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When Fundraising Disaster Strikes, What Should You Do?

Tech Soup

" His nonprofit has an annual budget of under $35,000, almost all of it raised on the Give Local America Big Day of Giving in Sacramento. The nonprofit had raised about $11,000 in donations before the Kimbia website failure. It ended up raising $39,000. Disaster Planning and Recovery.

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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next week on March 1-2, the First 5 California and the Water Cooler Joint Conference will take place in Sacramento. Does crowdsourcing questions — can that raise awareness about the issue, inspire a broader range or or quality of questions, or otherwise contribute to a productive conversation? Stay tuned.

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Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camps in Berkeley and Brooklyn

Have Fun - Do Good

After the Boot Camp in 2005, I wrote up notes from the five sessions I attended: Strategic Communications Planning, Building the Local Green Economy, The Seven Things You Need to Know to Raise Money, Community Organizing and Action, and Volunteerism Recruitment and Management, which you can read here.

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Giving Days and Beyond the Dollars: What Have We Learned?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tech failure that disrupted the national Give Local America Day fundraising campaign in May 2016 raised a big question for community foundations hosting giving days: What can they do differently to ensure smooth sailing in the future? Dana Rinderknect, Director of Online Giving for Colorado Gives has gone through the exercise.