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Idea Starter: HomecomingBlitz for World AIDS Day 2008

Is anyone doing anything for World AIDS Day (12/1/08), or open to a voluntary industry-wide proposal? Does anyone remember when Pastor Rick Warren's asked this question during the presidential debates? "...there are 148 million orphans worldwide, would you commit to a plan for them, as Bush did for AIDS?" Realtors alone cannot implement an emergency plan for AIDS orphans, but they can INVITE MILLIONS OF CLIENTS to make donations to existing non-profit organizations through an annual, friendly… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on November 14, 2008 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Add your favorite cause or charity to "Community Commission" model

Home buyers & sellers: Help coauthor fund raising letters for rebates in the pipeline by adding your favorite charity or cause to our "Community Commission," an open fund raising model other real estate "change agentsContinue

Added by Bill Wendel on January 18, 2008 at 10:48am — No Comments

Billions in savings: Will real estate consumers extend a helping hand?

Giveahand

It's Christmas 2007, and I am visiting extended family

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Added by Bill Wendel on December 26, 2007 at 1:56pm — No Comments

SantaCause delivering "Gifts that Give Twice" via Twitter

Fellow ChangeAgents,

Using real estate commissions to support any local charities or causes this year for Christmas? Log onto Twitter (or join if you're a newbie), and tell @SantaCause about your cause marketing campaign so he can help spread the word.

If you follow @SantaCause his Twitter elves will let you about other "gifts that give twice."

That's t… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on December 9, 2007 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Philanthropy conference panel: "Raising Funds in Virtual Worlds"

Wish I could attend this session tomorrow at the Conference on Philanthropy being hosted in Boston. Anyone in real estate using SecondLife to raising funds? If so, please (1) share links to active or recently completed campaigns, (2) log in and share your case study, or (3) conduct seminar in person in Boston or a webinar open to real estate change agents everywhere!

Raising Funds in Virtual Worlds


Speakers: Randal Moss… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on November 26, 2007 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Proposed "St. Joseph Statue Buyback Program" will redistribute referral rebates to charities & causes

Nearly a decade ago, the practice of burying St. Joseph statues upside to sell real estate caused me to write "Beyond Superstition: Doing Justice to the "Just Man." When an article on the misguided practice became the most forwarded story in the Wall Street Journal last week, I decided to turn my "holy anger" into fund raising idea:
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Added by Bill Wendel on November 5, 2007 at 8:24pm — No Comments

Clinton: Fundraising by internet activists can exceed billionaires

Clinton book interview on NPR:

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3
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Added by Bill Wendel on September 18, 2007 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Online Fundraising Tactics: What Works?

Looking forward to reading this article from the Philanthropy News Center, and welcome your comments, too:

Online Fundraising Tactics: What Works?
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/techsoup/ts_item.jhtml?id=188800002
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Added by Bill Wendel on September 18, 2007 at 2:09pm — No Comments

More than passion, COMPASSION -- what do you DESIRE?

Got to love it -- Bono is singing "DESIRE" as the last session on "New Kids on the Block" wraps up at here at Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007, and Hugh MacLeod's question -- "Do you want to change the world?" -- is still echoing in my mind. The audience's enthusiastic "YES!" was more passionate than I would have ever imagined! Does that mean that every real estate innovator is a "change agent" and that there might be widespread inter

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Added by Bill Wendel on August 5, 2007 at 9:47pm — No Comments

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