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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

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Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Team up with local news.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You may save some of these options for major donors, or sustainers, those who have given at least three years in a row, or donors who helped with a high stakes campaign like establishing a matching gift, putting the organization in their will, helping with a capital campaign or doing something else spectacular. These exist already!

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Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

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While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. The French government extended the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876, in recognition of our first 100 years as a nation. Badges on Facebook are another.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. You'll also need some video editing software.

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End-of-Year Giving: 21 Best Practices for a Great Campaign

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Put a matching gifts drive into action. Here are a couple ways to do it: Qgiv’s peer-to-peer fundraising platform : With our platform you can create customized fundraising pages and use quests and badges to gamify your supporters’ peer-to-peer experience. Put a matching gifts drive into action. Host a hybrid event.

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How to Get Donations: Try These 20+ Tips!

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Find more major gifts. Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. Because giving is often a sacrifice for your donors, they want to make sure you got their gift. Consider other media outreach. Up your storytelling game.

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10 Types of Fundraising Event Software for Virtual Events

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Offer participant engagement tools once they’ve registered, like gamification and badges. Text-to-give is beneficial because it’s extremely simple for donors to complete a gift with a couple of texts. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Texting During Events.

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