I think I spend as much time buying stuff for my six-pound yorkie Charlie as I do for my two kids. I shop at a Petco near my house. Whenever I swipe my credit card at the register I get a message from the Petco Foundation, which helps shelters find homes for orphaned pets, asking for […]
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My first post of 2013 was 3 Steps to Using Twitter to Gather Nonprofit News. Nearly a year later it’s still a useful post with some great suggestions on how to stay informed – minute to minute – on nonprofit happenings. But man and woman do not live by cause alone. I learn a lot
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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do If you haven’t got a ha’penny then God bless you! Socks are probably the last thing you want under your Christmas tree on Wednesday morning. But I hope
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Are you taking time off over the holidays? Me too. I plan to: Eat as many of my wife’s homemade Christmas cookies as possible. Break my record for watching Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye in White Christmas. (I set a personal record of seven times in 2012) Spend some time cultivating my greatest asset: me.
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A decade-old holiday tradition continued this year in Morris, Illinois when an anonymous donor dropped three gold coins into a Salvation Army red kettle. These aren’t just any coins. They’re worth $1,835. I bet you didn’t drop that much into the red kettle outside your supermarket! No matter. We all give in our own way.
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The holidays are fun but they can be exhausting. A lot needs to get done in the next few weeks. That’s why now is a good time to charge your batteries with three cause promotions that are fun, interesting, and GOOD. Jeweler Gives Couples a Good Reason to Smooch E. B. Horn, a well known
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These are the top 100 winners of our $100 Million Celebration Sweepstakes! Each of these will receive a Mightycause Giving Card, which they can use to donate to their favorite nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization! Congratulations, winners! Grand Prize Winner: $2,500 — Shiovhan Boykin Second Place Winner: $1,000 — Shalita O’Neale Third Place Winners: $500 — Jennifer
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We’re taking a day off on the Inspiring Generosity blog; we’ll resume to our normal programming tomorrow. In the meantime, check out the Wiki on Labor Day. Have fun everyone!
The 10 day Cultures of Giving Donor Challenge will end tomorrow. Twenty-two nonprofits are participating in the online giving campaign. Presented by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Cultures of Giving Donor Challenge supports nonprofits addressing high-priority issues in diverse communities across the country. As the above leader board shows, the competition is tight from top
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I had an interesting conversation with my family this weekend about “the secret to success.” How many blog reiterations of that topic do you read a day? Almost all of social media blog posts you read are how-tos on making things work, right? But the reality is that we have to fail before we really
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