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	Why should I give your charity £100 now? Confident you can answer the killer question and persuade me? Stephen Pidgeon thinks fundraisers could do with a bit more practice at coming up with a fundraising proposition that's really going to persuade your donors to give   My big fundraising mistakes We all make mistakes at some point, but hopefully we can learn from them, put it down to experience and remember not to do it again. Lyndall Stein recounts some of her blips and how she's dealt with them. News from the Resource Alliance Resource Alliance designs capacity building workshops for PATH and VSO Guy Stringer: massive influence on fundraising Obituary 20 top corporate fundraising tips for fundraisers News from around the world  Nuts about Brazil: Brazil Fundraising Festival Five tips for creating and maintaining traffic on social networking sites	Upcoming Activities   Certificate course in Resource Mobilisation and Communications Delhi, India 21 August-25 September 2009 Certificate course in Resource Mobilisation and Communications Achimota, Ghana 7 September-2 October 2009 Fundraising & Communications Course Russia 14 September-1 October 29th International Fundraising Congress Noordwijk, Netherlands 20-23 October 2009