Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. . Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The grant categories will be: Health. The Chase Community Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. In December, I wrote about Pepsi's bold move of not spending money on Super Bowl ads for Pepsi beverages but using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've written a lot lately about contests ( Chase Community Giving and Pepsi Refresh ) here in the United States that are focused on "social media for social media." While Ennovent , a social enterprise, is very different from a major consumer brand in the US, I think we can learn a lot about the design of the contest. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Contest Information. Project submissions: November 5 – February 28. Register the application project on the contest website. For the purposes of this contest, Microsoft Citizenship recommends the TechSoup Hacker Help Wiki. What Are the Prizes? Best Overall Windows 8 Phone App: $15,000. Important Dates.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Examples include text-to-give campaigns, merchandise fundraisers, and virtual contests. Another way to fundraise without the burden of organizing a venue is to create merchandise specific to the campaign or project for your fundraising. There are countless ways to implement contests into your fundraising strategy.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 16, 2024

International financial services firm Baird now projects that a stock deal might go to $90 per share. Blackbaud also announced a $500 million stock buyback this past January and its CEO, Michael Gianoni, was arrested in February for suspicion of driving under the influence, which he is contesting in court. Clearlake already owns an 18.3%

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Organize a Pumpkin Carving Contest. Why not host a pumpkin carving contest? The easiest way to organize a pumpkin carving contest is to ask your school or a local business to host it. You can also hold a costume contest if you have enough people show up. 29th, 2022).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The Gifted Learning Project: Whenever you plan a fundraising event, double check the calendar and dates in all your external communications. Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Project: If asking your community to generate content, make sure they know how to use the platform and tools. Internal Planning and Project Implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Internet is catering to the platform more so than any other hardware platform, so if your website is not responsive, and your content is not showing optimally on smart phone screens, you now know what your next project is. 23% of Twitter users make less than $30,000 per year.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2009

contest in November, we asked everyone to take an online survey telling us some of the things they've done to reduce their IT energy use. We're happy to announce our three randomly-selected contest winners: read more. In our Unpower Yourself! We very much hope to continue to work closely with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. The Pepsi Refresh Project launched on February 1st. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Here's my analysis.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Alliance for Tompotika Conservation , Cacapon Institute , Project Kindle , and Project ABE take away the highest honors in the Adobe Show Your Impact 2009 Design Contest , co-sponsored by software company Adobe Systems Incorporated and TechSoup. The day has arrived.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2010

Adobe and TechSoup Global are delighted to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Show Your Impact Design Contest ! The image to the right is from is one of last year's winning submissions, Project Kindle's "I Know" book. You can read Project Kindle's full submission here. Enter Show Your Impact today !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

FightHunger.org is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millenium Development Goal They have just launched a viral video contest and are looking for a short, upbeat videos about ending child hunger. Have a look at this link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

You're looking at widget created by Lend4Health as part their participation in the Ideablob contest to win $10,000 for new small business ideas.   Then I looked at the other projects and noticed Nate Ritter  - whose used Twitter during the San Diego fires also had an idea.  

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. At Fifty & Fifty, Javan has participated in and led every project, including 300+ websites, campaigns, and brands. This, in turn, will foster a sense of community and increase your event’s visibility.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. At Fifty & Fifty, Javan has participated in and led every project, including 300+ websites, campaigns, and brands. This, in turn, will foster a sense of community and increase your event’s visibility.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

Another way to recruit volunteers is to reach out to local businesses and ask if they would be interested in sponsoring a volunteer day or donating supplies for a project. To get started, identify some prizes that would be appealing to your target audience and then promote the contest through social media, flyers, and word-of-mouth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

This month she is helping Project Linus and the Pajama Project). I'm introducing the the Green Charity Donation Contest! Well, I had to look no further than Little Laura's Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference for inspiration. Here's how it works: Leave a comment with your favorite being green tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The Photovoltaic Hybrid Car Project Originally uploaded by FreedomFromOil. Contest details are here: [link] Via Britt Bravo's blog at netsquared [link] The deadline is August 17th. Check out how flickr is being used to promote a nonprofit cause. Part of the campaign includes a photo context in Flickr using the tag freedomfromoil.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Without further ado - drumroll, please - the winners of the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest are: Print/Photo. Without further ado - drumroll, please - the winners of the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest are: Print/Photo. Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios. Other Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This process isn’t a popularity contest or a way to force a decision. Diminish pet projects. It is at this point, each person gets to vote for the ideas that they feel are the strongest. Sometimes I give participants red dots to use for voting, other times I might use fun stickers like those above. Build consensus.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Dig out that camcorder 'cause Quantum Shift TV has launched a video contest with social impact for students in the U.S. School Video Contest. Student teams will work on social or environmental projects of their choice and document their progress in a series of two short videos. Share the Story! by December 15, 2007.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

Last month, TechSoup and Adobe announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest. This week, we are featuring the winner of the Social Change category in print and photo: Project Kindle's Book, I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle Share Their Stories of Living with HIV/AIDS.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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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. Projects. That will come later.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

To celebrate their beta launch, they are offering a $10,000 Change Your World Contest Prize to the social change group or organization (this includes non-profits, student groups, volunteer networks, fundraising groups, or other networks organized around social issues) that starts a group on Razoo, and recruits at least 100 members by September 15th.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Here are some ideas to make the most of volunteers online: Data/Image Projects. Data hygiene projects. Expand this task to managing a public contest for supporters to email in pictures that volunteers can then clean up and put into the master library. Social media analytics report. Virtual Volunteer Tools Bundle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2006

Now FightHunger.org (a project of the UN World Food Program and partners) is launching a Walk the World Viral Video Contest. Read the contest rules before you submit your entry. To enter the contest first register and login to the site. hunger video contest The closing date for entries is 15 Dec 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Harry's last green tip introduced the Charity Contest that allowed readers to submit a comment that included a suggestion about how to save energy or be green and the name of a charity. We're going to continue to include the $20 Charity Giveaway Contest (I still have a few gift cards that I got as gifts to recycle.)

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. There are lots of examples of projects that use crowdsourcing, even this one!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Not the ones with the fake contests and contrived conflicts, but the ones that pit you against the weather, the wildlife, and the natural environment. It’s just the contestants against the hard, cruel world, and it either brings out the best or the worst in people.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

Galveston nonprofit tree organization vies to win $50,000 through online contest - Houston Chronicle : A community campaign to replace the tree canopy Galveston lost to Hurricane Ike is in the running for a $50,000 project award from Tom's of Maine.

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