Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Without further ado - drumroll, please - the winners of the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest are: Print/Photo. Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios. Other Media.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s not enough to say you want to make sure children don’t go hungry. You want to provide X number of meals to X number of children for X amount of time. You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests. What specifically are you doing to accomplish your mission?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Individuals reflected on why they gave to a certain nonprofit organization and then shared these personal stories in a contest form on the #GivingTuesday website. Project organizers analyzed the results from the 2015 and 2016 contests to find what helped them succeed and get more votes in 2017. A story length of only 500-600 words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve done this through social media, winning some of the early online fundraising contests. I also donated my share of the royalties from my first book, The Networked Nonprofit , to support the Sharing Foundation’s college education fund. Buy a Copy of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. Sports tricks contest.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Flicker photo: mastermaq Every year at the NTC , we partner with See3 to bring you the DoGooder Nonprofit Video awards. You may remember " Children Need a Bailout " from 2009, or " Breathe In, Breathe Out ," from 2008. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Both children and older patrons avidly use the library’s public access computers with current Microsoft applications.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Every parent wants to provide their child with the happiness and excitement of receiving a gift, and a toy and supply drive can make that possible for families who might not have the budget to buy their children the toy of their dreams. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Cookie or ornament decorating party.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Give them a chance to inspire those women by supporting your cause — you can even showcase photos of the women in your supporters’ lives on social media for a certain donation tier or send out a special IWD card to the women your supporters are donating for. Purim Costume Party Fundraiser (varies; usually early-mid March). BBQ for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to all my networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. Photo by Steve Garfield. He brought together his three passions: I’m known to get tattoos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Photo by Global Fund for Children. There are contests to push filmmakers to “ tell the story behind the still ” and television producers are turning to this compact video recording technology. Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. Every year, GrantStation runs a contest to uncover some of the best proposals that have been written. Submit your nonprofit's video or photo for a chance to win cash prizes! It's either that or not bathe them at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo in my flickr stream here. Dr. Hendrie passed around this photo of the 600 kids who now will be able to attend school because they have school uniforms. As many of you know, the Sharing Foundation won the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest at the end of 2006. The Sharing Foundation accomplishes so much!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more. The photo is a fundraiser for a local Budhist Temple which is trying to raise $100,000 for a building project (a large amount for that community) and money is coming from many small donations.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. but I enjoy saying " I am only 20 ") I this is the best gift ever! I just did).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants. In a museum, if something is appealing to watch, a person might share it by taking a photo or talking about it with a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Photo by Rich Anderson. My thought was to blog about the cause (a stretch), but to share as much learning about personal/social fundraising or what I'm learning about social networks - that should be of interest some readers - and even those I'm competing with for the contest. The question is "when is enough enough? (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

The photo above is of me, Cheryl Hanback, and Joel Remigio from 2002 when we won the "Swimming Upstream Award" for the diligent staff person who worked on the Riders Conference to make it a success. We hold a fundamental belief that technology and all of its benefits must be made available to everyone??? MediaJumpStart, 2002).

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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. Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pet Photo Contest Capture the community’s love for their furry friends by organizing a pet photo contest, with participants paying an entry fee for a chance to showcase their pets and win prizes. Any parents with children who are not so young anymore will likely have lots of kids’ books they’ll be happy to offload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. There is a category for Changing the World.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. It will also allow you to store 12 hours of videos and photos in Space Saver format so you can take your favorite content wherever you go. Want to share it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. My children will meet her for the first time. For those of you who are new, let me share why.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Pivot this to virtual by having each participant upload a photo or live stream themselves walking their “at-home” runway. For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Fashion show – Everyone loves a good fashion show!

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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. 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.

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