Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Excitement is infectious—and a loud, enthusiastic crowd in the background of a streamed event will inherently make it more fun and engaging. Think back to the days of American Idol, when fans could call in to vote on their favorite contestants, and how it made us feel like an integral part of the show. Create incentives.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Consider creating a page on your website or a post on your blog that covers the basics of Facebook fundraising. So, share information about your mission statement, values, tips to raise funds successfully, and photos of the work your organization does. You can live stream and accept donations live.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Let attendees make their mark, and they’ll keep watching the stream for their moment to shine. Ask guests to record themselves while watching an exciting part of the stream and play them later. Ask donors to use a hashtag or submit their photos directly, and then hold a vote where the winner is announced on the stream.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

And unless you’re independently wealthy with an endless revenue stream, you can’t self-fund forever (nor should you – more on that in a minute). Hey, just stick around and keep reading this blog and you’ll learn A LOT!) You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet. You might even host a quick superhero trivia contest to test your attendees on their superhero knowledge. The team that wins the trivia contest can win a special prize! You can stream an entire series (Lord of the Rings marathon?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations? Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo in my flickr stream here. so I'll be blogging about it over the next few weeks. so I'll be blogging about it over the next few weeks. Dr. Hendrie passed around this photo of the 600 kids who now will be able to attend school because they have school uniforms. The Sharing Foundation accomplishes so much!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. Y ou can see her speak (via streaming video) this Saturday, November 6th at TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch in Los Angeles. Three years ago, I decided to collect and tally all the plastic waste I generated each week and post it on my blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship. Photo and Bio. News release mentioning the benefactors.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. If you want to learn a bit more about hosting a silent auction, check out our blog post on the eight steps to running a stellar event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

My content on Slideshare can easily be published here on my blog or by anyone else anyplace else! I also share my Slideshare content in my other social streams. National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare for its presentations, but also to promote the winners of their photo contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. Seems like video is obsession this year - so the other session is going to be a geekout, hands-on session on video blogging for nonprofits. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. The question is "When is video a good.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Affordable Ideas for Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraiser In this blog post, we’ve curated a list of 27 affordable fundraising ideas specifically tailored for nonprofits. You can read more about corporate gift matching in the blog post below: Fundraising Corporate Matching Gifts: An Untapped Revenue Stream 8 min read Read Now 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. I've also been using my own blog data as a sandbox for running and interpreting reports. We had quick email back and forth and he gave me permission to blog or rather their marketing director David Owen did and called Larry a genuis. (I What does the IT department do? -

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Though a recurring giving campaign may not bring in major gifts upfront, it will give you a system for pulling in a steady income stream for the months following Giving Tuesday and beyond. Who shares your contests? The post 15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021 appeared first on Qgiv Blog. Request Demo.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Contest. Live-streaming to keep in touch with supporters. Posting blog articles with updates about the campaign. . If you’re considering live-streaming content to your supporters, check out this re:Charity article to learn more about the software necessary to do so. . Fundraising Letters. Text-to-Give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or a baking contest? If your town is famous for its strawberries, for example, you could consider having a contest where cooks’ recipes must feature that ingredient. Contestants in the cook-off can make a donation as an “entry fee,” and people who want to sample the entries can buy tasters’ tickets. Family photo day.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Pivot this to virtual by having each participant upload a photo or live stream themselves walking their “at-home” runway. For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. They can then vote for their favorite by donating.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

With apps like Teleparty or simple screen share features in services like Zoom, you can stream a movie that everyone can watch together, all from the comfort of their own homes. Haunted porch contest. When Halloween rolls around , have some safe, socially-distanced fun with a haunted porch contest. Virtual movie night.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

However, if you decide to host a completely virtual dance-a-thon , you might just need appropriate live streaming software. Set up a photo booth so your dancers can take home pictures from your event and to collect memories you can post on your social media platforms during your dance-a-thon and for a post-event recap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work. The organization delivering services to people at risk and affected by trafficking, and integrates revenue streams into their service model. In the following test we had two photos.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

A website that is dated and contains old news and blog posts signals to supporters that your organization doesn’t have the time to keep up with your supporters online— or even worse, that your nonprofit is no longer running. One of our favorite ways to create and share content regularly is blogging. Update your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". This post includes all the links and additional ROI resources that will be mentioned or discussed during the session. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

The final event of the day was a video blogging workshop for local nonprofits given by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson. As part of the workshop, there was a contest to giveaway a video camera. Now, off to find the photos and video streams and utterz. All in all, a great day for local nonprofits and nonprofit techies alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Photo by Becky J McCray At SXSW, I participated in the " Social Media for Social Good BBQ " co-hosted by Jeff Pulver and Porter Novelli. Here's a few examples of the latter that were mentioned on the Twitter stream. . A recent example is the Humane Society's Spa Day Photo Contest which raised over $600,000.

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