Care2

MARCH 1, 2011

Nonprofits spend years working on inspiring issues in hopes of changing the world. Here’s your chance to use your inspiration and write a poem that reflects your nonprofits mission and work. The contest is open to all nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

How does community-driven fundraising work to engage donors? National Volunteer Week runs the 3rd week of April in the United States and is organized by Points of Light. They’re giving you both sweat equity and monetary equity, further connecting them to the fabric of your work. Ask For Online Participation.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

There are many options for peer-to-peer fundraising you can use: Contests Challenges Crowdfunding DIY fundraising A-thons (walk, bowl, etc.) Unless you rely on an individual that’s connected to your brand, or works for your nonprofit as an influencer, Meta verified is something that will have little impact on your nonprofit right now.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

The top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs in the United States raised an astonishing $1.05 billion in 2022. Is your nonprofit prepared to make the most of this opportunity? If not, it’s time to start exploring peer-to-peer fundraising platforms. Learn more about pricing and fees.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). April 7 is National Handmade Day, but even if that date doesn’t work for your calendar, wine and paint go together like PB and J. Paint Night or Craft-acular.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

Last week, I had the good fortune to speak with some great organizations doing historic preservation work in the Western United States. By and large, these are small organizations that frequently rely on volunteers and working boards to fill all roles the organization needs to staff. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a day of global generosity and charitable giving that takes place on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Giving Tuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. These can work as in-person, virtual , or even hybrid events. When is Giving Tuesday 2021?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

In the United States, we generated over 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Works with local businesses, helping businesses donate old materials to local middle schools. About the Success Stories Contest. " — Annie Leonard.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2014

The app worked through crowdfunding. The contest sought solutions to support and empower trafficking survivors. Marnie Webb, CEO of Caravan, which is building an array of apps designed to curb social problems, says lean-start-up principles help Caravan work faster and meet real needs. Sharing Their Lean Methodology.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office. As a part of the "Tech 4 Faith Story of the Month Contest" we invited Faith-Based Organizations to tell us about the great work they are doing. Finding a Way to Make It Work.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

.” In fact, the two channels work best when they work together — email and social CAN play as a team. Nearly ubiquitous in the United States. How can we take advantage of the strengths of each medium to get more out of both? . Email Strengths: . Little peer-to-peer sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Here's a definition: Circuit riders travel throughout regions of the United States and parts of Europe providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. I just want everyone to know that I plan to continue to share what I am learning and after this contest ends on January 31st - minus the ask for the money.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

If we really want to achieve that vision, we’ve got to get to work in all the places where people live, work, and play. We’ve experimented with beyond-the-building engagement through projects like the Pop Up Museum , Evergreen Cemetery restoration work, and partner-led festivals. Space is contested, privatized, and segregated.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). He aims to have an “opinion-free” practice. Beth Kanter. BethKanter.org. Tyler Riewer.

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See3

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Because CGD is not an advocacy organization, the asks on the site mostly come from other organizations working for the same goals, such as Oxfam, Mercy Corp and One. Like you, I believe that the United States can be a powerful force for good in the world. Polls consistently show that Americans want the U.S.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Today they just announced that the W.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Keep doing what works but kn ow and plan like it isn’t going to work forever. Carie Lewis from the Humane Society of the United States has used this approach with impressive results over the last three years. She references the work of Jennifer Aaker at Stanford University and her research that supports this notion.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? We want to hear how TechSoup’s educational resources and donated technology products help keep organizations like yours doing the good work they are doing safely. b) Void States. Interested in winning a free Microsoft Surface Pro 2 or 3 ? Eligibility.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year. MTM SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED UNDER SMCRA MTM is a mining method that the United States government is largely responsible for creating. I know because I helped work on several projects funded by those agencies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? We will share your organization's work to a potential audience of more than 300,000 people! Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? b) Void States. Are you … A U.S. If you answered YES! Submit your story anyway!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? We will share your organization's work to a potential audience of more than 300,000 people! Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? b) Void States. Are you … A U.S. If you answered YES! Submit your story anyway!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits in the United States of America who have used TechSoup's donated products or educational resources in the past. (a) b) Void States. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning stories on the Challenge website (or to otherwise use the stories and/or creative works).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site. Hold contests. We try to follow our own advice in our work. Facebook isn't just all hype. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. And its users are groupies not casual fans. So the potential audience is huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. In the end, it looks like all those all unrelenting emails worked ! Why did they release $7 million match all at once?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

the Humane Society of United States reached 1 million fans on its Facebook Page. As NTEN points out , the campaign include integrated tactics: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they’re asking their fans to share their pets’ stories and photos. Earlier this month.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

TechSoup and Adobe have teamed up to bring you a Facebook contest where you can win $1,000 by submitting any and all content your organization has created using Adobe. Here's What You Need to Know About the Contest. The Celebrate Adobe Creative Cloud Contest (the "Contest"). Contest Schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

As part of this deep dive, I’ve been getting lots of inspiration from the start up and innovation movements here in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere), especially the work of Peter Sims – Little Bets. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

said than done, and it's something we have been working on at TechSoup, where we send a catalog of all of our donated and discounted product. When I first posted on this topic in 2010 there was not a single, universal "Do Not Mail Registry" for opting out of receiving junk mail in the United States or internationally.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Although nonprofits in the United States have been slower to embrace mobile phones for health purposes than the rest of the world, mobiles are catching on as a way to reach diverse populations across the U.S. But they really don't understand how to apply that to their work." Corinne Ramey, MobileActive.org.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

There were more faux forwards in my inbox this year and except for a few, most don’t work. The Humane Society of the United States gets the award for Best-Email-That-Looked-Like-The-CEO-Sent-It-From-An-iPhone message. Sadly, there were a lot more mobile unfriendly emails than those that work well on a mobile device.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nonprofit funding is vital in addressing discrimination against historically marginalized groups (the central principle of affirmative action), even as funders fail to prioritize this work in a way that is proportional to other giving. Reality 2: Commitments for this work were likely more performative than constructive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day. In 2009, the organization launched the United State Spay Day Photo Contest in 2009 as one part of their overall effort that included broadcast media and other social media outreach efforts as well as offline event.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Enewsletters Still Work Enewsletters are still a valuable form of communications for most organizations. Facebook As the fifth-most trafficked site in the United States, Facebook is a great social network for nonprofits to build a community and brand their campaigns. Its really helped our communication to run smoothly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code. ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests.

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