If you’re sending donation requests by email then you need approval from officials in states where they land.  There are civil penalties in California, New York, Illinois and many others.  Add the likes of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon and Utah if you’re using email, U.S. As you get your online fundraising programs in place and start connecting with people through social media, the liklihood that you will raise money not only within your home state, but in multiple states, goes up. Diversifying your pool of donors is great, but

The study was conducted by Alan Brown of WolfBrown , the same firm responsible for a similarly enlightening project surveying people in California’s Inland Region . Orchestra Market Research ............................................... Subscribe to blog via email | Subscribe to bi-weekly email newsletter Photo: LIttlelakes . As I noted last Friday , Beth Kanter , Alison Fine , and Katya Andresen all weighed in recently on the recession and its effect on arts organizations. At the end of her post, Beth suggests, “Maybe arts organizations

There's a story there with actual individuals being affected. Such was the storyline for a campaign by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which told a universal tale of survival to communicate about the kit fox problem in Northern California. Information in the context of a story is dramatically more compelling than straight facts. Should they email a specific point person? If you heard that a certain type of fox is endangered, would you be moved to act? How about if you heard that a mama fox was trying to keep herself and her litter safe as their forest disappears? Now that's different.

Kind Readers:Marisol from Pasadena, California is the latest person to join the Cause-Related Marketing Googlegroup.You can join, too.When you do, each new posting to Cause-Related Marketing comes directly to your email box.As an inducement, everyone that joins receives a copy of the "Five Flavors of Cause-Related Marketing," which explains Cause-Related Marketing in an easy-to-follow matrix an

The Edge Group in Washington and California is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with a $1,000 award . The winner will be announced via email and on The Edge website on September 15, 2009. I’m always trying to let you know right away when I learn about a new online award or grant. They believe that nonprofits often describe themselves with such generic language that they become invisible to the communities they are in.

Let's say your organization has a branch in California. Compare the time it would take to write copy, set up an email, if you are really technical, make sure it renders properly across all possible platforms and create versions for HTML/ text-only versioning. Even if you are an organization obsessed with the details of executing perfectly rendered emails, in a crisis, an email could easily get out the door in 48 hours. Regardless of where you stand on DM-it's dying, it's set-up for growth-one thing most of us who delve in the DM world can agree on is that compared to web-based fundraising channels, DM is not particularly agile.

Representative George Miller (D-California) proposed an original draft of the bill approximately a year ago. The plan would apply only to loan payments made after October 1, 2007. " [September 10, 2007; News Updates email] Needless to say, this is a progressive potential hiring recruitment tool for the non profit sector! The recent American non profit sector's hiring whoas are about to be lessened. If President Bush signs H.R.