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		<title>9.8 Build relationships that last</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Special 30th Anniversary issue of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal is out and our feature article by Kim Klein is available to read for free online! Back to Basics: How to Build Relationships that Last You’ve heard it before, but Kim wants to be sure you hear it again: Find a donor, not a donation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=915&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9.1 Create fundraising materials that get results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome Guest Blogger, Dalya F. Massachi! Please join Dalya and GIFT on September 13th for her webinar, Writing to Make a Difference: How to Create Fundraising &#38; Outreach Materials that Get Results. Click here or give Ryan Li a call at 888-458-8588 X301 to register and for more info and to register. Have you advanced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=905&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8.30 What Are You Doing After School?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Pompey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes it’s me.  I’m back for another blog installment.  First let me say I really appreciated Charles Long’s piece on the “Downtime of Summer.”  I think of summer as my season.  It’s all about vacations, birthdays, and the grandson. For this blog, I want to move a little bit away from the hard hitting stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=902&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8.18 The Psychology of Fundraising Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimkleinfundraises</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donor relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Kim: My organization is in the middle of our spring campaign and each staff and board member has committed to reaching individual goals.  I was close to reaching my goal last week and entered some &#8220;offline&#8221; donations to my fundraising page. Then I remembered that I had just sent out a couple of email [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=896&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8.15 Develop a member-led approach to grassroots fundraising</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join FIERCE staff and members on August 19th at 10am PT as they share lessons they have learned while creating a grassroots fundraising program that places leadership development at its core, addressing important questions such as: How do we engage in resource building that, like our other work, prioritizes the leadership of people directly affected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=892&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8.4 Report Back from PTO conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed pre-conference institute, “Beyond Silly Games:” Popular Education as a Methodology for Political Education, Leadership Development, Grassroots Organizing, and Movement Building with our brilliant and talented facilitator, Francisco &#8220;Pancho&#8221; Arguelles Paz y Puente. One of the things I was most looking forward to exploring within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=885&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7.26 The Downtime of Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraiser self-care and sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently here at GIFT we have been discussing downtime and how to make the best use of it.  We haven’t been talking about it so much because we have a lot of it, but because folks seem to use this slow fundraising season to relax and rejuvenate before Fall is here.  We are in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=881&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7-19 The Human Side of Major Donor Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theoyangcopley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donor relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month I am writing about what cori parrish at North Star Fund calls “the human side of donor programming.” Here I focus on progressive major donor programming, such as donor workshops and conferences.  This is something I have experience with, having attended and helped to design programs and retreats at Resource Generation.   To me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=875&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7.14 Develop fundraising leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GIFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraiser self-care and sustainability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July-August 2011 Grassroots Fundraising Journal Work Smarter, Not Harder Featuring: Developing Fundraising Leadership by Marjorie Childress The departure of an executive director naturally raises questions about carrying fundraising forward. The SouthWest Organizing Project learned that succession planning for shared fundraising responsibilities even before a transition makes the process far easier.  Read the full article here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=865&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7.12 Steps for Raising $20,000</title>
		<link>http://giftexchange.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/7-12-steps-for-raising-20000-for-a-high-school-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimkleinfundraises</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Klein: I am the treasurer of the Spanish Honor Society at my local High School. My goal is to raise approximately $20,000 in order to have all our club members fly to Costa Rica. We plan to volunteer at an orphanage there where we will teach the children English and organize activities for them. The problem is, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=giftexchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13157985&amp;post=858&amp;subd=giftexchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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