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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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How to Build Your Nonprofit’s Email List

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You may have an e-newsletter list that includes all donors and supporters, another list specifically for repeat donors, and another list for supporters who have not yet donated. Promote an online contest and offer free giveaways where signing up for your e-newsletter is required to enter. Not all email lists are the same.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube Snubs Major Jewish Organization

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Today they got this letter: YouTube Broadcast Yourself™ Thank you for taking the time to submit your application to the YouTube Nonprofit program. Today they got this letter: YouTube Broadcast Yourself™ Thank you for taking the time to submit your application to the YouTube Nonprofit program.

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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. Ask any businesses you know with an email newsletter or other marketing budgets to promote the organization 1 or 2 times a year. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community.

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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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44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

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Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Newsletter. 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. Yep, that's a real person.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube as a Platform

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YouTube is now a platform. What this means is that you can do more embedding YouTube into your site, allowing people to upload video to your YouTube channel from your site and having people leave comments on your site that will end up in your YouTube comments. It can search them better and throw up ads against them.

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