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3 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

You can also leverage your nonprofit’s databases to narrow down your search during your volunteer recruitment. To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. Set up a tent outside of the student center and give away free doughnuts or coffee to attract people to your tent.

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23 Best Volunteer Appreciation Gifts to Show Your Gratitude

Bloomerang

Go the extra mile with your appreciation efforts by reviewing your volunteer database to gather data on your top-performing volunteers. You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. For school volunteers, you can gather thank-you notes from students and teachers.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Import Facebook donations to your donor database, noting that they gave to your Facebook fundraiser campaign. Even if you only have the donor’s name and not their email address, you should track them in your database in case they make another donation through another channel.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, we're going to centralized a database. College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. To get gamers to hook up and play.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Hiring people.

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

But at Pedal the Cause, because it’s a small organization, a small group of people, and we didn’t really want it to be a popularity contest, we kind of put it. And yes, I would say, even with high school and college students, you might have people who want to identify that way. So there wasn’t.