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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

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Peer fundraising is the best way to raise money from this new generation of supporters, and a few organizations are already harnessing this strategy. LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). Shockingly, LiNK actually raises most of their funding from donors under the age of 30.

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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

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Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. The organization ended up raising $12,000 on Giving Tuesday – a modest amount, to be sure. One of them involved. This year, LiNK tried something different for Giving Tuesday.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

" Offering direct support to dissidents goes beyond this kind of slacktivism, according to Ben-Horin: "That's sharply raising the ante from the volunteer’s perspective. " He adds that while Movements.org is currently crowdsourcing skills, he would like to have a funding capability like Kickstarter eventually.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education.

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