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Last Saturday was an important anniversary in Social Networking terms, marking one year since Facebook launched Facebook Platform, the toolkit that enables the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data.

The same day was also the first anniversary of the biggest non-profit Facebook App, 'Causes' from Project Agape (now also available on MySpace) – and Project Agape marked the date with the release of statistics on its first year's activity.

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For the best relationship between a charity and a business that in any way provides benefit to the charity within the eligibility criteria. Applications can be of any size or scale.
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It's my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants this week, and it's all about 'Insights, tips and tricks for online fundraising'. So, without further ado, here are seven online fundraising insights, tips and tricks for you.

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The other day I got chatting with a colleague about the 'Hype Cycle', used by technology consultancy Gartner to illustrate the adoption of technologies, and it started me thinking about just where different aspects of online fundraising are on the Hype Cycle.

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Reconnect (www.reconnect.org.ph) is a giving portal launched last year in the Philippines. The aim of the site is to link NGOs in that country with the huge Filipino diaspora around the world.
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My consultancy, the International Fundraising Consultancy (IFC) has always helped charities to open up new income streams overseas, but recent requests have shown a trend towards UK organisations see
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I must admit to enjoying reading facts and figures about the voluntary sector - how big it is, how many people it involves, what it achieves, and so on.
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According to Andrain Lee of Asia Pay 80% of consumers of luxury brands expect the companies behind those brands to have high standards of social responsibility.
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FreePoverty.com is another variation on the click-to-give-for-free website, and specifically the quiz version of that site.
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I was at a meeting this week - the North East Social Capital Forum, since you ask - where a Civil Servant was holding out great hopes for the forthcoming Community Empowerment.
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