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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. Make use of a New Donor Welcome Kit that contains sample content.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% You'll hear from Marnie Webb of Caravan Studios, who will talk about childhood hunger and resources to reduce the hunger gap in your community, including WhyHunger.org and the Range app. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). They work in tandem with a nationwide network of member food banks in the fight to end hunger. Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks.

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10 Year End Fundraising Mistakes to Avoid

Get Fully Funded

A message like “Hunger knows no holiday” used consistently will motivate people to give to a food bank, especially after they see it a couple of times. Instead, ask people to give to save a dog, tutor a child, or feed a homeless person. Spend the time to carefully craft what you want to say, then consistently use that language.

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Great reads from around the web on March 17th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Donation Forms Dissected: Where We’re Winning & Losing in Online Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Based on these 10 organizations and the much larger sample size we’ve seen in 2019, here’s where the nonprofit sector is winning and losing in online fundraising. Big buttons, white space, and colored text keep Feeding America ’s mobile donation form feeling fresh and clean. Was the thank you page well designed and celebratory ?

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If

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