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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Saying Thanks
November isn't over yet so there is still time to participate in NTEN's Member Appreciation Month activities and Epic Change's TweetsGiving campaign is this Tuesday-Thursday. But, those aren't the only ways to say, "thanks." At this time of year many organizations send messages of thanks to donors, supporters, volunteers, and their wider community. In this month's
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New Social Portal for Blood Donation: Thank Your Donor
We've developed a new social portal that allows blood recipients to say thanks to their unknown donors. Thank Your Donor gives a chance for people to hear all the positive effects that their blood donations are having.Â
We're hoping this will encourage more people to donate!Â
Check out one of the videos that a recipient made to say thanks:Â
Study suggests that RSS is not as good as e-newsletters for building relationships
So says a study by the Nielsen Norman group, which I wrote about in my blog, studio 501c.
DonorsChoose
URL:
www.donorschoose.org
Project Description:
DonorsChoose is a nonprofit organization which facilitates support for education in the American public school system. Teachers can submit school project proposals on the website in any of the following categories: math & science, literacy & history, arts & music, physical education, field trips, and more. Individual donors, called Citizen Philanthropists, select which projects to fund, either partially or in full.
Once a Citizen Philanthropist chooses a school project to support, DonorsChoose delivers the requested resources to the school. The teacher documents the funded education project using a disposable camera (also provided by DonorsChoose), and sends back the camera with hand-written thank you notes from the students involved. DonorsChoose develops the project photos and sends them with an expenditure report, a letter from the teacher, as well as the students' thank you notes to the donor(s).
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