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	<title>Internet Fundraising Tips</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>1 Billion for 1 Billion = 10 Learning Points</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=260</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Less Is More]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ambitious online appeal from the World Food Programme is a great tutor for how to do an online appeal right.
Faced with a major funding shortfall as donor government resources are hit by the economy, WFP is appealing directly to one billion individuals to give small amounts of cash to beat hunger. This is their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Ask For a Major Gift    (NOT)</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=253</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Experiential Fundraising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Major Donors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hear Matt Damon asking for a major gift on Entourage.  (R for language)



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		<title>FREE Seminar on State Registration Requirements for Nonprofit Fundraising</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=247</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Registration of Nonprofits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fundraisers in all but the largest nonprofits have routinely ignored the requirements of state law that they register state-by-state before conducting their fundraising activities.  With the advent of online fundraising, the number of charities flaunting those laws has grown dramatically.
Problem is, the law makes no exceptions in any state for online fundraising.  It is only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Donations Best Practices Review</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=226</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=226#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Experiential Fundraising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Less Is More]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ A positive donor experience with an efficient, uncluttered donation process will help increase the number of donations you receive online.
To actually close a donation online it&#8217;s important that your website adheres to these 11 best practices.
1. Place a large, colorful donate button on every page.  Red has been tested and works.  More important is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Causes Fundraising - Will it work for you?</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=236</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Is using Facebook&#8217;s Causes application for fundraising worth the time and energy you might put into it?  You be the judge.
As of near the end of April 2009:
There were about 60 million members of Facebook in the USA (not all of them active).
25 million active members of Facebook had &#8220;joined&#8221; (not necessarily donated to) at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Good Reason To Register Your Fundraising</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=221</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State Registration of Nonprofits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All but unnoticed in the national press is an effort launched last week by the Federal Trade Commission and 49 Attorneys General &#8212; Operation False Charity. Federal and state enforcers announced 76 law enforcement actions against 32 fundraising companies, 22 non-profits or purported non-profits on whose behalf funds were solicited, and 31 individuals. 
Google news results for Operation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Variation On &#8220;Give Now or We&#8217;ll Call You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=213</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=213#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Experiential Fundraising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Giving donors a deadline for their donation &#8212; or else they&#8217;ll receive the dreaded tele-solicitation &#8212; is a much used and often abused annual fund tactic.  No donor likes to be threatened.
But done tongue-in-cheek with a healthy dollop of self (organizational) deprecation it may just yield results.
In late April Furman University (Greenville SC) launched an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Online Fundraising Making A Difference For You?</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=210</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=210#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Experiential Fundraising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is Online Fundraising Making A Difference For You?  It should be.
Some interesting bits in recent news.
Charities in British Columbia are finding that nonprofit clutter has lead to donor fatigue and become a barrier to charitable giving.  Where people used to support an average of 6 charities a year, now they support only 4.  Even so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost of Donations through Google Increases</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=208</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=208#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment nonprofits that use Google Checkout to process their donations pay Google 2% plus $0.20 for each donation received.  That&#8217;s about as low as processing costs can get (without a Google Grant), but it&#8217;s about to change.
Beginning May 5, 2009 nonprofits will pay a tiered rate that begins at 2.9% plus $0.30 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screen out Online Donations from states where your organization is not legally registered</title>
		<link>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=197</link>
		<comments>http://www.internetfundraisingtips.com/?p=197#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Donations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Registration of Nonprofits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WANTED: an online donations ASP that gives us the ability to control whether or not our organization will accept donations from a given state.
Nonprofits are supposed to, and should, register with state governments to conduct fundraising operations legally within a state.  This applies to both online and offline fundraising.
Problem is there are no uniform requirements about which [...]]]></description>
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