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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online. Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year. Sports tricks contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. All are captured here ).

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3 Easy Ways to Sell More Tickets

Tech Soup

I actually came from a very for profit industry; I managed a live music venue. Amazon will mail you cereal. Radio Promotions — Call to Win Contests. Facebook/Twitter Contests: Share/Re-tweet for a Chance to Win. This guest post was authored by Kristen Gastaldo and originally appeared on npENGAGE.com.

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75 Top Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

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Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. We’ve recently seen a slew of music award shows and individual musicians performing in hybrid concerts: the artist performs on a stage like normal, but to an empty venue, while that performance is streamed live to spectators at home.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

Amazon, Facebook, and Ebay have all had ways for consumers to donate through their platforms for years, but what is different about this trend is that a specific charity is leveraging a technology platform to source free or discounted supply to meet its demand. Learn more on Twitter by following the hashtag #uberspringcleaning.).

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