Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When you’re planning your end-of-year fundraising campaigns, you really won’t want to miss out on all the fun the holidays provide. And if you commit to joining in on the spooky festivities, you can also develop some frighteningly fun fundraiser ideas your horror buff donors will love. Fall carnival.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

The key is making participation fun and frictionless. Other event types that can enhance peer-to-peer efforts include: Tributes End-of-year fundraising celebrations Contests Races Tournaments Galas Community service days Getting creative with events provides variety in the fundraising journey.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

We celebrate Earth Day just as winter is transitioning to spring, a tradition dating back to 1970. In recent years, Earth Day has evolved into Earth Month to continue the celebrations for a span of 30 days. Why Do We Celebrate Earth Day? Earth Day 2021 falls on Thursday, April 22, for most countries around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney. The idea is that by learning how to speak openly about your accomplishments, it helps others understand your strengths and skills.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Start Small Start with small, manageable projects.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

As Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business, the Nimble AMS team reflects on the reasons why associations benefit from an AMS built on Salesforce. This year, Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business. Fun and easy product training. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

In-person event fundraisers are fun! In-person events like galas, benefits, and dinner parties are formal fundraisers, and a great way to celebrate your organization’s achievements, connect with supporters, and raise funds. HOWEVER Do you have staff that can improve on the fun factor and get people out? Share your success!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Note from Beth: For the past two years, I’ve had the honor of facilitating a peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees who are hosting Giving Days. I just read a fun piece on Next Avenue called “5 Sesame Street Lessons We Need Again As Adults” by Bryce Kirchoff. Celebrate Yourself. Flickr Image from Carlos ZGZ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. by Eric Jensen. .”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! Juicy Blogging Circle: Grow Your Blogging Habit May 16-June 6, 2012 Virtual A fun group blog coaching experience! Celebrate your successes. Receive ideas, tips, resources, and cheerleading from the Juicy Blogging Circle’s facilitator (me!). Share your blogging goals for the week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. The two-week fundraiser had nine teams of social media influences and celebrities competing against each other to raise for money for nine different charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

And of course, we’d have fun while we did all of these things. In a distributed workforce like ETR’s, one of the keys to building an engaged and energetic culture is making an extra effort to respect and celebrate remote workers. Through it all, what mattered was that we were engaged in the learning, even when it just felt like fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. He had us do an exercise about celebrating failure.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home. Social fundraisers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. How can Have Fun, Do Good readers get involved with Traveling Postcards? First of all, you can make a postcard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This session offers leaders, managers and program officers engaged in philanthropic initiatives a rare chance to hear and discuss building innovation and effective technology into philanthropy with other colleagues, facilitated by a experienced panel from the philanthropy, nonprofit, and technology sectors. Did we mention fun?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Will you be spending Thanksgiving with friends who tell great stories, a relative who has wonderful tales from "back in the day," or just someone special whose life you'd like to celebrate? Whose life would you like to celebrate? Whose story would you like to capture?

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. As the kids reach or exceed their goal they earn a ticket to a church lock-in to celebrate the successful fundraiser. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. They’ll appreciate the opportunity to declutter their homes and support your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up. Gamify Self-Care.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Instead, have a fun cookout, or throw porch party honoring your donors. Celebrate holidays with your donors: Send them Valentines, Thanksgiving cards, April Fool’s Day notes…you get the idea. Have some fun! I once facilitated a focus group for the North Carolina Symphony, and the donors loved it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Sometimes it is very useful to have fun examples of new technology. What a great way to celebrate the myth with your child! One of her entries, " The Softer Side of Social Media " shares the story of how a friend set up an email account for her niece to email the tooth fairy.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2009

s lock picking session was fun for everyone wanting to try their hand in thievery, it presented Privacy Camp attendees with a lesson in security that is invaluable for anyone working with agencies hosting sensitive data. Privacy Camp 09 Though learning how to pick a lock was fun, Privacy Camp 09 had a lot more to offer. While Deviant?s

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

OneWebDay September 22nd A day to celebrate what the Web means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. and a listing of physical and virtual events go to onewebday.org and the OneWebDayWiki Blog Action Day 08 October 15 Bloggers, podcasters and vloggers post about the same issue on the same day to facilitate a global discussion.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. As the kids reach or exceed their goal they earn a ticket to a church lock-in to celebrate the successful fundraiser. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. They’ll appreciate the opportunity to declutter their homes and support your mission.

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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. In contrast, organizations that feature staff or member walls celebrating people's diverse talents and interests reflect the idea that this is a community of people who care about each other.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She made it clear from the start that we were expected to address each other by name and have fun with each other. But participatory facilitation can be taught. I avoid them. They're so frequently one-way drone fests. But I would go on the Wing's tour again in a heartbeat.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2013

They love getting together, they have a lot of fun and they love that they can make difference to a cause.”. We let our participants know that we are just the facilitators of this event. “Lifewalk is part of the social fabric of the GLBT community here in Dallas,” Tori Hobbs AIDS Arms Director of Development said. That’s key.”.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Youth Group Fundraising Ideas Small Church Fundraising Ideas Easy Church Fundraising Event Ideas Fundraising Ideas for the Church Choir Fundraising Ideas for Your Church Building Fund Fun Church Fundraising Ideas. A cook-off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. July: Ah, those summer months when we spend hours outside in the sun and fun. February: So, maybe your true love is trying to work off those extra pounds holiday pounds and really wouldn't appreciate the chocolate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2010

On the other hand, our group has also celebrated birthdays, weddings, and children's births, as well as provided support during breakups, illnesses, and other challenging life events. How to facilitate your Circle. You might be thinking, "I'm not creative," or "I don't have a big vision, so this teleclass isn't for me."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

The Causes Birthday Application Makes You Feel Good What's more fun than a birthday celebration? Thank You Beth Kanter, Celebrate My 50th Birthday Beth Kanter, How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Yearround Habit? I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But this becomes especially critical during the spring season when most nonprofits host key fundraisers, galas, fun runs, and more to generate revenue after the slower winter months. Provide food, small gifts, or experiences to celebrate achievements and bring people together. Celebrate milestones and achievements.

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