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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

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Crowdrise Crowdriseplaces the spotlight on individual donors, allowing people to create their own fundraisers, bring in their friends and compete for rewards and public praise. For example, you can choose to pledge 10 cents a tweet, or $0.25 You decide which nonprofit, how much you're willing to pledge per month, and HelpAttack!

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good.

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Text to Donate Campaigns for Social Change

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It’s not surprising that after the widely publicized success of the 2010 Red Cross "Text-to-Give" campaign for Haitian earthquake relief, social change organizations wanted to hop on the text-to-donate bandwagon. By Debra Brown, COO, MobilizeUs.com.

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How To Use Information You Already Have To Personalize Constituent Experiences Online

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note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. We used a "pledge to donate garden produce" to invite those folks interested in our Teaching Garden to a special open house event at the Food Bank. We publicized both the submission of entries and the voting on entries through social media.

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Member Round Up: Working Together!

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Many of you know Annaliese as a great resource for any questions regarding all aspects of NTEN’s resources and nonprofit technology in general. Last year she changed her focus at NTEN to became our Research and Publications Director, and she’s already receiving huge honors for her work.

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Calling All Nonprofits: Its Time for a Privacy Upgrade

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NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, concluded her April 2, 2010 blog post about cloud computing by saying, "We also have to ask if we're putting our clients and our missions at risk. A coalition of public interest groups and companies, Digital Due Process, has formed to push for stronger electronic privacy protections.

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Five Fundraising Tips for Grassroots Organiztions

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Successful major fundraisers such as PBS ask for open-ended donations but also forcefully stress during their Pledge Weeks that "a donation of $60 will get you a CD, $120 a DVD…" and so on. What your image is among the donating public. What you need to do in order to induce them to donate. Why former supporters are no longer donating.

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