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Author: Benefit Blogger Created: 9/23/2009 3:22 PM
A place to share practical, workable ideas to help schools and nonprofits raise more money and be more successful.

This week one of our nonprofit clients was challenged by a donor to find a way raise funds by leveraging the 50-mile bike ride the donor is taking this summer. After discussing several approaches...

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The new Greater Giving Online release, which includes Event Software Online and Join Me (our new peer-to-peer fundraising tool), includes a new Reports section within Project Home, located right under Project Tasks. From the Reports section, you can now access and... 

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Many of us at Greater Giving are attending product training this week for our newest product—Join Me, which we’ll be releasing in early June...

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Want to retain your tax-exempt status? More than 200,000 small charities and nonprofits with revenues of $25,000 or less could lose their tax-exempt status next week if they don't file a federal tax form by Monday, May 17th. This requirement goes back to a 2006 law that says nonprofits with revenues of $25,000 or less...

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The Benefit Blogger will be on vacation until early January, 2010.  Please check back with us then for some exciting changes to our Website...

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The number of items in your online auction will be influenced by the role the online auction plays in your fundraiser. Will the online auction preview your live and silent auctions and allow pre-event bidding to drive up the opening bid...

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We’re finalizing the content for next week’s webinar on a-Thons, and we’re looking forward to sharing some great ideas with attendees. Our speaker, Julie Taylor, works for American Heart Association as a market consultant. Before that, she was Senior Director of Start! Richmond Heart Walk for three years...

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Keep your guests and your venue in mind when procuring silent auction items. You want to have items that appeal to every taste and budget, but if you’re like most organizations, you’ll have limited viewing time and display space...

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We get lots of questions about item type, number and placement for live, silent, and online auctions. If you’re planning a spring auction, it’s not too soon to define your item strategy so you can efficiently procure the right items for your fundraiser...

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Traditional media—press releases, brochures, even Websites—allow an organization to maintain control of their message and manage their public perception. Social media is all about your audience having control...

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