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University of Oregon receives $500 million for Knight Campus

Candid

The University of Oregon has announced a second $500 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight in support of the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. This gift allows us to achieve our larger vision in a very compressed timeline. The Knight Campus enrolls students who are?pursuing

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5 priceless gifts board members can give their nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

And they can start by giving their nonprofit these five priceless gifts: Permission to talk about real costs. Stop telling your executive director to lower the salary they can offer a talented development director, not to spend money on technology, or to use volunteers when they need experts. But don’t just stop there.

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Preventing Fraud on our Online Giving Pages

Robert Weiner

Kirsten Williams , Associate Director, Gift Services. University of Oregon Foundation. The credit card scam/fraud attempt that many nonprofits have experiences starts with a very large online gift from an unknown donor. For example, if you tend to get 40 gifts overnight, you may see 400 or even 4000.).

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Interview with NTEN's Content Manager: Steph Routh

NTEN

What are some of the lessons you''ve learned as the former Executive Director of Oregon Walks that you''ll be bringing to NTEN? Being an executive director is a remarkable experience. It''s a position that exposes your weaknesses to you in no uncertain terms, which is a great gift. By the way, thanks, team!

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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant

Get Fully Funded

For example, a horse rescue may be located in Massachusetts, while the virtual assistant lives in Oregon. But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. GIFT MANAGEMENT.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Do a walk-slash-hike for charity: Choose the tallest peak in your town or neighborhood (unless you live in Washington or Oregon, then find something a bit more manageable). Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name.

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. She is the founder and executive director of the Meta-Activism Project. I also have a small pile of books sitting on my desk that I wanted to blog about. The book is available on Amazon.

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