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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? This form of fundraising is called peer-to-peer fundraising , and it's not just for kids. But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise.

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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

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Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Haymakers for Hope: Haymakers Harriers. Offer incentives that align with your mission and feel authentic to your organization. .

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

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Recently, Brock Warner (Senior Manager, Fundraising at War Child) and I hosted a webinar regarding end of year fundraising for nonprofits —the things we need to stop doing and things we should be doing instead. In terms of fundraising, print newsletters don’t tend to directly raise much money (though I’m sure there are exceptions).

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

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Stories are also integral parts to any nonprofit organizations and particularly when it comes to fundraising. Time is money. After all, we’re going to be the ones who are holding the money soon. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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mobile banking service is the most popular way to transfer money via. For nonprofits working on fundraising - Comic Relief in the United Kingdom raised over £7m from text message donations in 2011. Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. According to him it costs too much money.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) What will LWB be using the money for this year?

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