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Engaging Your Donor Community: 5 School Fundraising Tips

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When done well, fundraisers can become beloved annual events that your community looks forward to year after year. How do you turn a standard campaign into a fundraiser your community will love? Think about the people who make up your community of donors. Movie nights. Simply focus your attention on donor engagement.

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3 Lessons For Fundraisers From “Die Hard”

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This article contains spoilers for the movie “Die Hard.” . Depending on who you ask (me), “Die Hard” is the best Christmas movie of all time. Now that I’ve either made you my best friend or alienated you forever with that statement, let’s get into the lessons I believe all fundraisers can take from this movie !

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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

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Reminding myself and my team that we will come out stronger as a company and as a community. Finding joy where I can , including walks in the snow, movie night at home, new accounts at work, amazing clients, Zooms with college buddies, and my amazing family. Not romanticizing the olden days , the “normal” days.

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33+ Raffle Basket Ideas to Wow the Crowd & Win Support

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Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. Movie night basket. Bundle together gift cards for streaming services, popcorn, candy, and sodas to create the perfect movie night basket. Movie tickets. Local goods basket. Lottery tickets.

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The social sector has a negativity bias. Here’s what you can do about it.  

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Leverage the George Bailey Effect The 1946 holiday movie It’s a Wonderful Life tells the story of George Bailey, who is considering taking his life on Christmas Eve, because his problems feel unmanageable. The movie ends with George realizing that his life was pretty wonderful after all.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Offer tickets for your community to come watch the event and bring in a judging panel to determine the prize winners.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

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In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. The gaming community pioneered VR, but the technology is now expanding worldwide into all aspects of society.