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Charities Cry Foul on Chase Facebook Charitable Giving Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Very interesting to see the American Cancer Society on the list as its budget - according to a 2005 annual report linked on their Guidestar Profile is well over $10 million).

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What Lessons Will Pepsi Learn About Crowdsourcing for Social Good from Chase Bank Contest Fail?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

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New Year, New Format for In-Person Peer-to-Peer Events (With Examples!)

Connection Cafe

They made it fun by challenging participants to a car decorating contest! Pan-Mass Challenge and Winter Cycle, benefiting the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The virtual option for those who do not feel comfortable at an in-person event should come with very specific guidelines, recommendations, and materials.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

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. Take a page from the Lung Cancer Foundation of America’s #CatsAgainstLungCancer campaign and pull in your cats to talk about you c(l)ause. Those dollars add up. Rosé All Day Season.

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4 Tips for Using Facebook Fundraising for Year-End Giving

Achieve

If so, these beloved events were likely hindered due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying social distancing guidelines. Whether a conference, a gala, or a trivia contest, you can live stream the event directly on Facebook. If you’re considering doing the same, we recommend you do so on Facebook. About the Author.

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Event Fundraising Contests That Will Blow Your Mind!!

NetWits

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Nonprofits that apply and meet the guidelines receive increased upload capacity and branding options, the option to embed a Google Checkout button on their channels, and the opportunity to be featured in one of the promoted areas of YouTube. I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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