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From Dusty Boxes to Digital Gold: Transforming Nonprofit Histories into Fundraising Assets with Digital Archives

Allegiance Group

Every nonprofit has a rich history, but it’s likely contained in various places — boxes in the basement, awards in a display case, memories of a long-time staff member or volunteer. Dr. Kristen Gwinn-Becker is on a mission to help nonprofits preserve their history through digital archiving. You’ll also lose the stories they hold.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home). What is needed to make this better?

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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The technology to accept donations online was launched in the late 90′s, but it wasn’t until 2008 that nonprofits began to experience significant dollars raised online primarily thanks to the rise of e-newsletters and social media. Rotating home page photos take center stage and navigation is much simplified.

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Prospect Research: 6 Things to Look For in a Potential Donor

The Fundraising Authority

Their donation history. Their volunteer history. Their donation history. Their volunteer history. Their full employment history. A prospect’s giving history is likely where you should start, but there are numerous other wealth indicators you should assess. Their professional and personal connections.

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Nail Online Giving With These Tips and Tools

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Online giving is a great way to raise money. To successfully raise money online, you need a compelling reason for someone to give, a tool to raise money, and a plan for driving traffic to your site. They close the loop by providing photos of each project taking place with a cost report showing how donations were spent.

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Ellen’s Oscar Selfie Raises $1.5 Million for Humane Society

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Best photo ever. So we had the staff at our animal sanctuaries stage “selfies” of the animals and we put them all together in one photo that mirrored Ellen’s Oscar selfie.” If only Bradley’s arm was longer. oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap. Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014. million RTs.

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DipJar Opens New Pittsburgh Headquarters

DipJar

This is an important time in DipJar’s history, and we’re excited to open our new corporate headquarters here in Pittsburgh,” said Chris Selland , CEO of DipJar. This great workspace provides our people with the opportunity to further innovate our fund-raising technologies and services, and to support our growing customer base.

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