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Games Done Quick Gives Gaming—And Charity—Another Swift Kick

Associations Now

And, as I wrote in 2015, it’s also a massively successful charity event , one that has seen its profile surge over the years as gaming itself has become more prominent, along with the concept of speedrunning, the practice of trying to beat a game in the fastest amount of time. That, too, topped the $2 million mark in donations last year.)

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Find More Meaning in Your Metrics

Associations Now

Of course, associations have missions too. ” Mayor and McCrimons, president of Philanthropy Works, shared these ideas with attendees at the 2015 ASAE Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference in June, in a Learning Lab titled “Memberball: Increasing Member Engagement and Satisfaction Through Innovative Data Analysis.”

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

Mary’s University of Minnesota. were published in 2015. an on-demand, eLearning educational resource for nonprofit leaders, staff, board members and volunteers, with thousands of courses in nearly every aspect of nonprofit work. . Mary’s University of Minnesota. Well, he was wrong. The Science of Giving. Even more so.

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The Intersection of Systems and Network Leadership

Beth Kanter

Rebecca Arno (@rarno) February 3, 2015. Janne Flisrand, a network weaver based in Minnesota who I met last month at a gathering of network designers and weavers here in San Francisco , recently shared a reflection from a similar meeting of network weavers in Minnesota — all from different networks with different purposes and scale.

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