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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Third, a pledge called " Bakul-Library " is definitely one of my favorite stories. It's awesome that they used PledgeBank, that they got over 1000 people to act (and to interact), and that they built a new library in India this past April because of it. 2) Tell a story. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

Tech Soup

Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page. This gives people a chance to get their story out, and has a huge effect on engagement. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR.

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Punching Up Your Action Alerts and Online Fundraising Appeals - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

As communicators who are fighting to change the world, we need to write passionately and tell stories that connect to people in order to motivate them to take action and donate some of their hard earned money. Moms Rising Moms Rising continues to do a great job at speaking to moms and sharing meaningful stories in a very frank way.

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