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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Tech Soup

While there has been some high-profile efforts to raise awareness and money, most recently by former football player Steve Gleason and his Team Gleason House , research efforts and awareness have been low compared to the other fatal diseases. Although as of this writing, the accidental campaign raised 31.5 " So why did we do it?

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The Power of Thank You Letters

Connection Cafe

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. It reminded me of an experience I had when I was a high-schooler raising money for a community service trip to Ecuador with Amigos de las Americas. Color me impressed.

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A Geek's Reflections on Personal Fundraising Via Blog, Twitter, and Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. The Charity for Change project is another example where charitable giving is embedded in the curriculum. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

When I was 9 years old, I told my parents who were volunteers in a lot of ways, our church, the summer celebration, political campaigns, I told them that I thought I wanted to help everyone in Minnesota, and so I should try to be governor of Minnesota. But I worked on a couple of political campaigns. How much money? “Give.”

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