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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. For example, I got invited to one of these parlor meetings next month, and the organization serves people in Nepal. So for those of you who guessed B, you are correct. And there’s a Nepalese villager on the board.

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Actigiving—The Next Phase in the Evolution of Episodic Giving

Connection Cafe

An analysis of the data from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, and most recently the Nepal earthquake in 2015, followed a consistent pattern of donors choosing to give online immediately following the event.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines. You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. It's just accessible.

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