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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Fall has arrived, and with it comes fundraising season. Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wisconsin Rising trailer and Kickstarter Campaign from samayfield on Vimeo. In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. A Guest Post by Sam Mayfield. January 21.

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Scholarships in the Time of COVID-19: A Conversation with UW Madison

Connection Cafe

Their fundraising team got to work right away raising emergency funds to help students who were impacted financially by the pandemic. Once that money was raised, Keith and his team began making awards and disbursing the money to their students.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. As a native Texan going to graduate school in Wisconsin, I signed up on a sunny September day not only to support the cause, but also because it seemed like something that would make for a good story one day. But here I am, still alive.

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#CelebrateAdobeCC — It's a Wrap!

Tech Soup

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Thanks to TechSoup, we're able to save time and money, putting more of our budget and efforts toward the artists our audiences want to see on stage."

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“Getting Real” with Donors: Creating a Culture of Philanthropy for Securing Unrestricted Gifts

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Too often nonprofits cloak fundraising for general operating funds with fundraising in the name of a new building or a new educational program.

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Fall Webinar Series: Effective Nonprofit Management

Tech Soup

In this webinar, learn how to build a writing culture at your organization, and how you can use writing to shape images, raise money, inspire people, and influence opinion. One-On-One Fundraising - Why Personal Matters. Nonprofits can spend hundreds of hours writing grants and organizing fundraisers. September 20, 2011 2:00 p.m.