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Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country.
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Health and wellness. Health and wellness advocacy groups often use mobile fundraising as a way to raise awareness as well as money. Disasterrelief. When most people think of text-to-give technology, they think of disasterrelief efforts. Environmental awareness.
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Lets say youre running a text-to-give campaign to fund your disasterrelief efforts. You can use impact data about how youve successfully helped natural disaster victims in the past to demonstrate the importance of gathering funds as quickly as possible to support even more people in need. Induce urgency.
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