fundraising

Fundraising is the act of receiving money or resources by asking for donations from individuals, businesses or charitable foundations.

Some fundraisers offer taxable deductions, such as money given to churches and non profit organizations.

There are many groups that do fundraising such as schools (for fields trips for example), sports teams (uniforms), non-profit organizations (animal shelters) and churches.

There are many methods for raising funds and the popular ones include: car washes, selling chocolate bars or other candy, bingos and raffles.

A few famous fundraising efforts are Bad Aid, Live Aid and Sport Aid which help raise funds for the famine in Ethiopia.

You'll find bloggers talking about fundraising at sites like the Donate A Car To Charity blog and Fundraiser Ideas.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “fundraising”

• in Politics
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• in Politics
  Where Presidential Hopefuls Get Their Money: Quarter 3 Update!
  Where are the candidates getting their money in their race to the White House?
  by lukestanek / on Oct 18, 2011
• in Politics
  Quarter 2: Where Presidential Candidates Got Their Money
  The money trail is an interesting trail... see who supports whom in the 2012 Presidential Election!
  by lukestanek / on Oct 2, 2011

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• Director of Institutional Advancement – JSerra Catholic High School (San Juan Capistrano, CA)

  
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• Venture Debt as Growth Capital? You Bet.

  
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• My Damn Channel Seeks $20,000 On Kickstarter For ‘Love Me Cat’

  
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• News Release: The Community Cycling Center Celebrates New Workshop Space with a Spring Fundraising Party

  
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  Celebration includes Russell Street Bar-B-Que, Hopworks, Metrofiets, a bike museum, and more May 20, 2013 – Portland, Ore. – The Community Cycling Center is celebrating their new workshop space with a spring fundraising party on Friday, May 31st, from 7:00 to 10:00pm. During the event, the Center will offer ...
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• Help Us Wrap Up the Political Carnival Spring Fund Raiser #TPC

  
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  Its Fund Drive Time for The Political Carnival. Our Support TPC page is at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/supporttpc/ . We could really use the help. Thanks! We’re long overdue for our quarterly fundraiser, mainly because we are so reluctant to have our hands out, but, as Nickelodeon used to say, “A ...
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• University fundraising: what the UK can learn from Canada

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Major donors are motivated both by the excitement of giving and the satisfaction that their money has been put to good use, finds Andrew Derrington on a recent fundraising study trip Canada is a good place to learn about university fundraising because the giving culture is fairly similar to the UK, but its practice ...
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• Chinese Firm Plans US$1 Billion P.E. Fund

  
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  Chinas Fosun International hopes to raise US$1 billion for its second dollar-denominated private-equity fund. read more
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• 4 Things You Need to Get a Business Up and Running

  
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  Starting a business can be an extremely challenging process. There are so many different things a business needs that it could seem overwhelming. Fortunately, there are really two things a business needs to have potential in today’s world: A good idea and appreciable execution. But that gives everyone the premise of ...
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• First on CNN: RNC raises $7.2 million in April

  
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  (CNN) - The Republican National Committee raised $7.2 million in April, one month after releasing its rebranding and outreach efforts following the presidential election loss in 2012. Last months cash haul brings the committees cash-on-hand total to $9.8 million, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will announce Monday. ...
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• Amy Sheng: Using Mobile Tech to Create a Digital First Aid Kit for the Home

  
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  The NextWomen Tech Theme. Amy Sheng is Co-Founder of CellScope , a venture-backed mobile health startup creating a suite of optical attachments for smartphones to enable remote diagnoses. Its first product is the CellScope Oto, a smartphone otoscope for capturing diagnostic quality ear images and videos to ...
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• Clearing Out Mom’s Basement Sale

  
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  A week to go until I hit New York again, so Mom axed me to clear out some of my crap out of the Basement. Records, CD’s and even a tape are on Discogs if you want to buy stuff and junk. Clearing Out Mom’s Basement Sale The post Clearing Out Mom’s Basement Sale appeared first on unkut.com - A Tribute To ...
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• Donations for Ghana

  
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  Report from Mrs Sinclair Erin Eadie and Louise Murray would like to thank everyone for their kindness in donating materials.  I think that their cases are now jam packed with ‘goodies’ for the children in the school in Ghana.  They … Continue reading →
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• Reader Questions: Raising money for kiwanis clubs

  
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• The Political Carnival Spring Fundraiser #TPC- Please Help

  
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• This is sleazy...even for Republicans

  
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• Why We Do What We Do–A Guest Post by the Spark Collective

  
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  If you’re like me, you may go unaware of others’ needs that exist outside of your daily routine. You would like to know. You would like to help. And then, you read an article about human trafficking, see a video about starving children, hear a friend talk about abuse and depression, watch a news clip on people ...
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• Video Overnight Thread- Adorable video of children trying different foods for the first time

  
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  Its Fund Drive Time for The Political Carnival. Our Support TPC page is at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/supporttpc/ . We could really use the help. Thanks! We’re long overdue for our quarterly fundraiser, mainly because we are so reluctant to have our hands out, but, as Nickelodeon used to say, “A ...
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• Nightwalker Cinema Indiegogo Promotion Campaign

  
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