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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

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We all grew up learning that it wasn’t polite to talk about money and it definitely wasn’t right to ask your friends and family for handouts. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help. It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. More about that in a minute.

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How Lessons Learned From Fighting Food Insecurity Can Help Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

This is definitely what happened for our story: we started with a simple idea and then were incredibly surprised at how helpful an extra bag of groceries could be to a lot of households. It doesn’t take a ton of education or even a degree to help people. I hope these will inspire you on your own journey of helping others!

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. There are so many resources available to ensure that your organization has a successful campaign. You know, and in that same vein, much has been made about the common pitfalls or the mistakes that your organization should avoid to ensure your success.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go.

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Create the ultimate nonprofit email newsletter

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So, let’s get your nonprofit email newsletter right so it makes your donors feel good and helps you build the loyal donor base you need to fully fund your mission. Outlook, Hotmail, or Gmail) is not set up for email marketing and has significant limitations that can hurt rather than help your email marketing efforts. ONE Success story.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When charity goes beyond helping someone in need and creates dependency and even creates disincentives to self help — we can’t afford charity like that. Another example is the people who advocated pay for performance, and then promptly decoupled pay from performance. Social enterprise is definitely not business as usual.

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