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Friday, December 2, 2011

Fired-Up Fundraising: Top 10 Things Donors Want From Your Web Site in 2011 | Fired-Up Fundraising | Gail Perry Associates

Don't forget to sign up for ESCH's UH-MIS program! Nonprofits have until December 20, 2011, to have a team of senior MIS students help with your database, website, networking problems free of charge next semester. Quite a bargain! Call 713-780-2208 with questions.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Secret Santa Gives Hope to the Weary

A little story to brighten your day -- there is hope!


Secret Santa Pays It Forward with Cash to Strangers—$20,000 Worth


November 30, 2011; Source: MSNBC | How to encourage community and philanthropy. . . . Reading, PA, has been designated the poorest city in America, and the day before yesterday it was where a man calling himself “Secret Santa” distributed $20,000 in one hundred dollar bills to strangers. The man, whose name is not available but who appears to be a successful businessman, is apparently carrying on the tradition of Larry Stewart, who, as his own version of Secret Santa, gave away $1.3 million to pay forward a handout that had been given to him in the past.Secret Santa only asks that those he gave to pay it forward, and he plans to head to other cities in the coming weeks.