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What is the Design Center?

Running a school, non-profit, and/or a community can be a fun way to expand a hobby, help the community and have a socially responsible good time. Yet to survive you need money.

Today every type of organization is looking for creative ways to raise money, yet one untapped opportunity with unlimited amounts of ways to make money is thru the Internet.

Creative Eye is committed to helping your organization conduct its own fundraisers through various types of custom and personalized merchandise.   This site is dedicated to helping you understand the many different techniques to generate capital through your own fundraisers and/or online store using the Internet.

Please browse around our site, read our many different articles from organizations around the world, and participate in our forum as well as when you are ready make sure you explore our online catalog and start using the designer tool to create your own merchandise.

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Fundraise using the Internet!

The first step is setting up a website for your cause that has a clear design, that gets many visitors and encourages the visitors to come back again and again.

Next is to choose the different internet fundraising campaigns that will suite your website. In some cases it might be just setting up a few links and the money could start pouring in!

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Five Online Fundraising Tips

Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 07:20PM | by Allyson Kapin

Repeat after me. “I will no longer send out fundraising appeals with boring subject lines and long-winded pitches.”

In today’s battle of the inboxes, tweets, Facebook updates, text messages, and banner ads flying across the screen, organizations can’t afford to ignore online fundraising 101 strategies to motivate and inspire supporters to donate money. Don’t have the budget to hire fundraising strategists to help you craft your online fundraising campaigns? No problem. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way to increasing open and click-through rates and more importantly – raising more money for your nonprofit.

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Tips to for Starting a Clothing Line

Starting a clothing line is a detailed process that takes sizable investments of time and money. The apparel industry is ever-changing, with consumers spending billions on clothing in the United States every year. A new clothing line must be able to fit a target market in order to thrive; to grow, marketing and manufacture must meet the demand of the public. In order to be successful, a clothing line needs to follow several basic steps to build a solid foundation.

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When Opportunity Knocks

In this business climate, shops that analyze and plan thoroughly can secure additional equipment, work space, employees and even clients at great prices. Shops that make such moves without doing their homework, however, are living dangerously. Here’s how to determine the right acquisition plans for your firm.

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