Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Allegations of fake profiles being created to drum up votes. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Not only do your supporters likely already know how to navigate the platform, but they already have profiles. Whether a conference, a gala, or a trivia contest, you can live stream the event directly on Facebook. Additionally, we can’t forget the digital marketing benefits. You can live stream and accept donations live.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. Another positive with birthday fundraisers is you can benefit from them even if your organization chooses not to sign up for Facebook’s fundraising tools and payment program. Host polls and contests to engage your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation. Which one worked best? Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. 15) Brand design contests.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Genuinely connecting with an influencer, by directing questions or responses to them in addition to retweeting their content, can help raise your organizations profile on Twitter. While it is obvious that organizations should follow influencers, what about examining who is following you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2021

Galas, contests and performances went virtual. What we’ve learned along the way is that adding virtual elements into your fundraising and in-person events has incredible benefits. Use an online donation form on your website, promote a text-to-donate keyword at your event and across your social media profiles.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Offer profile/success stories for employee communications. When just at the office, employees are inundated with important company news, updates from leadership, product, software system, changing employee benefits, the pending acquisition. Participate in onboarding and orientation programs. Everyone is on a 24-hour information cycle.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. What sort of benefits have you seen as a result of the competition? Knowing what you do now, what tips do you have for any nonprofit interested in holding a similar contest? Increased traffic?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. What sort of benefits have you seen as a result of the competition? Knowing what you do now, what tips do you have for any nonprofit interested in holding a similar contest? Increased traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

Another benefit of peer-to-peer fundraising is that your participants do the fundraising for you and help bring awareness to your mission through their personal networks. These personal appeals for donations are more likely to inspire people who are finding your page for the first time to give to your organization.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Holding events is a great way for nonprofits to raise money, engage constituents, and raise their profile. With almost 40% of smaller nonprofits hosting at least two to five events every year, everyone involved with your organization, from your volunteers and staff to your donors and event attendees, will stand to benefit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The realization that another organization was using a tool, seeing another group’s profile on any given platform, or hearing a colleague at another organization mention something we hadn’t heard before were all causes enough to compel us to register, download, or log in. We even forgot about our own website at times. That was a silly time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info. Social Security Administration. income, age, etc.). Vote for this Idea].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The ability to create contests and pass out kudos enables the non profit to help the members to change their shopping and benefit the charity. February 7, 2009 | victorseo Thanks for your comments Victor. I think the following is an interesting perspective. A new mom in California can shop with Grandma in Kansas and Sis in Florida.

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