nothing could be more rewarding! And, to top it off, I'm obsessed with pigs.

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Do Your Homework First, Write Second—Examples of Successfully Funded Grant Proposals

NonProfit Hub

This next proposal, written by Julie Colaw, was fully funded through the West Virginia NASA Space Grant Consortium. Centerville Community Center. With the linked example, Diana Anderson and Pineville Independent Schools in Pineville, KY shows us that grant proposals can be short and sweet while being effective.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

See3

It’s called mountaintop removal and it is the most common mining in West Virginia and Appalachia generally. I happened to have been starting my tenure in the engineering community when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) was passed under President Carter. It is just what the name implies.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. They face the possibility of losing their home when redevelopment threatens.