CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

To get started preparing for the most wonderful time of the year for nonprofits and charities, ensure you’ve covered your year-end fundraising basics with this year-end fundraising campaign timeline. If this is the case, then you should have a clear idea about how much you need to raise for the next fiscal year.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

Without the contributions of key sponsors, your nonprofit risks being unable to raise the money it needs to achieve its mission. Is your nonprofit ready to secure a sponsor for your next campaign? Check out these sponsorship request letter samples to get inspired: Sponsorship Letter for Events. Corporate Sponsorship Letter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

By Gary Wohlfeill , Director of Marketing at CrowdRise , who works with partners to develop highly engaging fundraising campaigns and leads the marketing team in developing the CrowdRise brand. If you think you can raise $5,000 but $15,000 is a major stretch, go for $5,000. And that’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re looking for a new way to raise funds, engage donors, and build connections, look no further than a charity golf tournament. And fortunately for nonprofits, charity golf tournaments do much more than simply raise mission-critical funds. Use ChatGPT to help plan your campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

This will help you create a more compelling and meaningful campaign. Check out the sample of the book club below!) Try out different types of fundraising events or campaigns to see which ones generate the most interest and support. Did one kind of marketing or social media post have more success than others?

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

These days, peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and events take many forms: virtual runs/walks/rides , tribute/memorial campaigns, virtual drives. But no matter what types of peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns or events you’re running, they all require one key thing to be successful: participants. The list goes on.

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Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2012

As you have probably experienced yourself, raising money for your nonprofit campaign on social media is like pulling teeth. According to the 2012 Nonprofit benchmark Social Network Benchmarking Report, 98% of nonprofits didn’t raise a dime on Facebook, which is second most trafficked site on the web in the U.S.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 4) Activate. 5) Acknowledge.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 31, 2021

Despite having a board that wasn’t comfortable with social media or virtual fundraising, they turned to CauseVox and created a virtual awards ceremony event that knocked their fundraising goals out of the park. Raising More With Less Effort With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising On CauseVox. This was truly a grassroots campaign.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Or else it’s time to look blankly at the page while you try to plan your year-end fundraising email campaign because you’re not sure how many emails is too many or what your emails should include. These emails should coincide with your wider, multi-channel year-end campaign promotion timeline. Deep breaths. Let’s dive in!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As technology evolves, there are new ways nonprofits like yours can take advantage of advancements to save time and raise more money. AI for fundraising helps charities streamline operations and optimize donor engagement so you can increase your efforts to raise money for your cause. How can charities use AI? AI Writing Assistant.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With peer-to-peer fundraising, donors raise money on your behalf by leveraging their personal networks. In order to attract fundraisers to participate in your campaign, you first need to come up with an exciting theme to build your fundraising event around. Promote your peer-to-peer event on social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors. How did you co-created the campaign? The original goal was to raise $10,000 within 5-days.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Inspire your supporters by creating a campaign that engages your community, promotes your brand, and encourages generous donations. In the four years since its inception, Library Giving Day has produced impressive results: 450 library organizations have reported a total of more than $5 million raised. Need inspiration?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

billion was raised in the US alone ! If you plan to participate this year, start preparing today with these tips and resources for a successful GivingTuesday campaign via GivingTuesday.org. Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. In 2020 approximately 34.8

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS) is a a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. 3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Here are some ideas for recruiting more participants for your next peer-to-peer campaign or event: Create powerful messages – To get your supporters excited about helping you raise funds, it’s important to have a compelling story. How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Giving Tuesday is just around the corner , and a great way to make the most of it is to encourage volunteers to raise money for you from their friends on Facebook that day! Very few nonprofits received matching funds, but over $120 million was raised for charity. A lot more people will raise funds for us if we ask than if we don’t!

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

billion was raised in the US alone ! If you plan to participate this year, start preparing today with these tips and resources for a successful GivingTuesday campaign via GivingTuesday.org. Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. FLIPCAUSE EXAMPLE CAMPAIGN.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Social Media for Social Good collection from NTEN and NetSquared calls for your case studies in leveraging social media tools in your program work. Social Media for Social Good. Everywhere you turn, you’re hearing about social media.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Author’s Note: Recently, we used paid social ads to help a global nonprofit, Humanity & Inclusion , gain insights into their target audience. But it would allow for a healthy amount of targeted social media advertising. We started by designing three campaign concepts, ranging from “emotive” to “provocative.”

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re starting a new nonprofit, you already know that you need to raise money. Fundraising Planning When You Are New to Fundraising No one starts a nonprofit to raise money. In other words, don’t try to raise as much as you can then figure out how to spend it. Smaller online campaigns. Many founders do.)

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. It's about how to plan a mutlichannel fundraising campaign.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

DC Social Media Week has arrived and there are tons of great panels and parties to attend. The growth of social media and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled mobile devices have changed the way Americans engage in the political process. From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media, Thursday, February 21st.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. ” NTEN launches its NTEN Challenge campaign every year.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. Lesson #1: Voice. Lesson #2: Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Totally Baldacious is the latest campaign from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and it’s turning heads! Well, it’s turning them bald… “The Totally Baldacious campaign is a great way to show your love and solidarity with cancer patients while you help raise awareness and funds for cures.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bake sale Bake sales are always a delightful way to raise funds for your organization. And the best part of hosting a raffle is that you can combine it with another fundraising event or campaign to raise more money for your cause. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. The mustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. If you check out my page , you can see that the entire campaign was run online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

Last year, seventy eight libraries participated and raised over $737,000, with their average gift size being $172. Don’t worry – you may only have three days to plan your campaign, but by following the steps below you can still successfully participate and engage your donors. 11am: Second social media post(s).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. Start looking for it!).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Raising the money you need to fully fund your budget doesn’t happen by accident. It’s easy to get tunnel vision about money, and spend all your time thinking about money and how you’re going to raise it. How much money do you need to raise? You need a plan for fundraising success. Focus on donors, not money. And start writing.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept.

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Doing so will make your emails more compelling to participants and ultimately more effective for your campaigns. Here are some ideas for creating more targeted and engaging email messages for your peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns: 1. Take control of your data.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Set up a Facebook fundraiser yourself, either a full-on campaign or a mini-fundraiser like a $5 Friday. Setting Up a Facebook Fundraiser First, let’s look at the Facebook fundraiser, one where you set up the campaign yourself. Once you are approved, you’ll be ready to launch your campaign. Go here to set up your campaign.

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Doing so will make your emails more compelling to participants and ultimately more effective for your campaigns. Here are some ideas for creating more targeted and engaging email messages for your peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns: 1. Take control of your data.

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