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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each node is required to verify transactions and store the same records in the database it hosts. The Bitcoin blockchain, for example, is supported by roughly 10,000 nodes hosting its freely downloadable database software, and it has never been hacked during its ten-year history.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. Partner with a corporate sponsor or a major gifts supporter to host a matching gifts drive. Host a virtual wine and cheese tasting for your donors as a fundraising event. Wishlist drives. Matching gifts drive. Virtual event fundraising.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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And, we know a lot more about how to host virtual events and engage an online audience than we did last year. As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users. If you want to optimize your modern fundraising strategy, you have to meet your supporters where they already are— on the internet. Leverages common tools.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Increase awareness on relevant issues.

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We Want YOU to Help Scale Up Mobile for the Common Good

Tech Soup

Although we know we have no lever guaranteed to eliminate poverty — it has been with us for thousands of years — for the first time, we have a tool kit and neural network via mobile and the Internet, which can be pointed at making a difference in people's lives.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively.

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LocalFreeWeb Combines Digital Inclusion with Public Transportation

Tech Soup

Last October, I wrote about a breakfast co-hosted by Caravan Studios and Twilio for nonprofits and app developers. LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. The user will receive a text with the three closest locations that have free Internet access.