article thumbnail

100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). It doesn’t have to be a gift. Then help implement these tools.

article thumbnail

12 Ideas for a Virtual Fundraiser or Online Event

Get Fully Funded

Carefully evaluate each idea so you can choose the one that will bring you the most money and awareness for the least investment of time and money. Online Contest: Online contests are fun, easy, and interactive. Here are some ideas: Talent contest: Perfect for an arts organization. But not all of them are right for you.

Virtual 111
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of " embedded giving." That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Here's my contest. Tags: contest.

article thumbnail

Fundraising Roundup

Care2

This decline was driven by a drop in the average gift size. What’s the ROI of Online Voting and Fundraising Contests? Beth Kanter has a terrific post about evaluating nonprofit commitment and investment in sponsored fundraising contests. But as Frogloop reported last month , online fundraising grew overall by 4.5%

article thumbnail

3 Nonprofit Success Metrics That Your Organization Needs to Be Tracking

NonProfit Hub

Evaluation is straightforward. With nonprofits, evaluation is not in bold and it is dimly lit. When you are just beginning to perform evaluations like this, you want to lead with metrics that reveal the most about your nonprofit’s performance overall. 3) Average Gift Size. Do you know your average gift size?

Metrics 28
article thumbnail

See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Contest: User Generated Crap, er… Content

See3

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. A common form of contest among companies is the “create a commercial&# contest. Among organizations, contests may seem like a short-cut to get compelling content, and cheaply. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

Contest 40
article thumbnail

See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Just when you thought the election couldn’t get more fun…

See3

Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

Fun 45