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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

Classy

The LoveYourBrain team promotes recurring giving by sending a special meditation by email every month to their monthly donors, which falls perfectly in line with their belief that yoga, mindfulness, and community are essential to transforming the wellbeing of people impacted by TBI. Operation Broken Silence: The Renewal.

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

But, the fact is, our minds are a byproduct of our instantaneous information culture. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. Is that a character flaw? Rise above the noise.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Since, 2010, Team Rubicon has been instrumental in over 50 missions ranging from South Sudan and Haiti, to Joplin, Missouri and Hurricane Sandy. "And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds.

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How to Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog

NTEN

We also elaborated what we wanted the blog to be for Mercy Corps supporters and other external audiences: a rare opportunity to have a look into the minds and activities of a humanitarian organization working in some of the world's toughest (and most fascinating) places. Did I ever anticipate a poem? Certainly not.

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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Tech Soup

For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. To tell your story in a way that resonates with your audience, keep in mind the following pointers: Posing a question to your audience can get them interested in what your cause is about.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. And he's come up with his plan, his social entrepreneurship plan, to bring attention to the refugee plight and also to contribute to rebuilding in Sudan. It had been bombed.

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

Connection Cafe

So, with the influx of questions we received around preparing for end of year fundraising, I realized that these questions are probably on a lot of fundraisers’ minds these days. He has travelled to South Sudan, and extensively across Canada on behalf of War Child.

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