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What Are Gaming Fundraisers and How Can They Raise Donations for Your Nonprofit?

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The rise of the livestream, combined with the growing popularity and widespread appeal of video games, has created an attractive new opportunity for charities — gaming fundraisers. These events are an exciting new kind of fundraiser in which gamers raise money for charity by livestreaming themselves playing video games.

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4 Key Features of the New GoFundMe Charity™

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Launched in 2010, GoFundMe is the world’s largest free social fundraising platform, with more than $5 billion raised by tens of millions of donors. Today, GoFundMe has expanded their platform to nonprofits in the United States and Canada with the launch of GoFundMe Charity. What are the fees to use GoFundMe Charity ?

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5 Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Social Good

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By Kaley Aposporos , Content Writer at GoFundMe Charity. 1) Use an app that gives back to charity. That said, the three apps listed below are all free and help benefit different charities. From there, the app will automatically begin rounding up their purchases to donate the remainder of each dollar to charity.

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12 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Mobile Technology

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of all revenue raised in 2016. In 2010, only 6% of donors said that an e-appeal motivated a gift. 21% of peer-to-peer fundraising dollars raised are the result of a direct click-through on social media. Only 3% of charities rate their board and executive leadership as being digitally savvy. In 2015, that jumped to 20%.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

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Adidas recently sold out their inaugural Into the Metaverse NFT line and as far as we know none of the $23 million raised went to support a nonprofit. That said, there are NFTs that are being sold to raise money for charity with many, many more to come. Augmented Reality (AR).

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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

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With each card sent, donors make a donation to a charity of their choice ($1 or more) instead of wasting money and resources on paper cards and stamps. Diners are able to RSVP for events online and a portion of their checks are donated to charity. Since their launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has raised over $146,000,000 for charity.

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Three Ingredients for Successful Year-End Fundraising

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This is the time of year that your organization should be raising up to 40% of its donations online. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator. Online fundraising grew 34% and raised over $20 billion dollars in 2010 – Blackbaud.