Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? Having a fundraising strategy that coincides with your goals and audience will help grow engagement organically. Pictures, videos, and text to help share your story, and one clear ask. Craft Your Unique Story. Find a hero.

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Beginner Fundraising Sudan Raise 36

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did.

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Fun Oakland Sudan Darfur 40

Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. When people know exactly what their money is going towards, they feel most comfortable donating.

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. When people know exactly what their money is going towards, they feel most comfortable donating.

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. If they don't have a way to make money, they can't access those things. So, a poor person's number one need anywhere in the world is actually a way to make more money.

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Interview Tools Africa Kenya 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. At the end of the year, upon their graduation, the goal becomes, how can we help them get a job? That's the story of Women for Women.

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International Interview Bosnia Congo 40

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. Has the organization friended celebrities to drive more traffic to their own profile? Donations How much money is being donated?

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