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5 Steps to Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign

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In this post, we will teach you how to effectively increase your fundraising proceeds through the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising. Setting Up Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign. Increasing your proceeds through P2P fundraising relies heavily on proper setup of your campaign. Select Your Campaign Type.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Booster launched its first campaign in 2013. “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games.

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

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The revenue generated from peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns is typically greater than crowdfunding or ticketed events, but that amount could reach even higher levels if nonprofits better understood why people give. . This book by the Heath brothers teaches you how to make your ideas and stories unforgettable. By Adrienne Maree Brown.

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How to Attract Donors From Around the World With Your Virtual Event

Classy

Creative messaging and clear instructions helped the organization exceed their campaign goal and expand their donor base to engage for similar campaigns in the future. Their Classy campaign featured language that explicitly called out how someone could become a virtual runner regardless of where they were located.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

And in this post by Joanne-Fritz, How to Close the Loop with Donors by Email , she shares how nonprofits can provide “closure” after fundraising campaigns. Creating marketing campaigns based around current holidays or events is a no brainer for nonprofits, but there’s a catch. Give a teaser for an upcoming campaign?

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research.

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