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5 Strategies to Implementing a Successful Employee Giving Campaign

Connection Cafe

Tip: A ratio of one champion to every 20-30 staff members is best. Make it Fun! Attendance prizes can lend some fun and encouragement. Suggest fun games for departments. Recruit a champion from each department, from your hospital’s service lines to HR and development. Work the Plan! Hold an inspiring kickoff.

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People are Ready for a Vision-led Movement

Have Fun - Do Good

They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the growing green economy to lift its low-income residents out of poverty. are going to make Oakland the new Silicon Valley for green capital."

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Harry: A Green Geek. Interview with Jonathon Colman.

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Notes from Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp

Have Fun - Do Good

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1. There is a growing movement focusing on building the local, green economy as an alternative to the transnational corporation.

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Pandemic-Proofing: 30 Fundraising Ideas During COVID

Qgiv

If you’re planning a 5K, fun run, or walk, you can give your participants the option to complete the event in their own time rather than having to set aside a single day. During a certain period of time or up to a certain amount, your sponsor will match every donation made, usually at a one-to-one ratio. Virtual 5K/fun run/walk.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? Going to be a fun one. However, trust is built over time, and you know this with your friends and people you’ve met. She’s got some cool stories to tell.

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