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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The inspiration for this program came from a random act of kindness at a Trader Joe’s last year that leveraged $24,000 donation to a local food bank. Touched by Jenni’s honesty, Carolee matched the $93 and again queried her Facebook friends where to donate the $186. Carolee Hazard, a complete stranger, paid her $207 bill.

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How to Make Facebook Fundraising Work For You

Media Cause

And, interesting tidbit, Facebook announced that in 2020, women created twice as many fundraisers on Facebook as men and made twice as many donations, with 64% of total funds raised coming from women. We leveraged the Facebook Post Donate Button and saw average gift revenue more than double from Giving Tuesday benchmarks.

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Diversity in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

Because nonprofit organizations rely so heavily on the ability to connect to local communities in order to generate precious donations and grants, it is vital to their continued relevancy as change-agents to be able to connect to diverse communities. in History from San Jose State University in 2017. He earned a B.A.

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A Couple of Do Good iPhone Apps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. I had a lot of fun playing with the app over the holidays and generation donations to a handful of charities. Recently, Heather Mansfield at the Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Goodbye Checkbook, Hello Tablet: Fundraising Goes Mobile - The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site

AFP Blog

Goodbye Checkbook, Hello Tablet: Fundraising Goes Mobile - The Network: Cisco''s Technology News Site : At a recent fundraising party in San Jose Calif., Host Mark Fordyce was offering guests a chance to make a donation to his wife Kirsten''s Avon Breast Cancer Walk.

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7 Ways You Can Connect at #16NTC

Tech Soup

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. Not receiving TechSoup donations yet? at our donor partner Adobe's San Jose office. Activating the Advocates at Adobe's San Jose office.

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

." The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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