Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Provide water station stops and set up a picnic at the end for people that raise money. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. What is the definition of success?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day is to get 35,000 people to support their favorite regional charity, raising more than $3 million in donations and grants in just 24 hours! 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. Jessica shares how she helped in the contest. . He doesn't give up. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Care2

JANUARY 3, 2011

There is a lot of buzz about "free agent fundraisers" an individual using personal fundraising to raise money for a nonprofit organization. The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The title of this blog post is taken from an article posted over at Slate mostly talking about the Facebook component of the recent America's Giving Challenge, posing the question, "Can social networks and virtual communities revolutionize charitable giving?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Enter the 2009 America's Giving Challenge. Join DonorsChoose's 2009 Social Media Challenge to raise money for education. You could win a $5,000 or $2,500 donation in your name to the charity of your choice. You could win a donation of up to $50,000 for your favorite cause. Nominate and vote for your favorite Changemaker on Change.org.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And the better you get at the whole suite of donor engagement, the more money you’re going to raise. you know, we’ve got to raise $50,000 for this women’s shelter. Well, good afternoon, everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Here are the top 10. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner. " RE-Volv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. Make a donation on behalf of the Cambodians like my friend Phy that want to help us win this contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

There has already been over $20,000 for the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge raised through the unselfish giving of over 700 people like Peter Deitz. Contest ends on January 31st at 3:00 PM EST. It would be nice to have this built into the system in some way. There is exactly 48 hours left to donate.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge. and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Fundraising Campaigns and Presentations Camera Rwanda Photo Stream Post with an interview Street Kids Fundraising Campaign raised $8,000 from photo group Sharing Foundation Presentation annotated in a flickr photo set. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. A List of Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Roger Carr at the Everyday Giving Blog responded to my reflections about networked fundraising , particularly my concern about donor fatique and potentially annoying blog readers here when I'm raising money for the Sharing Foundation. The question is "when is enough enough? (in This is the one exception to the rest of this list.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Born to a dysfunctional family, Pamela was raised by her grandmother, who taught her that "no time spent on a child is ever wasted." With help from TechSoup and Citrix, New Heights is closing the education gap in America, and giving families the resources they need to provide a brighter future for their children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Several community foundations will be part of Give Local America , a campaign that encourages and supports local philanthropy and the 100th anniversary of community foundations in the US and the vital role they play. launched a meme contest, encouraging their nonprofit partners to create one to promote their Giving Day campaign.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

We will need to raise money for this effort, and there are lots of logistical challenges. Our broader goal is to invigorate Jewish life in America with the values of service and we hope that this effort can help energize a new generation of Jewish leaders to step up and act. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

Solo Ride to raise money for learning disabilities. contest with cash prizes. One America Committee Vlog : to engage in visual conversation. Right now, users can't submit their own videos and there are no RSS feeds, but. we're developing a drupal version that people can do both those things. " (Hmm. editing equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. She lives for what she does and adds meaning to many individuals lives.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Sure, he raised over $20 million for Haiti and an impressive array of non-profit organizations including American Red Cross , Oxfam America , Salvation Army , Habitat for Humanity , International Rescue Committee , and the United Nations Foundation used his services. I mean, seriously, is raising money all he can do?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and the award-winning author of two books, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause” and “Content Marketing for Nonprofits: A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Use Facebook to ask your folks for ideas for fundraisers, should we pick a day and everyone does their own thing like Red Nose Day , or should we have one event in person, maybe a lower key breakfast this year instead of a fancy dinner, or maybe a virtual event or contest? Don’t prescribe, listen and learn.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and TechSoup's Safer Online for Nonprofits initiative, TechSoup is raising awareness about how nonprofits are taking practical steps to keep their organization safe: in the office, in the field, and on the go. If you said "Yes!" " to these questions, keep reading.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

So please, don’t miss this special opportunity to contribute today – your donation will go twice as far and will help AJWS raise up to $350,000 for our critical work around the world! So in this vein, what other ideas for fund raising would you recommend? May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Carie says HSUS has raised $20k through the Causes app, though I’m not finding that in my search of Causes. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here.

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