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Network for Good Launches Charity Badges!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog Network for Good today launches their charity badges with some great support from Yahoo! In the local village school, the foundation runs an English Language program that is teaching over 500 children to speak English. Now about the badge. Great publicity! One thing I forgot to add.

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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser

Qgiv

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. With badges, you can celebrate your participants when they hit their fundraising goals. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser?

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. A digital member badge that can be shared on social media. You can create a new benefit for donors simply by choosing to use language about their donation that deepens their commitment. If you are copying it to the letter, ask permission.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it. It's recently been updated.

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How to Host a Dance-a-Thon Fundraiser

Qgiv

For another entertainment option, try partnering with local dance studios or connecting with local dance teachers to see if they’d be willing to lend their time to teach your fundraisers some simple choreography or basic dance lessons. You could also consider adding a live band to the entertainment lineup to mix things up every now and then.

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[VIDEO] Strategies for Retaining Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers and Donors

Bloomerang

And bringing them back year after year has some distinct advantages, one of which is that all of that onboarding and that teaching and the encouragement that you do when you first recruit a participant is a great deal of work for you, but returning participants will need less onboarding and less support. Maybe you give them raffle tickets.

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