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How to Survive Today and Thrive Tomorrow

NonProfit Hub

and downloadable digital music (through platforms like Amazon or iTunes). Streaming video replaced video rental services and downloadable music replaced the CD market. Our culture is full of clichés to help us feel better about taking risks…. Suddenly, something available to only elites was accessible to all of us.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Musician’s clothing Costumes Musical instruments Include a certificate of authenticity with the item to reassure donors of its credibility. Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

Qgiv

Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online. Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year. Matching gifts drive. Virtual concert.

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Martha Beck Interview: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Have Fun - Do Good

That’s the first step to entering the zone of creative and rewarding “magic” in all traditional wisdom cultures. But Wordlessness is ALWAYS the first step to using the other three well, and it’s the one our culture has almost entirely lost. Just the idea that we have to meditate to drop into Wordlessness shows our cultural bias.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they recently set up an Amazon wish list for their Food Pantry and posted to their FB page. Within minutes, a fan commented that they had just placed an order for them. DC Jazz Festival : With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in Washington, D.C.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. The payment process went through Amazon, which created an extra step. Dutch native Marc van Bree is a public relations practitioner with more than 5 years of experience communicating—on and offline—in the nonprofit and cultural environment.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.