ePhilanthropy Foundation Board Chairman, Steve Delfin, ePMT serves as Executive Director of the National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF) and its Community Investment Fund (CIF) which has been named winner of The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) 2005 Award for Excellence in Fundraising. NCUF will receive the award on April 4, 2005, during AFP's International Conference on Fundraising, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md.

Amazon.com is proud to announce that it is now accepting applications for the Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award, which recognizes and rewards nonprofit organizations whose innovative approaches most effectively improve their communities or the world at large. If your nonprofit is powered by breakthrough ideas, we encourage you to read more about our program and how to apply for the award.

Join us in San Francisco CA for the Nonprofit Internet Strategies 2005 eTour.

Learn from the very best of the world's ePhilanthropy Master Trainers. This series of half-day training sessions are among the highest rated available to nonprofits.

New in 2005:

-- Access to private training sessions
-- New eTour List Serve
-- All new content, strategies and case studies

             Join us for the 2005 Nonprofit Internet Strategies ePhilanthropy Training Tour
            eTour) presented by the ePhilanthropy Foundation and held in 30+ cities around the world (now in    
            San Francisco CA!). 

Go to:   http://ePhilanthropy.org/eTour  or 

http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=78224  to register online

or call 877-536-1245 

Justgiving now enables individual supporters to create an online personal fundraising page for ANY event or occasion that inspires.  They can create a fundraising page for a marathon run, wedding, in memoriam, a trek, dinner party or anything else.

The individual creates their own fundraising page and raises funds for you.  It’s effective for your fundraisers and easy for you!

Justgiving tools are:

• Easy- We set up the service for you and provide help desk support.
• Effective- Fundraisers raise significantly more money with these tools.
• Affordable- Performance based pricing ensures that our service makes sense for organizations of every size.

Check out our fundraiser of the month:

http://www.justgiving.com/pfp/Design/1/fotm.asp

Contact Kurt Steiner at 781-863-6166 or kurt@justgiving.com or visit us at http://www.justgiving.com/usa/get_in_touch.asp for more information on this offer and Justgiving.

http://www.ephilanthropy.org/eadvocates

Would you like to reduce your fundraising costs, increase the lifetime value of your donors, while making it as easy as possible for your donors to give on a regular basis? It may seem too good to be true, but with a successful preauthorized gift program, you really can achieve all these benefits for your organization.

Download this free white paper which tells you how; click here: http://www.softerware.com/asp/referral.asp?id=458

or by calling 877-536-1245

or email: ePMT@ephilanthropy.org and we will email the application to you.

Reminder: Those renewing their ePMT designation this spring also have the deadline of April 4, 2005 for their applications.

View positions posted to the ePhilanthropy Job Bank at:
http://www.imakenews.com/ephilanthropy/index000033520.cfm

To place your job announcement in the next issue, please use the online form at:
http://acteva.com/go/jobbank

For additional information, please call 877-536-1245 with any questions or send an e-mail to jobbank@ephilanthropy.org

Join the 500+ nonprofit organizations who have partnered with cMarket to create and deliver successful fundraising auctions online!  Increase your fundraising revenue, while engaging your entire constituency and advocating your cause on the Internet.   

For more information on incorporating a cMarket auction into your organization’s 2005 fundraising program or to learn more about fundraisers who have already realized the many benefits of online fundraising auctions, please visit http://www.cmarket.com/ep/.

While raising money is not new to you, how to do it effectively and efficiently is changing at a rapid pace. To keep up, you need two things-strong information management and a solid ePhilanthropy strategy. Campagne Associates is the one company that gives you both.
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Proposals now being accepted for NP Online Action, a $4.2 million technology product and service program that will improve technology and build networks within US-based nonprofit organizations starting March 2005.

All recipients of the NP Online Action program will receive:

- Professional web site to transform ideas into action
- Sustainable funding through online donations
- Shared learning opportunities through active partnerships
- Business software to maximize technical creativity
- Increased networks through online marketing
- Technology consulting from industry experts
- A name brand PC to increase technical innovation

The program is open to 5,000 qualified nonprofit organizations.

Visit our website to learn more and apply for the program http://www.charityadvantage.com