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How to Build a Gift Chart
What is a gift chart? It’s a planning tool to tell you how
many gifts and prospects you will need to raise a specific amount of money.

Creating a Successful Preauthorized Gift Program
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 by creating a successful preauthorized gift program,
you really can achieve all these benefits for your organization.

How to Market Your Planned Giving Program
Planned giving is not just about setting up the many planned gift vehicles.
It is also about marketing your program to donors and prospective donors.

What You Need to Know About Donor Disclosures
501(c)(3) nonprofits must abide by many IRS rules in exchange for their considerable tax advantages.
The most common rules have to do with donor disclosures.

Fundraising Fundamentals
Fundraising is the life blood of any nonprofit organization.
But, where do you start? Here is a briefing on the major methods
of fundraising and sources of those donor dollars.

The Art of Recognizing and Thanking Your Donors
Instead of fancy baubles or plaques, find inexpensive and
personal ways to thank your donors and connect them to your mission.

A Donor's Guide to Global Emergencies
The Middle East is the hot spot right now, but there are more than
enough emergencies around the world today.
We all want to help but are sometimes confused about how.

How to Break Into Corporate Employee Giving Programs
Not every charity is a good candidate for such programs,
but don't count them out if you are a new charity or a small one.
Here are some tips to pursuing corporate employee donor programs.

How to Do Product Fundraising Right
Here are frequently asked questions about product
fundraising and how to find fund raising products.

Earth/Environment Education

Earth Education - A New Beginning

T.R.E.E.

Sun/Earth Education -NASA

NAAEE

EPA for Teachers

Paleontology

Our Hoosier State Beneath Us

Paleontology Portal

Pipe Creek

Geology

Indiana Geologists

USGS - Indiana

Three Rivers Gem and Mineral Society

Indiana Geological Survey

great page from the same site:

Gravimetry of the Anderson Bedrock Valley of Central Indiana
Note: Selecting the link above will take you to the July 2003 issue of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society's newsletter. The gravimetry paper begins on page 11. Errata: The second equation on page 13 should read: h = hS - dO + gR / (2 π G Δρ); and, the explanation of Δρ in the sentence that follows the equation should read "Δρ (= -500 kg/m3)."

Coal, Oil, and Gas

Distribution of Mercury in Indiana Coals and Implications for Mining and Combustion

Petroleum Database Management System
A web application for an IGS database that contains information on more than 70,000 petroleum-related wells drilled in Indiana.

Mercury Content of Indiana Coals

Petrographic Characterization of Fly Ash

Chemical Properties and Petrographic Composition of Coal and Fly Ash: Examples from Indiana

Coal Mining Disaster: Could it Happen Here?

Indiana Coal Mine Information System

Coal Mining History

Oil and Gas in Indiana

Overview of Coal Research

Mineral Resources

Quarry Provides Setting for World-Class Nature Park

Indiana Mineral Industry News (quarterly reports)

The Mineral and Fuel Industry of Indiana

Indiana Limestone

Aggregates

Aglime

Water

Developing a Prototypical Predictive Model for Beach Closings in Indiana

Evaluation of Riparian Buffer Zones using GIS and Remote Sensing to Target Watershed Restoration Efforts

Evaluation of Ground Water in LaGrange County

An Evaluation of the Storage and Movement of Potential Contaminants in Soils at a Confined Feeding Operation

IGS Helps State Improve Waters Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage

Ground Water in Indiana

IMPORTANT: These map sites require Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.

A GIS Atlas for Indiana

Lake Rim GIS (interactive maps of Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties)

Indiana Coal Mine Information System

NATCARB—NATCARB is a project, in which the IGS is a research partner, to explore geological sequestration of carbon through linking geological and emission databases from several regional centers into a single interactive mapping system.

Bloomington Changes—A demonstration of how historical aerial photos and maps can be used to identify land-use changes through time