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Here's a short list of reasons why nonprofits should focus more on making making their websites mobile friendly and less on App development. Creating and Maintaining an App is expensive. Making your existing website mobile-friendly is easy and not so...

In the online fundraising world, "great promise" means donations. In the 1st week after we launched the mobile verison of http://hope.cupidsundierun.com, 60 donations came through from Iphones, Ipads, or Android devices. Most orgs don't see 60 donations from mobile users...

Make your nonprofit recession proof. Here's a link to one of a long list of articles that shows that there is a lot of anxiety in nonprofit circles over the economy. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/13/139589747/nonprofits-watch-anxiously-as-market-wobbles S--t happens and it's happening now. Here are...

It's always nice to spotlight our clients who make the most of their event with the SWEET Fundraising Software for A-thons. JRunners (http://www.jrunners.org/) did just that in a recent 5K Race (http://ourplace5k.jrunners.org/) where they raised over $90,000 for Our Place....

I'm not a huge fan of swimming in cold weather. But it's definitely more palatable if it's done in the name of a good cause. Save the Harbor / Save the Bay's (http://www.savetheharbor.org/) mission is to restore and preserve Boston...

So far, over 3000 elementary school students in Texas have created their fundraising pages on SWEET and have raised close to $150,000 in the Read-a-Thon. Everything is bigger down in Texas! The money they raised goes toward providing books and...

https://www.gatherplace.net/gp/jview.jsp?pf=82705188&confirmed=true Here's a link to a 40-minute webinar discussing the undeniable merits of online fundraising using the 'peer-to-peer' / 'personal'/ 'friends asking friends' fundraising model. The Webinar also includes tips on how to get such a program started at your...

A recent study by AFP yielded some very revealing results about Personal Fundraising. Whether you call it Personal Fundraising, Peer to Peer Fundraising, Friends Asking Friends, or Viral Fundraising it's all referring to the same dynamic that involves supporters of...

Mario Marathon Raises Money for Children’s Hospital [LIVE VIDEO]. Good idea. In my quest to find new and effective fundraising ideas for you, I stumbled across Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org). They run an event called Mario Marathon. You can get...