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Kickstart Your Supporters with 5 NEW Fundraising Contest Ideas

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It’s a great time to start fundraising contests if you’re managing or helping run a fall fundraising event. But as you go about your planning this season, I’d like to get you thinking about contests a little differently. What’s great about task-based contests is that you’re encouraging participants to use online tools.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

YouTube: youtube.com/BigCatRescue. million dollar budget, around $16,000 has been generated via YouTube’s Google Checkout and other donations via PayPal. In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Name: Carol Baskin.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

YouTube: youtube.com/thetaprootfoundation. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Be Informed. Canvas door-to-door.

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

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It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. 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.

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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

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TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. YouTube Capture (iOS). Don't forget about YouTube! Make your videos viral-worthy with YouTube Capture , an app that makes video editing intuitive. The generic soundtracks, for example, should be skipped.

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44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

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For example, The Ride For Roswell event has seen an increase from $330,000 to $2.8 As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity.

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