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Great reads from around the web on March 17th

Amy Sample Ward

10 Questions for Camfed — Camfed International – Jordan Ridge and Kristy Green will be traveling to northern Zambia this week to meet students, filmakers, and young entrepreneurs in the communities where Camfed works – and you can go with them! Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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How To Increase Brand Recognition And Fundraising With Set It And Forget It Approach: A Step-By-Step Guide To Creating And Selling Merchandise Online

Bloomerang

Offer discounts and promotions As with any commerce, offering discounts and promotions can be a great way to drive sales and generate buzz about your products. Ask that board members share new products with their contacts.

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A Nice Holiday Gift for School Kids Everywhere

Forum One

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. Okay, maybe that's not what you guessed, and maybe it's not in a literal vegetable form, but on December 13, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. You don't need to open your wallet because each install generates a small amount of revenue to Save the Rain Forest. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

generators. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters.

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

The revenue generated from peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns is typically greater than crowdfunding or ticketed events, but that amount could reach even higher levels if nonprofits better understood why people give. . By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. Dollar Dash: The Behavioral Economics of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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