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3 Reasons Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Drives More Engagement

Candid

The impact of social fundraising has dramatically increased in the last 18 months, giving nonprofits new channels to create reach and drive engagement. . Peer-to-peer fundraising leverages social networks. The reason peer-to-peer fundraising is so engaging is pretty simple: It’s inherently social. .

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Another idea is to embrace online auctions.

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How to Run a Capital Campaign

CauseVox

Once you have the basic plan in place, it’s time to conduct what’s called a feasibility study or assessment. This is where things start to get real: your feasibility study is where you find out if your organization is ready to run this campaign and if you have the support to be successful. Best Practices for Capital Campaigns.

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Personalizing the Online Fundraising Experience

NTEN

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Include quick instructions that direct people to the "Make a Pledge" link at the bottom of the page where they can enter their donation and credit card information.

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Tear It Down and Virtual Guantanamo: Two Examples of Virtual Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

namo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. After you sign the petition, the online pledge rips a pixel from a photograph depicting hooded and handcuffed prisoners at the detention site. Tearitdown.org , from by Amnesty International USA, is billed as an online movement to tear down the prison at Guant??namo government???s

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Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" com , which has more than 10 million members, 25% of these members are 50+.

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The Problem With Millennials & Fundraising

Achieve

It offers a specific goal, requesting that participants gather 16 friends and each pledge to give $3.33 Donating one’s network involves capitalising on professional and personal relationships to expose others to a cause. Millennials want to use their resources – friends, family and social networks – to help support a cause.

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