Fundraising

Facebook Check in’s for Charity? Do they work?

Back in November, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Deals, which offers customers special promotions when checking in to participating businesses through Facebook Places. REI is proud to have been one of the businesses to help launch the new service and to help local non-profits at the same time. Through November and December, for every customer that checked-in at an ...

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RT2 Give Technology Review

When I initially heard about TwitPay’s RT2Give I thought it was a cool concept that my nonprofit’s followers might dig….however…that quickly proved to not be the case. I put off signing up for RT2Give for quite awhile for Lights. Camera. Help. (LCH) using the normal nonprofit excuses of time, thought and money. However LCH got our act together in Jan ...

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Part Two: Celebrities and Charity – The Colbert Whisper

:: A guest post from our friends at Little Kids Rock :: First Part here :: Once these celebrities returned a personalized guitar and were hooked into the project, I knew they had already invested enough time that asking them to promote their artwork through their own social networks was not too far of a stretch, but it would have ...

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Rockstars, Artwork and $75,000 for Charity : A How To

:: Special Guest Post from our nonprofit Friend Keith Hejna :: Millions of children receive no music education due to school budget cuts. I asked celebrities and rockstars like Gene Simmons, Stephen Colbert, Stan Lee and Slash to help fill the void by painting blank Fender(R) guitars to be auctioned off for Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org), a national nonprofit that ...

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