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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

The Maui wildfire response The Maui wildfires in August, which affected Lahaina and Kula, stand out for the funds raised. As far as we know, this is the highest amount ever raised by a single community foundation for a non-terrorism-related disaster. There were many more, including February’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

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Social Media and Cute Dogs Go Mobile And Other Cute Animal and Nonprofit Tales

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. This gave Michelle and her team an idea: What if they had a cute animal mascot for their holiday turkey donation drive?

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

Qgiv

Due to a lack of major upfront expenses, fundraising online is one of the most profitable ways to raise money for your organization. Instead, with online fundraising, you can be sure that most of the money you raise will go directly towards your mission. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach.

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31 Unique Ideas for Small Church Fundraisers

Qgiv

From funding mission trips to furthering the education of your youth, raising money is vital to support your church’s mission and operations. Raising money to support various projects, groups, and programs can be tough, especially with a small congregation. collect pledges in return for participating in a big community service day.

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Berlin’s Yababa snags $15.5M to scale a multicultural grocery delivery biz across Europe

TechCrunch

Albeit, in Yababa’s case, it’s clearly in a rush to scale in order to steal a march on other multicultural-focused newcomers and doing that requires enough resource, hence the chunky seed raise. As EU eyes ‘balance’ on precarious gig work, Glovo offers pledge of ‘fairer’ conditions for couriers.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

Qgiv

We saw a 108% increase in dollars raised on the Qgiv platform and a 100% increase in the total number of donations to our clients. For example, do you want to raise 10% of your year-end fundraising goal? In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

The earthquakes on February 6 that devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria have left an estimated 54,000 people dead. million people in Turkey have fled the earthquake zone, creating even greater humanitarian hardships in a region already affected by hyperinflation, civil war, and political tensions. billion) to Turkey.

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