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#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GivingTuesday trended for over 10 hours straight in the United States (9:30 am – 7:30 pm). The average online gift on #GivingTuesday 2013 was $142.05, which was significantly up from $101.60 That’s a 40% year-over-year increase in average gift size. My experience as a fundraising champion for NTEN was positive.

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

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Semphonic President and Conference Founder Gary Angel says " What a gift to have the best minds in the industry to work together and the big bonus is helping 2 chosen non-profit organizations."" The Analytics Challenge is a ½ day event at X Change conference on September 13th. "" Apply today!

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. GPA chapters are located across the United States. Meet Carolyn Appleton! She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories.

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Online Education Events for Nonprofits in July 2015

Tech Soup

If you are not located in Eastern United States, use this site to convert those times into your own time zone. How Even Small Nonprofits Can Raise Big Gifts CharityHowTo / Webinar / Fee: $77. Community of Practice: Chat with Anne Kreamer NTEN / Community of Practice: Women in NPTECH / Fee: Free. How to Retain Your Donors.

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Check Out the 2012 Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference

NTEN

It’s not too late to join professionals from the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Humane Society of the United States and the Society of Former Agents of the FBI and the other great organizations and companies. As a Program Partner for the 2012 Bridge Conference – we want you to be there, too! THINK of the networking! Don’t delay.

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TXT for (Increased) Success

NTEN

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. ReplySTOPtoquit" Step 5: Wait for eager donors to call to complete their gift. THE RESULTS.

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

NTEN

A webinar on lessons learned will be held in Q2 to share some of the key findings with NTEN members. Research into both the "Wired Wealthy" and other consumers shows they visit organizations' websites before donating regardless of whether the gift is given online or offline. To get your invitation visit [link].).

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