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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. There’s a certain yearly cadence to nonprofit fundraising. This means that through most of the year, the fundraising beat sounds more like a faint pulse.

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Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through this scholarship, Bookshare will donate one new membership every Valentine’s Day to a person with financial need. She said her primary motivation when starting out with Bookshare was to help provide timely books for young adult and teen readers. She therefore set out to make many more books available to young readers.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. She also started a community garden that holds events with food and literacy programs. Copel has won a number of awards for her service to the City of New Orleans.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin. HART for Animals.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

Get Fully Funded

Well, fundraising is about giving people the opportunity to capture that good feeling by donating money to a cause they believe in. Many people are HAPPY to give if they understand how their donation will make a difference and if you properly inspire them to give. We love the good feeling we get when we do something for others, right?