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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Tech Soup

Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? This form of fundraising is called peer-to-peer fundraising , and it's not just for kids. Assess Yourself.

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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

Connection Cafe

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. I haven’t seen any data that shows a correlation to the kind of organization and the amount raised at year end.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Overall, I want to make sure that we’re showing our supporters what we do and then opening up the stage for them to discuss.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We had our members email the articles, via Collactive (which steps you through the process), and quickly raised them to the "most emailed" spot on the home page. So in that case, we got a two-for-one -- both raising awareness of the issue and flooding a decisionmaker with an important column. Thanks Ivan.

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

Connection Cafe

Stories are also integral parts to any nonprofit organizations and particularly when it comes to fundraising. How do we raise awareness about our unique stories to a generation of naturally attention-deficit individuals? Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

Have Fun - Do Good

April 6-13, 2008 human rights groups like Genocide Intervention Network , STAND , Amnesty International , and Save Darfur are using the Global Week for Darfur to raise awareness about the continuing violence and need for action. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can.

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