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How to Make This Your Most Successful Library Giving Day

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Library Giving Day is an international one-day fundraising event that could significantly boost your library’s fundraising potential. How can you plan a more successful Library Giving Day? In 2022 alone, Library Giving Day reported 12,168 total donations adding up to $1.6 Check out what other libraries have done.

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Nonprofit Advocacy Can Be a Force Multiplier for Social Change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our longest-term donor, the Skoll Foundation , went so far as to introduce me to a DC-based advocacy firm. Multiple senators called the secretary of education asking for explanations of how earmarked funding ended up in the hands of “nobodies from California” who had never lobbied Congress. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e., Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Bake sale Bake sales are always a delightful way to raise funds for your organization. Ask local bakeries to offer sweets to sell to further motivate donors to purchase a treat. You can also put out a donation jar for donors who want to support your cause but don’t want to purchase an item.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

I had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the new Kansas City Digital Inclusion Fund. I say thorny because despite the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding awarded by the U.S. The Community Driven Fund. The fund is being administrated by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Dunn Construction.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

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This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. Grant Proposals : AI writers can help nonprofits create persuasive grant proposals that secure funding and support for their initiatives. Build a model trained on your founder and then have it summarize articles with opinions.

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