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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. After processing about 66 donations per minute during their 2013 event, the website crashed at 12:30 p.m.—for for five hours.

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Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Connection Cafe

As a collegiate baseball player in Wichita, KS, I volunteered at a local event and became hooked. I can actually say I was in the stands and heard the speech that Special Olympics International has on their website to honor her and the lives she changed.

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