Fundraising

PayPal: Phishing, Fundraising, And In The Lab

Are you sick and tired of phishing attacks, those fraudulent emails designed to look like trusted corporations but aimed at stealing your personal account information? Today Yahoo (YHOO), together with eBay (EBAY) and its PayPal unit, started to roll out an authentication technology called DomainKeys that supposedly blocks malicious, fake eBay and PayPal messages from being delivered into the inboxes of Yahoo Mail users by allowing Internet Service Providers to automatically decide if messages...

The Future of Fundraising

Few and far between are major donors who simply write checks in support of the issues or organizations about which they care. In my experience, the vast majority are also pressed into fundrising, especially in their role as board members. All would do well to read Gayle Roberts blog, Fundraising for Nonprofits, which offers wide-ranging wisdom based on a life of experience in the biz. This post is in response to a challenge Gayle has made as part of the Giving Carnival which asks bloggers...

Hydrogyn frontwoman raising money for muscular dystrophy association

Julie Westlake , the metal songbird of the rock band HYDROGYN , has agreed to be a "jailbird" until she reaches or exceeds her fundraising goal for MDA . She will show her support for the cause by requesting donations from her friends and fans to "bail her out" of jail. The Muscular Dystrophy Association is a national voluntary health agency dedicated to researching and curing over 40 neuromuscular diseases. Proceeds for the "Lock-Up" fundraiser can go towards the ...