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Charities Cry Foul on Chase Facebook Charitable Giving Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Very interesting to see the American Cancer Society on the list as its budget - according to a 2005 annual report linked on their Guidestar Profile is well over $10 million).

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What Lessons Will Pepsi Learn About Crowdsourcing for Social Good from Chase Bank Contest Fail?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. Arts & Culture. The grant categories will be: Health. Food & Shelter. The Planet. Neighborhoods.

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18 Successful (Yet Untapped) Fall Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest. Or simply allow folks to carve in advance and drop their beautiful works of art off to be judged! The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. The Testicular Cancer Foundation’s Beard Patrol campaign has got No-Shave November down.

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Going Virtual is Not Enough: Reimagining Traditional P2P Walks for Fall 2020 and Beyond

Connection Cafe

Option #3: Walk to The Beat of Your Own Drum inspires participants to “get their creative wheels turning” with ideas like a neighborhood car parade, community scavenger hunt, sidewalk chalk art installation, or online Bingo. In reimagining their fun run/walk, staff recently announced changes to their annual campaign.

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9 Mother’s Day Fundraising Ideas You Won’t Want to Miss

Whole Whale

In 2019, Art in Action partnered with a local outpost of popular national jewelry retainer Kendra Scott to host a local shopping day where 20% of proceeds went to AiA (including online sales through a custom link!). Find the artist among you and have fun creating a work of art that all moms might enjoy.

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Effective Fundraising with Facebook Causes

NTEN

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4 Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Also, the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation recently posted a humorous video about the importance of checking oneself for testicular cancer, which landed on the YouTube homepage and garnered well over one million views in three days. What trends do you foresee with respect to video use by nonprofits?

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