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  • Keeping Them Coming Back for More: Your Communications Arcs
    Kivi Leroux Miller President Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com Story arcs are what keep you coming back to your favorite TV shows: you care what happens next. What does this have to do with nonprofit marketing? Everything! If you have a favorite TV show, you are familiar with the concept of the story arc: what happens last week influences what happens this week, […]
  • What Komen Should Do Next to Rebuild Trust
    The apology that Susan G. Komen for the Cure issued on Friday was the first step. The obligatory resignations are next. But if Komen is going to repair the damage done by its behavior last week, they have quite a few more steps in the process. “What should Komen do next?” That’s the question many […]
  • A Conversation About Nonprofit Leadership with AFP Yosemite and a Tour of Modesto, California
    Last week, I had the very good fortune of being invited to speak to the Association of Fundraising Professionals Yosemite Chapter in Modesto, California. That photo up top is me with the direct mail legend himself, David Barnes, who has been in the fundraising profession for 40 years. Much love to Jennifer Svihus for inviting […]
  • 100 Women in Hedge Funds-Stanford PACS Conference: Alpha & Altruism
    These women in hedge funds want to know where I am in my philanthropic journey? LOL! I tried going from success to significance, Honey, but thank God I booked a round trip ticket. Give me unlimited financial success and I... […]
  • If there was ever a reason to support an organization, this is it - THANK YOU Planned Parenthood Mar Monte!
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  • Cutting Red Tape for Nonprofits
    In past legislative sessions, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits has worked with elected officials to streamline items affecting nonprofits in state statute. The work is part of MCN’s Red Tape Reduction Project, and now MCN is looking for your ideas about additional red tape that needs slashing. MCN want ideas about streamlining processes and reporting [... […]

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  • GOP congressional candidate critiques U.S. Rep. Langevin in fundraising appeal
    By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Michael Gardiner, a Republican candidate for Congress, sent out a lengthy fundraising appeal Tuesday that lays out some of his basic talking points, as he again seek to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. James Langevin for the Second Congressional District seat. Gardiner, a Providence attorney, criticizes Langevin both for h […]
  • Amable Jimenez Vargas : Costa Rica
    $100 of $600 raised. Started raising funds on Feb 7, 2012 Amable is 75 years old and lives in a community named Desamparados in the province of San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. This area has a wide range of hotels and offers tourists museums, restaurants, parks, volcanoes, conference centers, modern shopping centers, cinemas, theaters, galleries and a varied […]
  • Mt. Sima launches community fundraising campaign with sculpture and mural
    WHITEHORSE – On Jan 3 Mt. Sima launched a community fundraising campaign that includes a rolling ball sculpture and painted mural, with all funds raised going towards the new Pelly Construction Chairlift. […]
  • We are all prisoners
    You are in prison. Bars block your hands as they reach for freedom. The air is your arteries — constricted — thumping — heated by the fire of life fighting an undeniable death. Your dreams slumber beneath the terror of … Click here to continue reading >>> […]
  • Mortons Steakhouse – Great Customer Care
    I was researching great customer care today and came across this brilliant story from Peter Shankman. He was a Mortons fan before this happened…but now he’s a Raving Fan for life. He posted this joke tweet: and then this happened And of course Twitter got hold of it…and loved it! Maybe you can’t deliver steaks […]
  • Mohammad : Jordan
    $200 of $725 raised. Started raising funds on Feb 7, 2012 Mohammad is a 36-year-old man who is supporting a family of five members. Mohammad is a handy-man who makes crafts from wood using different tools that he has. He owns a workshop in his house and has been working in this field for over 15 years now. Mohammad has applied for a loan to improve the works […]