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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

Tech Soup

Expert guests include: Jody Dilday ( @jdilday ), executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas ( @SPSFNWA ), has spent her career raising awareness and support for nonprofit organizations. Wednesday, March 21, 11 a.m. Pacific time. Hashtag: #NPLive. RSVP to join the live show.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Although data from institutional philanthropy is still incomplete, there is enough information to indicate a considerable decline from $76 billion in collective funding in 2018. . Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. Build a school in Zimbabwe. Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes WHY CROWDFUNDING IS VITAL. Even email is falling off.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

It is great when people know that their money is going directly to the journalists, directly funding somebody's life and somebody's well being. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. We don't take government or corporate dollars for any of our funding through grants, or anything else.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Molly came and spoke to our entire company about their programs, where funding was most needed, and even had us perform some soccer drills they do with their kids. They are an awesome organization that was founded by two professional “futball” players from Zimbabwe. This year, they’ve selected Grassroot Soccer.

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How to Use Causes for Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal

NTEN

The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada. And Camfed raised $4,500 to build a roof on a school in Malawi , then turned around and funded another $3,386 project to give shoes to schoolgirls in Zimbabwe. .

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