DonorBridge: What do you think?

The day is here! DonorBridge has been unleashed unto the world...

What do you think?

Did your nonprofit participate? If so, what did you do and how did it work?

What can we do to capitalize on the positive energy built up by this campaign?

What needs to be tweaked in the future?

If you don't feel like commenting, please contact me via email:
http://www.jeremygregg.com/contact/

Also, if you're on Twitter, please follow the DonorBridge tweets here:
http://twitter.com/DonorBridge

You have 12 minutes to raise $25,000...

Well, friends, the night is finally here.

At midnight, the Donation buttons on all of the 300+ profiles on the www.DonorBridgeTX.org site go live . . . and hundreds of development officers around the community are going to be furiously entering credit card information into the system to secure their portion of the $300,000 matching funds.

Organizations can secure up to $25,000 in matching funds through gifts of no more than $2,500 each.

How long do you think it will take for the matching funds to be gone?

And how much more do you think we'll raise tonight?

If all 300 organizations hit the $25,000 cap, that is $7.5 million before the match.

How close do you think we can get?

Will you help us?

www.DonorBridgeTX.com

Help D.C. Central Kitchen to Fight Rising Food Costs

I received this message about a matching grant to the D.C. Central Kitchen and could not resist making a donation. I encourage you to do so as well -- they have the most remarkable donor stewardship system in place, which allows you to automatically login and see how much you've given. They also making it very easy to give a gift in someone's honor.

Help Fight Rising Food Costs
Food prices are rising and thousands of low-income families are in crisis. Every day, the number of people needing a simple meal is rising, yet the organizations providing those meals are strained.

With your support we can secure an affordable supply of fresh produce from local farms, and use that product to serve nutritious meals to those in need.

Our goal of $20,000 will allow us to purchase produce for the difficult months of June and July.

Act now and help us provide meals that will nourish the community.

Double your impact!
Your gifts will be matched up to $10,000 by Clark Construction

Learn more here:
https://secure.my-websites.org/supporter/donatenow.do?n=gFRg&dfdbid=1066491

Boone Pickens: World's Savviest Philanthropist?

OSU's highest profile alum has potentially managed to leverage $100M from the State of Oklahoma to match his latest 9-figure gift to the university.

Says ol' BP, "I got so much money, now I am just playin' with it."

OK, not really.

But close:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D90Q5T800.html

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"Fire sale! Half-priced endowments at Parkland!"

"The Dallas Business reports how a "$500,000 anonymous gift to the Parkland Foundation ... allows donors (to) establish an endowment with a gift of only $12,500 and be matched the remaining $12,500."

Learn more here:
www.parklandfoundation.org

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