ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You want to help the homeless? It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. One more example of how important it is to remember that, no matter how small the donation, each and every donor is important. ASU Lodestar Center.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For example, instead of something like “WestwoodHumaneSocietyGivingTuesdayCampaign2021,” try “WHS21.”. For example, LinkedIn is a professional network where people generally discuss issues related to the workplace and share professional updates. For example, do you want to raise 10% of your year-end fundraising goal?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

Habitat for Humanity has been working to serve the nearly 100 million homeless and 2 billion people living in slum housing around the world since 1976. For example, Excel Online allows multiple users to update a spreadsheet simultaneously. Habitat uses both Office 365 Nonprofit and Microsoft Office. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

I've been experimenting with vlogging and looking for examples by nonprofit organizations. Perhaps there aren't any examples. There are a handful of emerging examples of vlogging in nonprofit land that have moved past some of the barriers. contest with cash prizes. Update: I was wrong. " (Hmm. editing equipment.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Give some examples from your organization’s work, protecting the privacy of everyone involved. Aim for about 700 words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. And, yes they did ! It's your choice.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. HTML EXAMPLE Image: Siobhan Aspinall with Umbrella at The Digital Nonprofit 201 : Elijah van der Giessen via Michele Mateus / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden.

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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. After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Contest. Check out campaign examples like this one if you need inspiration. Check out this example from our donor retention guide showing the impact of a nonprofit increasing their retention rates by just 10%: To retain your own supporters this Giving Tuesday we recommend the following tips: . Fundraising Letters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. UK examples.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Check out the example below: Although there is only one winner there are certainly no losers. (b) Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter? b) Void States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. This can inform.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. Before you post, think about what THEY want to know. What are they interested in? Saving bears? Children? JUST for fun!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution. Social Tactics.

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JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal.

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MAY 18, 2021

For example, if your organization is hosting a 5K and your city has a ton of publicly accessible trails, it may be sufficient to provide your attendees with a list of trails in your area and an app they can use to track their distance. John Center for Homeless Men recently held their virtual house parties fundraiser, which was a huge success!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? We also asked the community to vote and rate the examples. Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). Nonprofits, for example, may also create a list of the best online library resources for their niche. They should be publishing this data and letting others in the niche know about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Over the past year, large corporate brands have embraced Facebook apps from companies like Wildfire (purchased by Google), Buddy Media , (now part of Salesforce) and WooBox, for things like coupons, sweepstakes, and contests. Others have spent tens of thousands of dollars to build custom Facebook apps from scratch. Happy Endings for All.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something. Take for example contests. Photo by Martin Heigan.

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