Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Build excitement through your Instagram event promotion by posting teasers about your event line-up, contests, and ticket deals. Host contests and giveaways to boost engagement. Engage your followers even before your event by hosting Instagram contests and giveaways. Create rules for each of your contest or giveaway posts.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2023

From pumpkin carving contests to haunted houses, there are so many ways to embrace this new season with fresh ideas. Pumpkin Patch Create a charming pumpkin patch and offer fun activities like pumpkin carving contests, hayrides, and pumpkin painting. Adults may enjoy bingo, fall themed trivia, or pumpkin bowling.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 9, 2024

Mint Julep Making Contest Hold a friendly competition where guests create their best mint julep recipe. Entertainment Extravaganza Live music sets the perfect tone for a lively fundraiser. Check out more fundraising game ideas in our revenue enhancers downloadable guide. Let attendees vote on the winner (with a fee) and offer a prize.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year. Sports tricks contest. Give artists in your community a chance to submit their own designs for your next team shirt and turn it into a contest. Virtual holiday lights tour and contest. Virtual concert. Jersey or t-shirt sales.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Consider hiring a musical act, comedian, or hosting an office awards ceremony. Online Voting Contest. An online voting contest is the perfect holiday fundraising idea because it encourages your staff, supporters, or colleagues to get into the festive mindset! Consider voting on something that is silly.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! How about creating a virtual auction event themed around a type of collectible, like sports memorabilia or music memorabilia? Having the appropriate decoration, online branding, music, and food will be enough.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. Music videos. That will come later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Guests: Chris Burke (media artist, creator of This Spartan Life ) Eddo Stern (media artist, maker of Landlord Vigilante ) Alex Chan (creator of The French Democracy ).

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Pumpkin carving contest. For little kids and parents looking for a fun, festive way to get out of the house, all you’ll need is eerie lighting and music, a few dummies and some fake blood. You can combine this with other events, too—set up your apple cider bar near the exit and host a carving contest afterward!

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Cookie decorating contest. Snowman contest. Gather a group of music-loving volunteers and take them caroling around town for donations. Choose a local river or lake (get permission first, of course) and watch your daring supporters take the plunge. One of the best parts of the holidays is all the sweet treats that come with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest. Organize age-appropriate carnival games, incorporate a pumpkin carving contest, rent a bouncy house, and have your most artistic staff member or volunteer paint faces. You can run the event via Zoom, or have some teams in person and others on Zoom for a cool hybrid option.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Gingerbread house decorating contest. Put your supporters’ creative cookie construction skills to the test with a gingerbread house decorating contest. From “Jingle Bells” to “The Latke Song” and “Elf” to “A Christmas Story,” there’s no shortage of holiday music and movies to listen to and watch. Holiday concert or movie night.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Consider hiring a musical act, comedian, or hosting an office awards ceremony. Online Voting Contest. An online voting contest is the perfect holiday fundraising idea because it encourages your staff, supporters, or colleagues to get into the festive mindset! Consider voting on something that is silly.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Plot: Sue convinces Rachel and Finn that they must break into a rival school's choir practice room to steal sheet music. Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications. The deadline is October 26. Just don't steal my idea: Show: Glee. She convinces the rest of Glee to stage a show that they can all perform.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. Costume contest. If it’s getting close to Halloween, take costumes to the next level with a peer-to-peer costume contest. Cookie-decorating contest.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Then run a contest to determine the winner and a potential spot in an official calendar that’s sold to supporters (you’ll get at least 12 orders off the bat). Outdoor Music Festival.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have “tip jars” for people to show their support for their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Have a float race, water balloon toss, or watermelon-seed–spitting contest to raise additional funds for a cause. BBQ for Good. Mmmm, everyone loves a BBQ. Pool party for a purpose.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

NTCwinning 7: Musical Entertainment Photo by Trav Williams After the 2011 NTC, we decided that we needed to incorporate some music and local culture into the NTC. During the show, we always try to have some music throughout but it’s hard because NTC attendees talk A LOT and they don’t like it when you try to play music over them.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. Using the app's storyboard, you can add music and filter effects and place the clips in your desired order. Start gearing up for next year's TechSoup Digital Story Contest by checking out this year's winners.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket. Check out some additional examples at the recent SlideRocket Nonprofit Presentation Contest.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Take her specific case: marketing classical music to a generally younger audience on social media channels. Severn spearheaded a new marketing initiative for the San Francisco Ballet that used social media to grow audiences through a series of contests. Knowing who the audience was for each platform proved to be effective.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. They have a MySpace page , complete with music from the Talking Heads, and a blog (though it's not RSS-friendly). And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. Why wasn't this a huge success like the Oreo Jingle contest ? follow-through. What happened?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. Plug donor skills into the work.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Contestants lasted as long as 70 hours before MrBeast decided to end the competition himself! Each “house party” can have a theme, set activities, and music to differentiate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

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. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. All are captured here ).

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Hold a music related event. Focus on gathering people together and including fun side events or contests. Fundraise a walk or run which can be for a set distance or a number of laps. Register walkers and have them seek pledges for completion or per lap. Or take this idea to dancing and hold a dance-a-thon. Host a dinner or breakfast.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point. Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I actually came from a very for profit industry; I managed a live music venue. Radio Promotions — Call to Win Contests. Facebook/Twitter Contests: Share/Re-tweet for a Chance to Win. This guest post was authored by Kristen Gastaldo and originally appeared on npENGAGE.com. My background is not in the nonprofit sector.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

Whichever way you choose to go, your gala can include some or all of the following elements: Peer-to-peer fundraising led by table hosts Silent auction Live auction A program with an emcee, music, performance, information about your organization, and more Raffles and games Food and drink A fun theme Ask for donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

We’ve recently seen a slew of music award shows and individual musicians performing in hybrid concerts: the artist performs on a stage like normal, but to an empty venue, while that performance is streamed live to spectators at home. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The company currently has three mobile and web-based games available: Fantasy Kingdoms, Music Festivals, and Parallel Kingdom. Depending on your resources and budget, adding a gaming element to your organization's campaigns could be as simple as a social media contest or as elaborate as developing your own game-like app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

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. Get your camera ready and sniff out these instructions to enter our Dog Days of Summer photo contest. It takes pulling back, consolidating, and discipline not to bounce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I was little afraid that I might end up not only wasting time making music videos in Second Life, but actually composing a theme song. Perhaps inspired by his recent Second Life Photography Award , my favorite edtech blogger, CogDog (aka Alan Levine in RL and CDC Barkely (woof, woof) announced a NMC photo contest. (Be

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