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      Raising money online – it’s a paradigm change, happening

      By: Larry Biddle  |  February 6, 2006

      In the February 2006 issue of Wired magazine on page 54, “Click Here to Donate,” a  graphic illustrates the results of recent disaster relief online fundraising and includes a comparison of traditional techniques of low-dollar fundraising.  

      Low-overhead online fundraising isn’t big news to those of us helping nonprofits learn how to get their website current with the best internet practices.  It is still a bit new for most fundraising organizations.  I feel the resistance to changing to online fundraising is high.  For most nonprofits, change is hard and resisted. more

       

      Build the Memorial

      By: Larry Biddle  |  September 10, 2005

      When
      I think about September 11, 2001, I remember how alone I felt
      that day. Two weeks before, I had moved to
      Portland, Maine for a new job. (I later learned
      those hijackers flew right over me on their way to the Boston
      airport.) Here I was in a strange place and didn’t
      know anyone. The world had turned upside
      down. The sense of doom and confusion took me back to when I
      was a kid in the ‘50s, growing up with the ever-present fear
      of bombs dropping from the sky. In school we
      practiced hiding under our desks to protect ourselves. Even
      then I suspected that was useless, since I knew a bomb would vaporize
      everything,  including me. more