Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon. Have your students team up with their friends and go head-to-head for some friendly competition. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Online tutoring.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (NSPAM) is celebrated every September. Encourage conversations with friends and family about challenging the stigma and attitudes around mental health, or attend a local suicide prevention walk and invite your friends and family to join you. Donate to support their mission here.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

If you know you have a supporter base that are planning to give up drinks, treats, or Starbucks, challenge them to donate what they would spend on those weekly cocktails or daily croissants to your cause. SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. snapcracklepop Click To Tweet.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

Physical and emotional challenges tend to diminish, and a sense of greater independence increases. We could not help fund educational programs for children in our district without donors like you! On behalf of LPEF and all the children who benefit from your caring, THANK YOU again for making a difference in our community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Our Storymakers 2014 challenge kicks off August 26, so to get you inspired, I've compiled some great examples of digital storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns. Best friends Ariana and Marc want to celebrate their bat and bar mitzvah by building a playground in Chicago's South Side. Is it an inspiring video? Cool photos?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. The events happened right before Christmas when everyone distracted by holiday celebrations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. And now to the interview. Sometimes more!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. And now to the interview. Sometimes more!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

To celebrate my very first blog post, I decided to be brave: I will introduce an emgerging concept: “Attention Philanthropy” (AP). Nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs must confront the challenge of getting — and keeping — people’s attention to their great work. We welcome your comments and feedback. Get another!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

That works for some, but at Corazon Ministries, we realize that every person has a different need, challenge, or starting place. "My goal is to love them where they are, support them when they are ready to take the next step, and be the first one to celebrate when something positive happens.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” appeared first on Forum One.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” appeared first on Forum One.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Every day, these students struggled with self-esteem, grades, expectations, and friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children. Can I Sit With You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Look no further than the Ice Bucket Challenge , which raised over $200 million worldwide last summer. million challenge videos. million reached youth sports teams facing severe financial challenges. Just very minimal stuff,” said one Mississippi teacher.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” Kids with no food in the fridge.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are lots of ways to do peer-to-peer fundraisers, and holding events like a bike ride, a cook-off, or a “challenge” (insert first obligatory mention of the Ice Bucket Challenge) are some of the best ones. Arts and Crafts Fair Hold an arts and crafts fair that celebrates the creativity of local artisans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. And, it did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We know the burdens that can pop up, the mistakes, the challenges within these campaigns. I told someone just last week, you know, capital campaigns are a challenge in and out of themself. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Instead, Light defines innovation as "an act that challenges the prevailing wisdom as it creates public value." In a few of the schools and community organizations, this openness to ideas extends to students/clients/audiences who are given significant opportunities to propose, evaluate, and pursue new experiments.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2016

Value Chains of Benevolence: One of the participants in our self-help groups in Nepal started his own group for others to help them overcome challenges related to leprosy. – Jennifer Chase, Digital Marketing Specialist, effect:hope, The Leprosy Mission Canada.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

A growing number of nonprofits are offering match or challenge programs as part of their email campaigns. Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Closing the books.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This installation is the only one that cost more than $30--about $2,000 for the parts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

As we look at the challenges that we are facing in the world today, I firmly believe that education is the key to us coming together to solve them. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls. When I was 18, I went back to DRC and was reunited with my mother.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I met Van Jones about 10 years ago and he was doing criminal justice work and building the new program here, which was Police Watch, and really addressing police brutality, and we met in a Challenging White Supremacy workshop lead by Sharon Martinez back in 1995. Do not isolate. It's so easy.

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