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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

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Additionally, online donations grew by 31% from 2012 to 2013, from nearly $6.4 We also applied some additional statistical rigor used in The Blackbaud Index , which has become a trusted and valued source of nonprofit fundraising information since its launch four years ago. million to more than $8.3 million. . The regions (based on the U.S.

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From Coast to Coast: How Healthcare Organizations are Handling the Outpouring of Support and In-Kind Gifts

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This past weekend in my excess of time and growing desire to try to help , I taught myself to make face masks and donated blood – two things that a month ago I did not have on my schedule (and in the case of the mask, had never thought of before). . We are all in this together , and we will get through it because we are El Paso Strong. .

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

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We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. The line to donate blood. Not knowing what we’d find over the horizon. We were interrogated by soldiers with automatic weapons. The candlelight services.

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