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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon. Student art show.

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How Loggerhead Marinelife Center is Raising Funds to Save Sea Turtles

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In a normal year, the Center welcomes more than 350,000 guests, including more than 70,000 students on school field trips, to its campus for free. Most recently, LMC began offering virtual educational lessons, videos and activities for at home learners. Once the eggs have been laid, they incubate for 60-90 days.

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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

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Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. There’s an app for that! H osting a virtual or local day of service?

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. Fellows make use of blogging, social networking, photo and video sharing tools to build communities of support for their host organizations so donors can follow their work and directly share in the accomplishments.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

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According to a study by the journal, Political Psychology , students who were already "community-minded" were not affected by community service requirements at their school, but students who were more "self-interested" developed a, "willingnes to donate their time to charity as well as a greater political awareness."

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

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We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day.

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