Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pet Fundraisers Host events like dog walks, pet parades, dog washes, or pet costume contests and charge admission/entry fees. Photo Contest Organize a low-cost photo contest, charging entry fees and showcasing winning photos through an exhibition or calendar sale (either of which could end up being another way to raise funds).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The Gifted Learning Project: Whenever you plan a fundraising event, double check the calendar and dates in all your external communications. Social Media.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. A calendar There are many different kinds of calendars. You can get creative and design a beautiful calendar that volunteers can place on their desks or walls. Blankets Get creative and design your own blankets!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2021

I’m going to also recommend you count gifts by a donor within a fiscal or calendar year towards their total giving that year. This also sets up a bit of an uncomfortable popularity contest if some memorial funds receive oodles of donations while others receive fairly few.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

on your calendar and get cracking on the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. The contest's stellar panel of judges will dish out awards in the following categories: Best Overall Windows 8 App: $15,000. Best Overall Windows 8 Phone App: $15,000.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Eid al-Fitr is a three-day celebration to mark the end of Ramadan, observe the first day of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar, and remember Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina. Nowruz poetry contest Nowruz, also known as the Persian New Year, is another opportunity to celebrate with your community if you serve a Persian community.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Start planning your communications calendar now. Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event, contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Make sure to schedule periodic check-ins to make sure things stay on track.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format. I like to start with a plan broken down by buckets and then break that bucket-driven plan out into a color-coded calendar, so I know exactly what I need to do every month.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Start planning your communications calendar now. Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event , contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Make sure to schedule periodic check-ins to make sure things stay on track.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

Develop a One-Year Campaign Calendar. Instead focus on up to three signature campaigns that your supporters are excited about and develop a calendar that outlines: Monthly actions. You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Host a contest or giveaway on your social platforms to gain traction and increase engagement. Mark your calendars! Consider writing a short blog post about your #GivingTuesday campaign. Include photos, videos or links so people can learn more! Create your own #GivingTuesday hashtag (ie: #NonprofitHubGives). Social media example posts.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Maybe you can now easily share files and calendars with Office 365, or you use web conferencing software to collaborate across multiple locations. Read more about on our success stories contest and the awesome prizes offered in our blog. Whatever it is, we want to know about it! Click Here to Share Your Story! For More Details.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Review the upcoming month in the annual online marketing calendar. Who are the target audiences? Did You Know?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

From expanding your nonprofit’s reach and making your events more accessible to donors all over the world to boosting your revenue, a virtual auction is a modern and exciting fundraising event that every nonprofit should consider adding to their calendar. Be sure to link directly to your virtual auction’s website or registration form.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Costume contest. If it’s getting close to Halloween, take costumes to the next level with a peer-to-peer costume contest. Cookie-decorating contest. Show off your family’s creative baking skills with a cookie-decorating contest. Set a theme for your contest, whether you’re making cookies for Santa or a few spooky treats.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Then run a contest to determine the winner and a potential spot in an official calendar that’s sold to supporters (you’ll get at least 12 orders off the bat). Those dollars add up.

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See3

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!). For more information visit socialactions.com/changetheweb and check out the google calendar for events. Tags: social media contest new media campaign Nonprofits nptech. Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge. tags: change green ).

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

April 7 is National Handmade Day, but even if that date doesn’t work for your calendar, wine and paint go together like PB and J. Host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have “tip jars” for people to show their support for their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Paint Night or Craft-acular. BBQ for Good.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans. Thanks to everyone who came.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ambassador fundraising mobilizes your loyal supporters to conduct their own personal fundraising in the form of contests, challenges, campaigns, and more for your event. This should be based on the goals you have for your fundraiser (the exact amount of ticket sales/funds you want to reach) as well as your event calendar.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

As the calendar changed, so too did the outlook of many hopeful people, eager for the changes this year may bring. They made it fun by challenging participants to a car decorating contest! They brilliantly honored the climb’s most ardent supporters – firefighters – by creating the first Fight for Air Climb Firefighter calendar.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You might even offer a small branded item, like a t-shirt or calendar for the coming year, to motivate your supporters to give. As we mentioned before, it can be difficult for your supporters to find time for a big Giving Tuesday event if it isn’t on their holiday season calendar. Who shares your contests? Plan a trivia night.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. The videos would be submitted into a contest, and the winning submission would be posted on their MySpace page and featured in a film festival. There's no mention in this week's calendar of events at the museum.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Outline your campaign plan, and ask them to mark their calendars and spread the word in their networks. Are you offering rewards or hosting a sweeps or contest? Pull reports on your most active donors and supporters, and send them a special email a few days prior to #GivingTuesday. Call Your Partners.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Each event you host provides you with treasure troves of new content opportunities to build your social content calendar. Keep the momentum going and host a surprise giveaway across social media with your sponsor by encouraging your community to engage in photo contests. Get Started: Download Your Giving Tuesday Master Checklist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Looking to tap into this, we launched a photo contest where the prize would be featuring the winning images along side the photography that they have told us they like so much. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? Keep them engaged.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

To help your team similarly during this isolating time, we put together some engagement ideas and activities to get on your employees’ calendars. Pro-tip: when sending out a calendar invite, try to make the event for the same time each week to avoid conflicts and keep it top of mind. Virtual Happy Hours.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use countdowns and teasers to pique interest and ensure potential attendees mark their calendars. Share user-generated content, run contests, and create polls to build a sense of community and excitement around your fundraiser. Emotional connections drive ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. It is difficult because you have to shift gears from your Outlook calendar, answering emails, meetings, or getting tasks done. Let me explain.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2015

It also helps coordinate huge volunteer efforts through a shared calendar feature. If OvidiuRo's staff members were to sum up what they like in using Office 365, the first thing would be the integrated solutions, then the option to send large attachments, the integrated calendar, and the large storage space on OneDrive.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2015

It also helps coordinate huge volunteer efforts through a shared calendar feature. If OvidiuRo's staff members were to sum up what they like in using Office 365, the first thing would be the integrated solutions, then the option to send large attachments, the integrated calendar, and the large storage space on OneDrive.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

15 groups held live events which helped drive video submissions to the contest and allowed TechSoup to reach more NGOs with educational opportunities. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. It does have a Star Wars theme, but he created a fun caption contest. Here are some tips for games and giveaway contests on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Run contests to encourage people to share pictures or publish posts. If you approach the event with an editorial calendar in mind, homecoming can generate fodder for blog posts, special email blasts, collages, and extra social media posts for the coming months. Day-of gimmicks can prompt people to take the party online. Moving Forward.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Don’t let this term scare you.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This led to acquisition tactics like iPad giveaway contests, buying lists and hiding unsubscribe buttons and practices of “email blasts”. By developing a yearly campaign and communications calendar, you can be sure to lead your supporters on a meaningful journey.

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