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6 Tips for Writing A Winning Crowdfunding Story

The Modern Nonprofit

This guide will help you write a winning nonprofit crowdfunding story that’ll help you raise enough funds for your organization. Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? Do you have before and after pictures you can share? An incoherent pitch that lacks focus can reflect poorly on the leaders of a nonprofit.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The post I had originally planned to publish before leaving on a plane for Tunis, Tunisia was going to be all The Women’s Enterprise for Sustainability (WES) , funded through the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform. Learn more here.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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I Hope My Kids Organize Their Own Online Fundraiser When They Are Teenagers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . Spend it together online, checking out pictures and project descriptions.". Spencer Brodsky.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. When I think rally, I picture a bunch of young kids with torn jeans, not grandmothers.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

You get her picture. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. You get her letters.