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Non-Profit Assisting Disable Gamers Reaches Milestone

Friday, 17 January 2014
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Able Gamers, an organization that equips disabled gamers with assistive technology reached a milestone. 2013,marked the first time ever that they raised over $100,000, reports Game Politics. Read more...
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Online Petitions as a Fundraising Tool

Friday, 17 January 2014
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According to PICNet, online petitions can be an effective fundraising tool, even if the organization isn’t an advocacy group. An online petition engages users and can help move them to make a donation. Read more...
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Online Bill Pay Donation Tops $400,000

Monday, 13 January 2014
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U.S. Banks online Bill Pay Giving program has donated $450,000 to four charities in a two year period, reports Yahoo Finance. The program started in 2011 was a way to introduce U.S. Bank customers to online bill paying by making their first “payment” a $1 donation to charity. Read more...
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Facebook Launches Donate Now Button

Monday, 13 January 2014
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According to Tech Crunch, Facebook has launched a “Donate Now” button for nonprofit pages. Currently, the new “Donate Now” button appears only on a select few nonprofit pages. The button allows non-profits to collect donations right from their Facebook pages. Read more...
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Online Donations Rise in 2013

Monday, 13 January 2014
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According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Network for Good is reporting a 16 percent increase in online giving for the last two months of 2013. Donations for the period November 1 to December 31 reached 77.9 million dollars. Read more...
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Facebook Founder Makes Good on Pledge

Friday, 03 January 2014
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a pledge to donate half his wealth to Philanthropy, reports the Los Angeles Times. He is upholding that pledge by giving 18 million shares, roughly worth $1 billion, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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Non-profit Succeeds Thanks to Incubator

Friday, 03 January 2014
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Watsi, a new nonprofit that wants to use crowd-funding to bring medical care to patients, is the first non-profit to go through YCombinator, a silicone valley based start up incubator. Read more...
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Non-profit Accepts BitCoin

Friday, 03 January 2014
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According to Poynter, a San Diego news non-profit is now accepting BitCoin donations. The non-profit, inewsource, decided to add a BitCoin donation button to its website, so far, it has received one BitCoin donation.   Read more...
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Curated Giving Takes Guess Work Out of Donating

Monday, 16 December 2013
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A new curated giving site, Omakase, hopes to increase giving from the tech sector, reports Tech Crunch. The site geared towards tech professionals takes the guess work out of charitible giving. It pre selects several charities to support each quarter, users simply select an amount to give each month and Omakase does the rest. Read more...
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Giving Tree Goes Virtual

Monday, 16 December 2013
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According to the Triangle Business Journal, a North Carolina start-up is bringing the Angel Tree online. The CommuniGift site replaces a traditional giving tree with an online platform that lets users find needy families and fulfill their wish lists with a click of the mouse.  Read more...
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