Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had a very fun time presenting with my friend and colleague Debra Askanase at the 2 011 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Be transparent with everything: in goals, activities, membership, successes, challenges, issues within the community, and so on. Lastly, be active in sharing your toolbox.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2014

Even free apps like FourSquare reward checking in to locations with badges and titles like “Mayor”. By tying member points to various activities at your organization, you can encourage increased interaction and participation. Do those badges mean anything? It’s fun, interactive, and keeps me coming back. Think about it!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Unlike a fun run or a 5K fundraiser, you don’t need to map out a racecourse or organize volunteers to man your event. With badges, you can celebrate your participants when they hit their fundraising goals. A read-a-thon can take place anywhere, so long as your participants can curl up with a good book.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

You might even offer fun prizes to your top peer-to-peer participants like getting to dunk the youth pastor! Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition! For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show. Gamify Your Event.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

First, what gamification is not: It's not a pricey piece of software that will have your members using their phones to gobble up dots on a screen in a maze that resembles your office – although, you can certainly do fun things like that with the help of a game developer. You can place different weights on the activity you wish to encourage.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

We’ve created fun features to gamify the fundraising experience. This encourages active engagement because it facilitates a friendly, competitive environment. These features include leaderboards, fundraising thermometers, and fundraising badges. Social integrations to spread awareness. Text fundraising options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

One of Foursquare’s first badges was the “ gym rat “–awarded to users who check into a gym at least 10 times in 30 days. Some people throw parties just to attract 50+ people to unlock the swarm badge or visit the same place again and again to become its mayor. What do your check-ins, tips, to-dos, badges, etc. say about you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Pop-up messages as reminders, rewarding users for their engagement, badges, progress bars, and even weekly challenges drive a little competition to keep users on their toes. Now, before organizations jump onto the excitement wagon and just develop a mobile application, they must understand that gamification is not about making things “fun”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Says Gabriela, “I personally encourage my team to take time off, learn a new skill or have fun.”. Gabriela says her organization has organized activities that facilitate a sense of community in her workplace. They also try to have fun outside the office, going out for meals or bowling. Building offers a free gym for tenants.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Participants can earn points and badges for "checking in" at certain events or locations, taking quizzes, and keeping track of emergency contacts.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

We know that attending a virtual event isn’t always the most fun. If you will have a larger online audience, then your virtual event will need to be rigged with gamification features, awards and badges, giveaways, polls, and enjoyable videos. After all, you want to go to an event to see your friends and network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. You will not accrue “Badges&# if you do not have a photo, nor will you become a “Mayor&#. FourSquare has received quite a bit of buzz over the last few months. It is Different. Create a profile for yourself.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

We know that attending a virtual event isn’t always the most fun. If you will have a larger online audience, then your virtual event will need to be rigged with gamification features, awards and badges, giveaways, polls, and enjoyable videos. After all, you want to go to an event to see your friends and network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And, of course, you get badges for various activities. Sort of like embedded giving that Lucy Bernholz talks about, I think. The application is well designed and is fun. All in all, this a lot of fun - and takes some of the ideas of an app like FourSquare to leverage corporate donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

In the last year we've extended our reach as follows: Number of active groups: 48. Number of countries with active groups: 20. Open Badges Meetup. Want in on the fun? Check out our map of events to find your closest group. How big is the NetSquared Local community? Number of events held: 38. New Groups.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction. Make sure you actively encourage viewers to make donations. Encourage your supporters to plan fun activities, entertainment, and food for their parties. Host an auction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? A digital member badge that can be shared on social media. These exist already!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Gamifying fundraising turns your campaign into a fun experience for your fundraising teams and individual supporters. These fun features spur friendly competition between supporters as they vie for the top spot, creating a sense of fundraising urgency. Fundraising badges. Gamification. Cement crowdfunding in your mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

That’s kinda fun! But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. I was profiled on Linux.com. I “live the open source lifestyle.&#

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Bringing some fun into your charitable campaigns via gamification and rewards is a great way to raise awareness for your cause, create an engaging experience for your fundraisers, and turn them into lifelong advocates for your cause. These come in the form of tasks, points, badges and levels. More on this later!). Game mechanics.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

They use Foursquare to create partner badges. When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. As of June 2013, there were 70 million users, and 30 percent of those were active. Thank them, be fun and be inviting. Just take the American Red Cross as an example.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

In addition, advertising revenue is shared based on overall active users and advertising performance. The mini games are not specifically designed to educate about the cause or charity - but are pure Facebook fun. For every new user install on a Social Change application, Dank Apps Inc will donate 2 cents to the charity.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

Making It Fun. Though your organization’s mission may be serious, there are many ways to add fun to your P2P campaign. And, fun is important for keeping your fundraisers engaged and motivated. Create campaign-specific fundraising “thermometers” and social media badges that fundraisers can use to show off their progress.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Bloggers Unite activism refugees Monday, November 10th, in an initiative similar to Blog Action Day , thousands of bloggers will post about refugee issues to raise awareness as part of Bloggers Unite. Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

Go to the KCET's landing page for the show and you'll see them promoting the Twitter account,(but not with a Twitter badge streaming the actual tweets.) She notes, "It is been going viral on Facebook without much promotion because it's fun. "We don't have all the benchmarks yet, in part, because social media is so new."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. Verified Badges. If approved, a blue verification badge will be added next to your nonprofit’s name on Instagram. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! A Few NpTech Conversations.

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2022

Among these, virtual events, virtual walks, 5Ks, and fun run fundraisers have become a great option for organizations looking to unite their communities. When the walk, 5K, or other run begins, your fundraisers will participate in the fun from their own neighborhoods rather than gathering together in person.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

What makes this campaign successful: They combined a fun activity (bowling!) The “Our Newest Participants” and “Recent Activity” sections are a fun, engaging way to make everyone feel the organization’s appreciation. Fundraising badges, thermometers , and leaderboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

I already anticipated this would happen based on my experience with my 5th campaign , so I had a Network For Good badge set up and waiting to go if people asked. Keep It Happy, Keep It Fun, Keep A Deadline, Keep It Urgent: I try as much as possible to have fun with these campaigns. They did and I was ready. .

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2022

While network fundraising is similar to peer-to-peer fundraising in that you’re recruiting people to fundraise on your behalf, typically a network fundraiser won’t have a large-scale event like a 5K, fun run, or any type of “A-Thon” fundraiser.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on the philanthropic and social advocacy action, here are some of my recommendations on sessions, events and activities that have gold stars next to them on my personal event agenda. The Beacon: Lounge with a Conscience!

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn. Like the Xbox Live achievement system, when you accomplish certain goals like your first checkin you get the “Newbie” badge.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

No matter what you’re fundraising for, hosting a dance-a-thon can help you raise lots of money while also giving your supporters the opportunity to get moving and have fun. It’s an engaging format, and for those who don’t enjoy running 5Ks, a dance-a-thon is a great alternative to get your fundraisers moving in a fun way.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

We had 2,120 attendees - that''s a lot of name badges, tote bags, and "welcome to the NTC"s. We''ve heard great feedback about the ability to scan, print your badge, and head off to sessions or food or networking. It also was down for the computers at registration (though not the badge printers!).

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