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112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail

BoardAssist

Don’t use a lot of photography and fancy layout in your letter or accompanying materials. see the reader’s profile above) (~Jeff Brooks). The average age of a donor in a “house file” is 67. Pretend you are writing to your grandmother. The most generous group of donors are the older ladies. people are being helped.”.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I was very young, I started programming BAT files and then moved on to ???programming t allow photography during concerts, so it would work against our own policy to feature fan photos taken during concerts (which, as you can imagine, would be the majority of fan entries). That interest of programming started at an early age.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. We’d been using Facebook for awhile for groups, but then I happened to read about apps, file it away, and then a week later it came up in conversation. We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere.

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Designing for Good: Central Park Conservancy

Connection Cafe

Print design, visual design, graphic design, illustration, product photography, park kiosks, mobile apps, and all things webby are managed by their team. You can send updates or questions about a project to your team and have all the communication and files in one place to avoid searching for information buried in emails.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One feature I liked was that Pathable has an API for creating accounts, so I was able to roll that into our conference registration on our drupal site, and it populated their Pathable account with their organization, blog url, delicious url, flickr url, twitter url, etc (if they had added that to their drupal profile on NMC’s site).

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. In 2001, I began photographing. Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool?