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    Native Facebook Fundraiser Challenges for nonprofits: what you need to know
    It’s safe to say that Facebook Challenges have been the “rising star” of the peer-to-peer fundraising world over recent years. And it’s not hard to understand why. By harnessing the power of online co...
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    How to run an In-Memory Facebook Fundraising campaign for Father's Day
    Father’s Day is typically a day of celebration. But for many, it’s really a day of remembrance. At a time of grief, fundraising can give people a reason to take their heartache and turn it into hope. ...
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    Is optimizing Facebook Ads for lowest cost per lead giving you the best Fundraisers? 
    The standard acquisition strategy is for Facebook Lead Ads to recruit as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. But are nonprofits sacrificing quality for quantity by focusing too much on th...
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    How can I check that my nonprofit has Facebook’s Giving Tools?
    Facebook's Giving Tools allow you to raise money and awareness of your cause on Facebook but how exactly do you get them and what do you do with them after that? Using social media as part of your fun...
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    How to create Facebook Donate Button Posts
    Adding the Facebook donate button to Facebook posts is a somewhat hidden type of fundraising with Facebook Giving Tools that not many nonprofits are taking advantage of… until now. Here’s how you can ...
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    Five reasons NOT to contact the donors of Facebook fundraisers
    We like to say that there are two different types of donors: those who donate directly to the nonprofit via the Donate button (we call these “direct” donors) and those who sponsor a friend via a fundr...
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    Five actions to leverage the power of Facebook fundraisers
    Earlier in the year, I presented on how to leverage the power of Facebook’s Giving Tools for Fundraising Online, a global virtual conference run by the Resource Alliance. In this post, I share the fiv...
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    How to target Facebook Ads to potential Birthday Fundraisers
    For many of our GivePanel customers, Birthday fundraisers generate over 90% of their income from Facebook, so an obvious question is: “How do I get more people to set up a Birthday Fundraiser for us?”...
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    Case study: How one charity increased birthday fundraising income by 400% with Facebook Ads
    Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. They operate throughout the UK and support anyone who has been affected by the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive...
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    Facebook Birthday Fundraisers: How to generate more fundraisers
    How can you market Facebook Birthday Fundraisers to encourage more people to fundraise for your nonprofit? Here are five ways! Since the launch of Facebook’s Giving Tools, $1 billion has already been ...
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