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The Power of Thank You Letters

Connection Cafe

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. passed, my mom responded by giving me the most memorable birthday gift of my life: a box of monogrammed stationary. After a few weeks (months?)

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. They beat their own record, according to Lucy Bernholz , on November 18 they used up their entire match fund in 34 minutes, processed 650 gifts in the first 17 minutes alone and 1,000 gifts in 40 minutes.