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Send a Successful Annual Appeal: Tips and Strategies

Bloomerang

In this guide, we’ll cover what your nonprofit needs to know about writing an effective annual appeal letter and share other ways you can engage with donors to raise more funds to support your mission. Email marketing platform: You likely don’t have time to reach out to your donors individually. We’ll review: .

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Crowdfunding Controversies and How They Impact Nonprofits and Charities

Tech Soup

We've written quite a bit on the benefits of crowdfunding campaigns here on TechSoup, including a platform comparison and a webinar called The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). In other words, nonprofits and charities that are raising money for good purposes shouldn't be punished for the more nefarious crowdfunding campaigns.

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Three Keys to Working with Crowds

Care2

Ideas and ventures that would have been impossible when capital was scarce are now possible because of social media platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Fake requests like: Send me money today, or my opponent will win and send your children to Russia for kindergarten! Creating “No Fake” Zones. do more harm than good.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Nonprofit Social Media 101: Lessons from Indivisible

Everyaction

How do you define that voice differently across different platforms? I think that it's also helpful to look at each platform and see what other organizations are doing to get creative inspiration. You should also know what people go to each platform for. If you watch Instagram, you can see that it's mostly personal anecdotes.

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector. The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. All other platforms are in the low single digits. There are now 2.4

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