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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is a digital reality – a cyberspace made up of multiple virtual worlds – that combines components of social media, gaming, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), cryptocurrencies, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). As of now, nonprofits, activism, and philanthropy are virtually non-existent in the metaverse (pun intended).

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How to Plan a Virtual Holiday Fundraiser

AccelEvents

For corporate holiday events, you might have considered hosting a virtual holiday party such as a Santa exchange. You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. Things to Consider Before Planning Your Virtual Holiday Fundraiser.

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How to Plan a Virtual Holiday Fundraiser

AccelEvents

For corporate holiday events, you might have considered hosting a virtual holiday party such as a Santa exchange. You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. Things to Consider Before Planning Your Virtual Holiday Fundraiser.

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Nonprofits in The Metaverse: Pros + Cons

Media Cause

Advances in technology, such as cryptocurrency, NFTs, and virtual reality experiences, have elicited a multitude of reactions from the community at large, ranging from enthusiasm to skepticism to complete disdain. . NFT fundraising has also proven to be an incredibly effective and innovative way to raise money. Environmental impact.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The intent of the Red Cross venue is to give visitors a taste of the atmoshpere in disaster areas, how hard it can be to reach a relieve post and thus try to raise commitment to the organisations work. Both organisations are looking for new ways of fundraising and are looking into the possibilities in Virtual Worlds.

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Gamification: A Primer for Nonprofits

NTEN

The basic game-mechanics are points, levels, challenges, virtual goods, and leaderboards. Points and credits are also the intermediate step that enables challenges, leaderboards, and the obtaining of virtual goods. Every game-mechanic is tightly tied to and fulfills a different game-dynamic, but also influences others in a minor way.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. We think of social networking as a great way to get our message across, to raise funds, to communicate with our constituents. Except the door you opened was to your social network space.