Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The fundraiser—whether it’s an inspired event, online appeal or one-time contest—should of course be considered an important component of any non-profit’s campaigning effort. Create a timeline contest that encourages people to craft videos and photo sets boosting your fundraiser. Lean on your core supporters.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Team in Training has raised over $1 billion by rewarding the fundraising efforts of nearly half a million people. Participants receive incentives like travel arrangements and training for a world-class event for reaching their fundraising goal. Games, challenges, and incentives are not entirely new to fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities. Just as organizations (usually!)

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Team games are also perfect for webinars or training sessions as they will improve your attendee’s ability to learn. . We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Consider photo contests from both in-person and online attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2012

With strong roots in prior national giving events and contests such as Twestival Local and America’s Giving Challenge , we wanted Twive to have the same fun spirit of those early ground-breaking giving events. At the same we wanted to evolve the Twitter-based giving day with gamification and capacity building training.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech events case studies training crowdsourcing.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

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. Recruit some volunteer marketers, have them take the Google Ad Grant Online Course that will train them on how to manage this very particular type of advertising.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Host an online sports equipment drive so your team’s supporters can buy equipment your team can use to train and play with. Young aspiring athletes don’t always have access to the training they need to progress in their skills, but your team can help. Sports tricks contest. Virtual holiday lights tour and contest.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2012

New to TechSoup — the Adobe Foundation's Nonprofit Training Program provides a series of donated online training courses for Dreamweaver, InDesign, or Photoshop to nonprofit staff. Donations from this program allow one user to access Adobe software training videos on lynda.com for three months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training. Instagram Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I’m just back from two weeks of inspiring work where I participated in a training for women organizations in the Ukraine and the International Fundraising Congress in Holland. I am honored to be a judge for the contest! So, expect more some posts this week from about what I learned. How #MyGivingStory Works.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Useful tools for creating photo contests and custom tabs. Community Tech Centers Consultants Donors Fundraising Online Fundraising Training Volunteers nonprofits webinars GiftWorks nonprofit events John Haydon tsevents' Four tips for putting an opt-in form on your Facebook Page. Four tips for form design. Register today!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Training in home management, self-care, employment, and other skills are provided through Emmaus Homes. Based on the Amazing Race, contestants in this fundraising event compete as a team to drive around a given area to complete activities assigned to them by their Clue Master, with whom they communicate via text. The Emmaus-ing Race.

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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. 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.

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JULY 26, 2021

If you’re hosting an event for National Nonprofit Day, invite virtual volunteers to spread the word on social media or judge a live contest. . The Right Way to Onboard and Train Volunteers. Consider adding an online component to each of your in-person volunteer opportunities to expand your reach and connect with new audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. He plans to use the grant to create a training program to teach homeless people to use social media tools to tell their own story. Jessica shares how she helped in the contest. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that are organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training. Instagram Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

What role could digital medium-specific competitions or contests play in increasing demand? What training is needed to help non-communications staff identify, capture and create stories? There often isn’t a strategic approach to story collection. Are organizations using the rights tools to collect and store stories?

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

Small Non-Profit Uses Social Media Win Online Fundraising Contest :: PNNOnline ::: "Critical Exposure, a small D.C.-based

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

They’ve increased their fan base by 4 times or over 400 now – and the odds are good that there will be a truckload of food delivered to the Food Bank on October 4th. What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners” are the people who are served by the Food Bank. Tags: Training Design.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Contest is here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Using photos for online organizing is not limited to the US, it is global. Here is a recent example from Global Voices Online reporting on how activists in the Philippines used selfies to protest train fare hikes. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 20, 2019

One organization implemented a “Worst Grant Contest” in which staff told stories of, and voted on, the worst grants and projects of the year. Education regarding risk is built from the top down; educate staff either informally or through formal training about which goals are key. That needs to change.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2016

The Symantec Cyber Career Connection aims to fill the need for more entry-level cybersecurity professionals through an alternative training program focused on people of color, women, and veterans. This #GetToKnow chat is part of our Mission Possible contest with Symantec. See you on Twitter! Pacific time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

You Need Technology Training. Whether you're looking for basic tech training, hard-core IT training, or nonprofit-specific training, our list of nonprofit tech training resources has you covered. Prefer online training? But is it actually LEGAL to use that image? Find out in our image guide.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2020

Social media is also a great way to have a livestream, a coloring contest, or even a virtual challenge to solve a mystery. You may find that now is a good time to explore training and professional development opportunities to help you have a bigger impact. Instead, think of ways to connect by saying we are here and thankful for you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 28, 2015

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

Share Your #npfail story by April 30th and you will have a chance to win a Microsoft Surface or other schwag from the Case Foundation that is sponsoring the contest. They are also doing a sector wide survey on failure and innovation ).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. Tags: Multimedia & Graphics Running Your Organization Software Spotlight Training Volunteers.

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