Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Improve internal information systems. Whiteboard of love – written praise for staff accomplishments, Reserved parking space awarded to an employee each month who had done a great job. Ritual of staff praise at meetings or monthly award, not just a raise. Do fun icebreakers at meetings and other team building activities.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Super fun branding: they wove the theme of brunch throughout all of their materials and graphics to help it stand out and to give participants a cohesive feel. Recognition: to help keep costs down, the foundation decided not to send people awards, but that doesn’t mean they ignored their fundraisers. Who wouldn’t want to watch?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. International Day of Yoga (June 21). Charge for tickets, food and add competition awards (like wine) for people who can match all the bottles. International Day of Friendship (July 30). Stretch for a Cause. Card for a Cause.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

My personal favorite is the last: We believe that laughter, irreverance, fun, and a deep joy about what is and what is possible are essential to our work. The Heart and Soul Grant Award Program is a new international program that will give out $25,000 in awards, as well as a custom written song.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Intrinsic motivations are internal and make people feel good about themselves or accomplished. People want to be a part of something, and people want to have fun. Still, there is no reason why they cannot also be applied to virtual events. Choose Incentives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2006

Big thanks to my dad for sending me a New York Times article about social enterprise that mentions Fast Company's 2006 Social Capitalist Awards. ACCION International BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) Citizen Schools City Year College Summit Inc. If you click on the Fast Company article, they have links to all the orgs.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. That said, mix it up!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Like all people, they may love the arts, animals, and the environment; enjoy beautiful parks and fun outdoor activities; and support education and helping those in need. You get to be part of a unique, award-winning, internationally recognized event. It's a lot of fun!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

I personally am out of poké balls and am unable to join in on the fun at current moment… perhaps I’ll take a lunch time walk down to the nearest poké stop. You may be surprised at the inspiration you draw from it and most importantly, have fun. It’s all sort of been a lot of excitement. Bibliography. 'Pokémon

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

(Then tell us what your organization's equivalent to Wonder Woman's invisible plane is. ;) NPower is announcing their Technology Innovation Awards (TIA) , presented by Accenture. I want to give a big shout-out to all the folks who made the 2nd Annual International Fundraising Conference (IFC) Online a success this week!

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

They’re no stranger to a fun and engaging learning environment. Fun Plays a Role: From external staff celebrations or going out to happy hour together and periodic annual retreats, PENCIL makes sure to incorporate fun into professional development-type assessments and working style. And PENCIL, Inc.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. Pin athletic awards and trophies before putting them in your display case. Navy Imagery 22.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Whether the show participants feel like it or not, they are required to perform daily tasks—like keeping the fire going and boiling water—that aren’t glamorous or fun but keep them alive. Internal controls are not just for finance people anymore. Three Key Changes in Grant Administration. How will this happen?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now, the fun and challenging part begins, as our judges for Storymakers 2014 get to choose the finalists. Awards will be announced at our gala on October 22, 2014 at SOMArts in San Francisco (you can RSVP and get your invitation here ). Storymakers 2014 surpassed our expectations in terms of the quality and number of submissions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

This level of relationship building does not happen by sitting in an office filling out reports, or by dutifully answering the deluge of internal email we all receive. There are many other fun incentives we could offer. Vacation days, awards, and lunches are other inexpensive ways to reward performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. That said, mix it up!

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

World Wildlife Fund offers a fun quiz that helps determine your "inner animal," After the quiz, you learn more about the animal that best matches you – and some of them are truly bizarre, with over 100 species available – and post about it on Facebook and Twitter. How are nonprofits using gaming right now?

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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. Five Simple (and Fun) Ways to Promote Nonprofits on FourSquare by Heather Mansfield. If you are one of those people — watch this video. You can use Foursquare to change people’s behavior and inspire positive change.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2012

For those of you who are wondering what this fun acronym is all about, South by Southwest is a 9 day festival that includes 3 portions: music, film, and our favorite, interactive (March 9th-13th). Guest post by: Sarah Daniels, aka Marketing Intern. It’s that time of the year again folks!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

So today, thanks to the Webby Awards, we get to stop and say well done and congratulations to three members of the Convio community who are nominees for the 13th Annual Webby Awards : In the activism category both Rock the Vote and Protect and Acre (Conservation International) have been nominated.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For example, Woven Health typically has their annual award ceremony in November, kicking off the giving season. Woven Health Clinic is on their third year of hosting an awards ceremony fundraiser, but this year they did things a bit differently – they went virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way. We also gave awards, certificates, and chocolates as well as surprise and humor to keep everyone involved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. The awards will be given out in June at a national summit that will recognize the leaders and 60 semi-finalists. SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

A new Kindle Fire will be awarded to one lucky individual who visits our Science Fair Booth and redeems their winning ticket at our afterparty! Data Systems International. Stop by and pick up one of our fun Pizza Cutters! CDS Global. CiviCRM is giving away T-shirts, and copies of the CiviCRM User and Administrator Guide.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

According to Nonprofitist.org's post, How Many International Nonprofits Can You Count? I hope that one of the results of this award will be a guide and training to help other nonprofits to pool their collective knowledge, skills and resources in successful collaborations. nonprofit collaboration award philanthropy there are 1.4

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The conference officially kicks off with breakfast and a keynote presentation from four-time Emmy award-nominated actress and humanitarian Connie Britton. Food and drink will be served– with plenty of dancing, music and fun. Her message with resonate with everyone in the social good sphere- both professionally and personally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2007

I spent the weekend in New Mexico celebrating two important days with my parents: Mother's Day and my dad's receiving the Allen Stamm Humanitarian of the Year award from the United Way of Santa Fe County. Aageson's is one of six awards the United Way will present on May 10 at La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Pratima: Designing the collateral for our MNM’s International Honors in November was a pretty intensive project because it covered everything from the invite collateral, appeals material, web-promo-content, slides, program book, banners. Webby Awards. It’s a very different line of thinking, and in this case, much more rewarding.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2011

having any fun with technology. " But part of our message was, "have a little fun with. Award" from the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) and. In this story, we are in year two of getting to. know the nonprofit sector and its technology needs and are realizing two things. expensive then). this stuff."

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

Once students complete the AH certification, which also includes a full-time, 600-hour semester as an intern, they have the tools and confidence necessary to begin working for a nonprofit organization and immediately make a significant contribution. Additionally, many of the graduates were selected for various awards and scholarships.

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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. Don’t be afraid to look beyond your community for inspiration, too!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 3, 2007

--Black Elk, Oglala Sioux Last month, the ePhilanthropy Foundation named Peace x Peace the 2007 Best Community Building/Volunteerism and/or Activism Campaign as part of its 2007 International ePhilanthropy Awards. You may have seen Peace x Peace in O, The Oprah Magazine several years back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2007

The nonprofit, TransFair USA , is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International , the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, and a three-time winner of Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist awards. Last week they started a blog, Fair Trade Certified.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In December 2007, the Fund awarded grants to 15 organizations that, "represent pioneering efforts to integrate personal and social transformation throughout their organizations and movements." Kellogg Foundation, and Seeds of Justice Foundation) had formed the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

We are really -- as the Slow Food International founder likes to call it -- essentially co-producers. It's an Academy Award nominated documentary. As you know, I have a blog called Have Fun, Do Good. I'm always interested in asking the folks who I interview, "How are you having fun and doing good?" I highly recommend it.

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