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2021 Fundraising Ideas Designed To Help You Raise More This Year

Kindful

Choosing a fundraising idea for your nonprofit can be difficult. You need to choose an idea that meets your fundraising needs, appeals to your audience, and is manageable for your team to pull off. Through this, we’ve seen firsthand what online fundraising ideas nonprofits use to successfully raise money for their cause.

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I Hope My Kids Organize Their Own Online Fundraiser When They Are Teenagers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events, including last week's Tweetsgiving Meetup where my daughter won a lunch with Twitterville author Shel Israel that was being raffled off.

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Google Beth, Kiss Beth: Tangible Benefits to Blogging (and Facebook(

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Occasionally, the "Beth" entry for wikipedia comes first or Beth Israel Hospital. I had no idea why this happens, but in workshops when people ask for my url, it is easy to say "Google Beth" and it gives me a reason to mention the impacts of blogging on search engine results.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

Helen: How did you come up with the idea of picking a good and naughty penguin of the month? . Felicity: The penguin keepers at the National Aquarium of New Zealand heard of this idea being used internally at another facility. Votes increased from the previous year reaching over 12,000. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. How TechSoup Started. Daniel started TechSoup, then named CompuMentor, in 1987.

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Halcyon's By The People Festival: How One Organization is Using Data to Unite People Around Art

Everyaction

Halcyon is a DC-based arts and culture organization that brings together diverse groups of changemakers in art and social enterprise and provides a safe haven for their bold ideas to take flight. EveryAction online forms enable users to tap into our massive network of over 59 million Action Profiles. boost in their conversion rates.

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Is A Downer News Cycle A Factor in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Success?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concern of philanthropy experts is that high-profile fundraising campaigns like this end up cannibalizing other donations–those inclined to donate $100 to charity this summer, or this year, will judge that they’ve met their social obligations by spending the money on ALS. But the evidence is to the contrary.

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