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. It's ours.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

Canadian Cancer Society’s Neon Night for Childhood Cancer: Neon Night for Childhood Cancer is a non-competitive fun run/walk that takes place at night. Participants are encouraged to “wear their brightest gear to help illuminate the night all in the fight against childhood cancer.”

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MAY 25, 2011

million raised annually since 2004 by helping participants become fundraisers. So, how can you help supporters become fundraising superstars? Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. When approaching the media, though, they may need help. Let them know you’re there to help.

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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. It's ours.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

The anticipation of exciting events can help people persevere through trying times. They made it fun by challenging participants to a car decorating contest! Pan-Mass Challenge and Winter Cycle, benefiting the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name. Provide water station stops and set up a picnic at the end for people that raise money. Donations for Dad.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 1, 2016

In a similar fashion, Lacey Holsworth was an 8-year-old cancer patient who became special friends with Michigan State University basketball player Adreian Payne. Mickelson’s wife and mother were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. Holsworth and Payne met when she was visited by the Spartans in the hospital about four years ago.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Encourage supporters to use this information when creating their own fundraisers, which can help protect your nonprofit’s digital brand (and, make the process easier for the users creating fundraisers!) but this simple strategy can help you overcome it. Being inconsistent is. Consider pivoting your year-end events to Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Help supporters say “I love you, Mom” with some shiny, new bling. They also held a student art contest to design a special Art in Action necklace that could be purchased on the day, with an even higher percentage of proceeds going to the org. So how can you make Mother’s Day work for your organization? Jewelry for a Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Joe, what you are missing are the contest platforms,” said Michael. They just didn’t have the resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Five years ago today, I had to put down my black lab Sadie, at age 15, who was ailing due to cancer. They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. Life slows down. It is always a sad time of year for me.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4 million people who now write on the wall about their experiences with cancer, donate money to the Arkansas Children's Hospital, and post pictures on the cause. So, Michelle started a cause. Having multiple causes will only broaden the reach of your organization on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

Nonprofits are always looking for unique, creative, and effective fundraising events that will help them to stand out from the crowd. That’s why cancer research fundraisers that ask participants to shave their head are so viral. Interested in how a scavenger hunt might help you but missing the fundraising connection?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

That said, there are some basic things that might be helpful to think about. we just want to help you get your message out to the worlds largest online video community. I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests. I think the better question is, why not be on YouTube?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Posting in reactive mode and mostly posting pleas for help. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Donate, join, volunteer, help. Saving bears?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Does your event help you reach your fundraising goals? They combine putting and chipping contests with silent and live auctions, dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity to win a ton of fun prizes, all while raising money for their mission. May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest. What’s your event’s ROI? Spring Cleaning Sale.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

That said, there are some basic things that might be helpful to think about. we just want to help you get your message out to the worlds largest online video community. I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests. I think the better question is, why not be on YouTube?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

More experienced donors could also help new donors design a gift so that it maximizes its impact, and donors who want to move onto new projects could recruit new donors to take over funding responsibility for their old commitments. Ideablob.com of course! The website is such a great way to connect with entrepreneurs. Glassbooth.org blog.

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TechImpact

APRIL 16, 2014

Here are a few of those strategies that could help your nonprofit go viral. It could be Earth Day, Women’s Heart Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Centralizing your social media strategy around an event will help your nonprofit convey a more consistent message throughout the month. Sounds crazy, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

About a year ago, Facebook began rolling out a series of important changes, most notably the launch of Facebook Open Graph , designed to empower app developers (like us here at ActionSprout ) to create tools to help brands and organizations get more out of Facebook. These are powerful tools. Red’s Get Well Card. A big thanks to all of you!

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

And never mind the fact that the average age of the colon cancer patient tends to be well outside the typical Facebook target group. We’re pushed forward by the fact that colorectal cancer is still the #2 cause of cancer death in this country and it can be stopped with awareness and action. One vote per email address.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

And never mind the fact that the average age of the colon cancer patient tends to be well outside the typical Facebook target group. We’re pushed forward by the fact that colorectal cancer is still the #2 cause of cancer death in this country and it can be stopped with awareness and action. One vote per email address.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. For example, if your organization provides rent and utilities assistance and you have had a steep rise in requests for help, you could pitch a story about the crisis of middle class people falling into poverty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Adding an emoji periodically has been proven to help open rates too ! Offering free webinars, gated content (such as research reports or infographics), online contests, and online petitions have the ability to grow your email list quickly by hundreds or thousands, but require an ongoing time and financial investment to create the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My background is in public health, with an interest in using the mass media to help bring about healthy behavior change. ve also been interested in watching what the American Cancer Society has done with its virtual walk-a-thon in Second Life. And I have my blog, Spare Change, which I just started in January.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

The Over the Edge organization can help organize this for you. For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here at Qgiv, we’re invested in helping you raise more money, and we know how difficult it can be. See how Qgiv can help you with your fundraising campaign! Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. Get creative!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Link earning helps improve search engine rankings and drives traffic to the website. Provoking thought and invoking emotion contributes to link earning, but you can take it one step further and give people inclusion into an exciting event like fundraising, raising awareness, or a contest. Focus on Quality Content.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So, Kevin, we appreciate your help. . But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. . It could be, you know, my mom had cancer that’s why I’m doing this volunteer work for the cancer organization. . Will you help introduce us? Would you like to help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

One of them @peoppenheimer was kind enough to critic and help my own poem's meter and rhyme! Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Collected hundreds of “thanks” from people affected via Twitter and regular channels saying the info we provided on newsroom helped them navigate their situation better. Session Content 1.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Here is a Social InfluencerGPT trained to help nonprofits from CauseWriter.ai. We love how quickly orgs like Stand Up 2 Cancer can turn these out on Instagram. A consistent look will help establish your credibility as a content producer. Bonus points for adding visual elements like graphs to help drive the point home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

Maybe that camera could help someone create some change? I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. While it is a perfectly wonderful camera, still working, I had not been using it as much lately. The EPA undertook remediation , including depositing a layer of ???clean???

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