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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

He has homes in Mississippi and Florida. Tale #4: Most recently we had one alumnus promise us his art collection and then went to post an article online about how he strung us along – he actually posted our email exchanges online through a local newspaper where he was a freelancer…. His return address was a NY prison. Our IT dept.

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How to Create Nonprofit VIPs with Social Media

Connection Cafe

Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University of Texas School of Advertising (Hook ‘Em) and a Mississippi native. By encouraging the hashtag in emails and ads leading up to your nonprofit event, people will be prepared to use that tag and use it often. Everybody wants to be a VIP.

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The Young and Generous: A New Research Report from Network for Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from: Just Me Robin Photos "Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?" " My first thought when I opened this email from Katya Andresen , VP Marketing, Network for Good , pointing me to some new research, " The Young and the Generous " (you have to register to download) was about fried green tomatoes.