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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

Our work spans tiny nonprofits serving in Mali and Haiti, requiring a minimal financial commitment, to New York-based nonprofit household names that request significant funding from their board members, and everything in between.

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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

To be clear, though, this is a fundraising message. My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. The market in Kayes I'd like to tell you why I believe technology can change the world. > Please make a gift to support nonprofit technology in 2012.

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Sparked, Micro-Volunteering Network, Has Volunteers Standing By For Your Nonprofit’s Next Small Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s no secret that times are tough in the fundraising world. Sometimes, the best way to fundraise is simply to save money. A logo design for Helen Keller International’s new malnutrition screening campaign in Mali. Interested? The easiest way to do this, of course, is through volunteers.

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(Now's the Time to) Bring the Mobile Web into Your Organization

NTEN

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by.

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Happy Holidays!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I know we will be revamping their fundraising and helping them set up a new website in the next few months. So how can we not be excited to work them? Last time I checked, that goal hadn't been quite reached yet, so I guess we'll be busy in 2008 as well. We've also been hard at work on several new projects we're hoping to launch in February.

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What Would Homer Simpson Do? Your Messages and the Emerging Science of Behavioral Economics

NTEN

Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. Nonprofit marketers and fundraisers often base important strategic and tactical choices on thinking grounded in established theories and practices, including direct marketing and economics. The answer? And you can too.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

Have Fun - Do Good

In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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