In a few days – right after #BlackFriday and CyberMoney, the internet will be buzzing with #GivingTuesday. Even the White House is talking about it! And if you’re one of the 7,837 participating #GivingTuesday partners, you’ve probably put together a solid game plan. Even so, in the thick of the hustle and bustle of year-end […]
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Initially, Thanksgiving was created by Abraham Lincoln to create just a glimmer of light and hope during the Civil War. Since then, Thanksgiving has become the start of shopping season for Christmas. Black Friday sales have increasingly led to Black Friday deaths as people beat each other up for that valuable game console. Amidst all
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Human beings have been sharing stories for thousands of years. In fact, there are cave paintings in France that are 30,000 years old! We are hard-wired for storytelling, which is why storytelling in nonprofit communication works as well as it does. Effective storytelling centers on people, NOT ideas or statistics. Apartheid is a powerful story partly because of
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What I’m about to tell you in this post, my most dearly held fundraising gems, will probably not be new to you at all. So why mention the obvious? Because some things cannot be overemphasized, especially when it comes to fundraising while the clock begins to countdown to the year’s end. Double if you’re the
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GivingTuesday is on December 3, 2013 – 5 days after Thanksgiving, and 4 days after Black Friday. Blackbaud and Mightycause saw a 50% increase on #GivingTuesday in 2012 over the previous year (http://www.npengage.com/event-fundraising/eat-shop-and-then-givingtuesday/). Participation on #GivingTuesday this year will most likely be even bigger, so you don’t want to miss out on it! $100,000 from
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday, November marks the kickoff to a season of buying gifts for others. And if we’re really being honest, it’s also when you spend a little extra on yourself. This year, the National Retail Federation predicts that holiday spending will increase 4.1% to $586.1 billion. According to their survey, the
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