CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2021

If you’re part of a sorority or fraternity or an alum of a fraternal organization, you know that an important element of your Greek life is fundraising for your organization. One of the hallmarks of Greek life is tradition. You could create faux Olympic games as a peer-to-peer fundraiser, do a sleep-out, or host a costume contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. 1. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos. Games are even more engaging.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Here are some great examples that are pretty easy to acquire: Fishing equipment Boating items like life jackets Outdoor cooler Camping equipment and sleeping bags Outdoor camping cookware Good hiking sneakers or boots National Parks pass. You might even host a quick superhero trivia contest to test your attendees on their superhero knowledge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. To the Arctic was the official companion book to the IMAX film, To the Arctic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. To the Arctic was the official companion book to the IMAX film, To the Arctic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. I’m even using it to promote my book, The Networked Nonprofit. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

Last month, TechSoup and Adobe announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest. This week, we are featuring the winner of the Social Change category in print and photo: Project Kindle's Book, I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle Share Their Stories of Living with HIV/AIDS.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

Work-life balance is more easily distinguished by going into the office and returning home to unplug and focus on our personal lives. Virtual Book Club or TV Club. If your company already has an active book club, it should be rather seamless to shift your in-office meetups to a virtual setting. More on that below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. 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.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life! Whether your auction is live or silent, participants will enjoy the opportunity to bid on and win items, especially because people are typically working to get gifts for loved ones and book travel around this time of year. Let’s get started! Request Demo.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In October 2017, she published her first book, “Permission To Screw Up,” in which she tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H.

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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. Braided River — Second-Place Winner.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Take any regular group meetings that have gone smoothly in your life. Some boards create team-based contests to see who can bring the most guests to the annual event, while others are lucky enough to have recruited a candidate who keeps the group laughing regularly. Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

But first, let me share the description and what I’m planning: This interactive session is based on a key theme in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. SoTropia Life in 2040 Let’s peer into the near future.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

As a part of the "Tech 4 Faith Story of the Month Contest" we invited Faith-Based Organizations to tell us about the great work they are doing. On Darcy McLane’s first service trip to Malawi, she experienced something that would change her life forever: She met Isaac. Work Inspired By A Child’s Death.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

He has 500 professional how-to and reference books in his office. She authors the award-winning Networked Nonprofit Books published by J.Wiley and published the The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout. Results were all that mattered. It taught him to respect research. Know what you’re doing, don’t guess. Dan Pallotta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. View more presentations.

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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. I picked Nancy 's name out of a hat this morning ( I really did use a hat), so Darius will be mailing her a free copy of the book!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition. This webinar is designed to deliver an actionable blueprint for fundraising success based on real-life examples of nonprofit virtual fundraisers. 20) Book club. 16) Hybrid costume party. 21) Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She is the founder and president of Weinreich Communications , and wrote a book called " Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide." As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I see that you???ve

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. Within the museum, we have a big initiative to tie together comment books electronically, so that gallery comments go on the web and web comments go in the galleries. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1,

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Introduce a Book. Photo Contest. During the pandemic, face masks have become a necessity in everyday life. Or, offer an all-day auction, contests, and other activities for them to get involved and help you raise funds. . Introduce a Book. Alternatively, try introducing the book on Giving Tuesday itself.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

A totally bizarre title, contrived by the publisher since memoir-writing was not “in&# when the book was published, Rosen overlays the two very different stories of his grandmothers with a meditation, mediated by a literary view of Jewish history, on change and alienation. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Book entertainment like a live band and add in videos of your emcee showing off various auction items to drive bids and give your participants a better idea of what they’re bidding on. Set aside a day or designate a period of time where your students attempt to read as many books as they can. Discount book sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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See3

MAY 12, 2007

This Michael Hoffman lives in Chicagoland, and does not write fake history books or act in movies, unless you count this one. You might try publishing a book. Not very practical in real life, I know, but that would also mean we could all get our own domain name! Naval Academy. I am not a corporal in the Marine Corp.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life. A twist on this is a kind of contest with a big payoff for the organization at the end. [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Thank you for your commitment to global social justice and support of AJWS.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

As life is turning somewhat back to normal, what will fundraising events look like in a post-COVID world? For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Leverage this feeling with a holiday-themed peer-to-peer campaign.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can up the ante by building your party around a costume contest and encouraging attendees to get sponsorships for their participation. Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. Book Sale Book sales offer a literary haven for bookworms.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. Smartphones are also getting cheaper.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Competition: This is an event where you gather participants to compete against each other in some sort of contest. It could be a charity 5k, a pie-eating contest, or a battle of the bands. Virtual events can be good for guest speakers, book readings, or online gaming. When your organization has a win, don’t be shy!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

But the issues raised and the ideal presented are still highly contested today. I'm enamored of the superstar as well, and wrote about it at length in this post about exhibitions that change your life. Tags: exhibition design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum professional development.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Closing the books. Would you like to change a life in 2016? Your year-end gift helps others find life after cancer. 3 days left to change a life. Still a Little Time for a Life-Saving, Tax-Deductible Gift. VIDEO: ‘Life of Pi’ Tiger Owner Caught Viciously Whipping Young Tiger. Deadline: Midnight.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. How much time do we have?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. How much time do we have?

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