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33+ Raffle Basket Ideas to Wow the Crowd & Win Support

Bloomerang

You may need to secure a permit or license and follow specific regulations for hosting and handling income made at the raffle. Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. A day out at the zoo or aquarium is a useful gift for families with young children.

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

You can find discounted licenses for InDesign on sites like TechSoup. Calculate personalized gift strings based on the donor’s last gift amount. Also, if you do need to outsource your printing, your printer may require press-quality art packages made by professional design software. Canva can’t do that, but Adobe InDesign can.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jim Fruchterman receiving the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech President Jean Lou Chameau, May 18, 2013 More than anything else, that pleasure in finding things out has been Caltech’s gift to me in my work as an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Shockingly, according to a Software Advice research report, 52 percent of nonprofits are still using Excel and Google Docs to run their development operations.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

It does Direct Marketing but not Major Gift fundraising (or it does Major Gift fundraising but not Direct Marketing); we need support in both areas. The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). Stewarding current donors.

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Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

Google reported earlier this year that, “global searches for ‘online gift’ increased by 80% in 2020 compared to 2019,“ and that people are increasingly using special occasions—like birthdays and holidays—as a reason to give.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D. Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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