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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

You start discussing your goals with donors, but they don’t understand why you’re asking for such large gifts. They’ll shape the entire campaign, from the specific fundraising goal you seek to raise, to the case for support you develop and discuss with donors. The plan feels pieced together, and your early efforts lose steam fast.

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Virtual Holiday Fundraiser Ideas

AccelEvents

You can start the challenge early in December and then end the event with a live stream that celebrates all involved, highlighting those who exceeded certain contribution points. . When hosting a physical challenge, be sure to hit a benchmark that you want participants to hit. Consider voting on something that is silly.

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Virtual Holiday Fundraiser Ideas

AccelEvents

You can start the challenge early in December and then end the event with a live stream that celebrates all involved, highlighting those who exceeded certain contribution points. . When hosting a physical challenge, be sure to hit a benchmark that you want participants to hit. Consider voting on something that is silly.

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Giving Tuesday: Steps to Create a Stellar Campaign

Connection Cafe

Created by 92nd Street Y , a cultural center in New York City focused on bringing people together around the values of giving back, #GivingTuesday is now a global movement that connects individuals, communities, and organizations around the world to celebrate and encourage giving. Fundraising Goal. Set personal fundraising goals.

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5 Strategies to Implementing a Successful Employee Giving Campaign

Connection Cafe

Gone are the days of just sending out pledge forms in interoffice mail and expecting people to respond. Include progress toward the goal of 100% support. The main responsibility of the Champions is to track the pledge forms to employees and make sure they receive a form back from every staff member on their teams.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the “birthdays” section of their website, after discovering that many others with the same birthday as you––and 47,492 people in total at the time of writing––have asked for donations instead of presents for their birthday, charity: water tells you how cool celebrities like Depeche Mode and Tony Hawk pledged their birthdays to the nonprofit.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. On MoreBirthdays.com, people can support, give, and celebrate surviving cancer or loved ones by creating a birthday wish through e-cards, music video, or musician phone call.