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Sometimes, good direct mail is just downright ugly. On purpose. Maybe the goal is for the piece to look inexpensive and put together on the fly with whatever office supplies are at hand — or not done by a professional graphic designer. It implies frugality and no dime wasted on fancy, artistic, matchy-matchy stationery.

Writer-for-hire Rick Grant is back, and this time he untangles a fundraising website.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced nearly $20 million in funding from a dozen corporate and foundation partners in support of 100Kin10, a multi-sector initiative developed by Carnegie in collaboration with Opportunity Equation to prepare, deploy, and support 100,000 STEM teachers over the next ten years.

Since the initiative's launch at the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Chicago earlier this year, more than eighty partners have joined the effort.

Facebook is forming a political action committee, strengthening ties of the social networking giant with Washington politicians as the company also faces growing questions about how it handles users’ privacy. Facebook’s PAC “will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected,” spokesman Andrew Noyes said in a e-mailed statement.

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Here are eight ways to amp up your e-mail marketing and fundraising with social media.