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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To help now, please use the Donate Form on Benetech''s website and give whatever you can. The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We decided to run a six-week campaign so that our fundraisers had plenty of time to sign up and reach out to their connections for donations. Email is still the best way to get donations. A huge majority of the donations I received came from friends of my family, and I didn’t even directly ask them. Get social!

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

We’ve got a personal outreach to 2,000 and we’ve got a strategy to convert 50% of them into donors, now we’re talking about having 600 or 1,000 people donate to a single campaign. Sending to your email list where only 1% donate is not going to get you a successful campaign. Build a school in Zimbabwe. Engagement.

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How to Use Causes for Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal

NTEN

And in 2010, online giving is expected to bring in more donations than ever, after having seen a 46% increase in online revenue between 2008 and 2009. Facebook users are more motivated to donate to specific projects rather than general fundraising appeals. Fundraising Projects. Here are some sample bulletins: [link].

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

CH: How much money can I donate? CH: Our headquarters office here in Oakland is staffed entirely by volunteers, and I always like people to know that of all of the foundation dollars, and donations and grant money that comes in, I divert 94% of it to our in-country operations. What is the question you wish people would ask you?

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Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. Eighteen Global Fund for Women grantees are profiled in the book, and Gianturco is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention.