General Fundraising

May

22nd

2013

Four Ways You Can Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims

May 22nd, 2013 by johnhaydon
oklahoma-tornado

Obviously we are all still reeling after a massive tornado tore apart Moore Oklahoma. Parents lost their children, children lost friends, neighbors lost neighbors. And many people are still missing! Family and friends first • For those who have family and friends in the area, Red Cross Oklahoma set up a resource to locate loved…

May

6th

2013

Why You Should Support @HardlyNormal’s At Home Campaign

May 6th, 2013 by margie
Photo by Kamil Porembiński

I remember one of the first times I encountered a homeless person. They shook a little cup full of change as I walked by. I wanted to give some change but I was warned against it. “They’ll probably just use it to get beer,” I was told. I remember a scene in the Terry Gilliam…

April

29th

2013

The Need Lasts Longer Than the Attention

April 29th, 2013 by margie
Photo by RHINO NEAL

Every year, starting right around Halloween, we get bombarded with messages about hunger and the homeless. The temperatures are getting cooler, the days are getting longer, and I think people feel a little guilty about enjoying a decadent holiday season unless they give at least a little bit to someone who needs it. By the…

April

15th

2013

Personalizing Communications: Dear . . . Whoever

April 15th, 2013 by sohini
Photo by victor.ramos

We live in an age of no online privacy and oversharing, would you agree? We make it easy for marketers to get to know us, our likes, our dislikes, our browsing habits, our personal information. And yet, impersonal, or oddly personalized emails can still show up, sometimes from mailing services we opted in to. To…

March

18th

2013

Marking MS Awareness Month

March 18th, 2013 by margie
Photo by KOMUnews

There are so many awareness days, and sometimes it feels overwhelming. In any given week you can have a ladybug awareness day, a cancer awareness day, a snowflake awareness day, and a banana awareness day. The goofy ones seem to undermine the ones that really matter. That being said, March is designated as an awareness…