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4 Ways Small Nonprofits Can Use Mobile to Slay a Giant

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Smartphones are good for brick-and-mortar businesses. This surprised everyone, including me, because as mobile grew businesses trembled at the prospect of smartphone carrying customers showrooming their stores for better selection and prices online. But just the opposite happened. Mobile is helping to bring customers closer to physical businesses. If this is true for physical businesses, what about for brick-and-mortar nonprofits? Can […]

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Is Your Website Turning Away Donors?

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Recently, Philanthropy.com published a survey of millennials who were asked to respond to different nonprofit websites. The headline of the results, published on July 18, 2013, caught my eye. It reads, “75% of Young Donors Turned Off By Out-of-Date Web Sites.” The survey involved 2,600 people born between the years 1979-1994. More than simply reporting

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3 Ways to Turn Distraction Into Support

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I never just watch television. As I’m finishing this post, I’m watching The Patriot–a fitting movie for a Bostonian on Bunker Hill Day! I’m a multi-tasker that has to justify watching Mob Wives by doing something more productive. That means I’m on my laptop answering emails, writing, reading, researching, etc. while mob wife Drita D’Avanzo beats

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LevelUp May Take Mobile Donations to a New Level

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Here’s a great trivia question: After Starbucks, who is the second biggest player in mobile payments? The answer is Boston-based LevelUp, which is processing nearly $1 million dollars a month with 100,000 users and 1,400 merchants in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago. If you don’t use Starbucks mobile payment app to

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Analyzing the State of Social Media Fundraising: An Interview with Debra Askanase

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Debra Askanase is one of the top thought leaders in online community building, and my #1 pick for bloggers in social fundraising. In reference to her recent blog post Has Social Media Fundraising Finally Arrived?, we talked about the state of the social fundraising sphere, and what nonprofits should be doing to take advantage of

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