NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. Increase Average Online Gift Amount – Use Targeted Content to include different ask amounts ($25, $100, $1000, etc) and even links to different Donation Forms with higher giving levels, each based on the constituents giving history.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more. Direct questioning.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2013

I’m a huge history fan. Probably because I love a good story and history is just that – HIS Story or HER Story – one great long story of independence, sacrifice and success. Let’s tell stories about what it feels like to be a survivor or to have lost a loved one or to have once been homeless and now have a home.

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Story Fundraising Chapter History 43

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.” Invest in the right software.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If you live in an area with some morbid history or well-known ghost stories, you can add a few stops on your scavenger hunt related to those creepy tidbits for your more daring donors. Arguably the most popular Halloween tradition, pumpkin carving is a must-do activity every year in October. Haunted House fundraiser.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Contest 98

Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

In the past year, virtual fundraising activities have skyrocketed due to social distancing guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual fundraising is no longer an optional activity for nonprofits— it’s a necessity! Send Donors A Fun At-home Activity. You’ve probably redirected your focus to virtual methods, too.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. How do we share our bifurcated story as both a place to engage with art and history AND a place that builds community? To work for my community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

A network of grandchildren was activated. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000. How did it happen? It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

This activity can be used at an organizational offsite gathering for a cross-functional team of marketers, fundraisers, and program staff to generate a common purpose around a culture of philanthropy and explicit cultural norms. This activity helps you articulate why a culture of philanthropy is important, your values, and the way you work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Instead of fundraising separately, activating communities separately, connecting with legislators separately, the organizations recognized a unique opportunity they had to come together. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million? A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here are a few ways to learn more about our shared history, Dr. King’s legacy and ways to give back while carrying his legacy forward. If it’s been a while since American history class, listen to the whole speech today. Many cities have a local MLK march or volunteer activation. Listen to Dr. King’s Most Famous Speech.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I’m proud of our partnerships with the Homeless Service Center, Second Harvest Food Bank, UCSC, the Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations that are at the heart of the Santa Cruz identity.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. The big-gift story is surprisingly easy to sell, especially if you can say it’s “the biggest gift in our organization’s history.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

Here are a few ways to learn more about our shared history, Dr. King’s legacy, and ways to give back while carrying his legacy forward. If it’s been a while since American history class, listen to the whole speech today. Show up Many cities have a local MLK march or volunteer activation. You can support their work here.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After all, even if they no longer volunteer with your organization, there was a time when they were actively engaging with your work. Either way, prioritize the groups who are the most active and be sure to encourage them to get involved in your volunteer program at the end of your speech. Reaching out to local churches.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Just from my understanding of history and my understanding of politics, the best way of actually being able to improve the living conditions of low income, oppressed people is for those people to come together and take their destinies into their own hands. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work? I was hooked from that moment on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I guess our checklist would be a lot like the barriers to second wave adoption blogged about elsewhere : Understand the activities and goals of the organization. apps can help perform activities and meet organizational goals. Make Poverty History. Let's imagine a random scenario where we're trying to sell web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

Sunday, I decided not to add them to the total – I did not count churches, but did count faith-based organizations, like the Mobile Loaves and Fishes truck feeding the homeless near a downtown park. I counted 8 different museums represented in a 45 minute viewing of one show on The History Channel.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

This is particularly important for YMYL (your money, your life) niches, which cover many areas of nonprofits such as homelessness, health, and financial assistance. Ranking higher on Google for search terms such as ‘suicide fundraising’ will allow people who are actively looking to fundraise for a charity to see you first.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 6, 2022

History of Universal Human Rights Month. You can check out their website to view all of their campaigns, read stories, and learn about ways you can personally promote and engage with human rights activism. A month dedicated to celebrating and promoting equality, Universal Human Rights Month is all about bringing people together.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

Sometimes it's a homeless person. The activity is clear and well-scaffolded. A personal history. About once each week, a visitor walks in and blows everyone away. Sometimes a lover's duet. This week, it was a little guy , attended by a stuffed toy on the piano bench. It's rare that someone sits down to bang out noise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging' It can lead to parallel programming: bike night for hipsters, bee night for hippies, family night for kiddies. And rarely the twain shall meet.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Lay out a plan that identifies all the Asks, donor communications, warm touches, and marketing activities you plan to do between now and the end of the year. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. You know, if you’re starting a business or you want a credit card or something like that, they’re going to look at your credit history. . consider impact reporting kind of like your credit score.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But, lest we repeat history if we think the digital paradigm will solve things! For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. Digital Paradigm.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

You might collect contact information and record donation histories. Providing that for your donors can illustrate how your nonprofit has taken an active role in identifying a problem and working to solve it. The point is you likely have a wealth of supporter information at your fingertips. Include an envelope for giving.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. Like Bloomerang, this system should: Store contact information: Keep track of donor names, contact details, and giving history.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They share the history, they share the finances, all of that. . If you are, you know, like I said, if you’re a homeless shelter or anything with those sensitive confidentiality thing, tell the story from a different perspective. Now, somebody is sitting in a corner going, “That’s all they doing?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

What activities make up these services? . Where is the geographic area being served, and where are the activities happening? . You might use criteria like the kind of weather you want, types of activities you want to do, how long you have available, your budget, things of that nature. Who are the staff doing the serving?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? I decided to find out how to bridge the worlds of performance, cultural organizing and radical activism.

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