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How Online Fundraising, Gamification and Social Media Helped Raise over $2 Million Dollars in One Day

NetWits

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Big Themes for Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the Ohio Habitat for Humanity conference. Finally, you must believe that no matter what you hear on the news about the economy, there are people out there who want to support your cause and are willing to make a gift. (If Here are a few of the important ones. So start acting like it.

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Big Themes for Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the Ohio Habitat for Humanity conference. Finally, you must believe that no matter what you hear on the news about the economy, there are people out there who want to support your cause and are willing to make a gift. (If Here are a few of the important ones. So start acting like it.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

In just about any place you look today for advice on fundraising, overhead is being discussed. At the third step, nonprofits respond to this pressure in two ways: They spend too little on overhead, and they underreport their expenditures on tax forms and in fundraising materials. Summary of Findings.

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The Evolution of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising and the Rise of DIY

Connection Cafe

Digging into ten years of data from our annual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Top Thirty, I felt a bit like P2P’s version of Louis Leakey sifting through the dirt at Kenya’s Olduvai Gorge. the Pelotonia cycling event in Columbus, Ohio), Unusual (e.g. The rise of independent fundraising. The Early Days. Jude Heroes) and.