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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

If you're most concerned about national and global issues, like worldwide hunger or cancer, look for nonprofits that are equipped for such a large challenge. When you donate wisely, your gift has the potential to make a real difference in someone's life.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. This transition began a year ago as Twitter came into its own as a charitable gift spreader. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. .

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How to Attract Donors From Around the World With Your Virtual Event

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Consider this virtual event idea to build a sustainable donation strategy around more global donors for current campaigns, future fundraising efforts, and recurring monthly gifts. Build registration tiers with more incentives to promote higher gift amounts . Set a default donation amount for monthly gifts that appeals to most donors.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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The benefits of strength-based messaging Strength-based messaging encourages long-term and recurring giving, rather than a one-time gift to meet an immediate need. Example: A gift of $50 today can help a neighbor (not a hungry family) who faces food insecurity. She is not a cancer patient first.)

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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A transformational gift. The big-gift story is surprisingly easy to sell, especially if you can say it’s “the biggest gift in our organization’s history.” Emphasize what you will do with the gift and how it will impact the community. It’s okay if the donor wants to remain anonymous. That adds a bit of intrigue!

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

I told her that I was going to send her a little gift for her birthday, and she said, "No, no, no, no. You can call yourself 'Secret Agent L, All-Around Swell Chick and Girl Spy.'" The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place. Don't send me anything.

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