Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Alliance for Tompotika Conservation , Cacapon Institute , Project Kindle , and Project ABE take away the highest honors in the Adobe Show Your Impact 2009 Design Contest , co-sponsored by software company Adobe Systems Incorporated and TechSoup.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Digital sponsorships offer a ton of ROI and are mutually-beneficial for both the organizer and the sponsor: Sponsors get broad exposure and high visibility before, during, and after your tournament; organizers get an easy-to-manage sponsorship with no additional costs (uploading a logo versus designing, ordering, and installing signage).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! If you're not familiar with this cool contest, check out last year's winners. It's that time of year again! What time, you ask?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The Chase Community Giving. The Chase Community Giving. The top 100.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

If you're not familiar with this contest and you want to jumpstart your creative inspiration, check out last year's winners. Stay tuned for details on an upcoming free webinar on creating successful marketing campaigns featuring Asthma Free School Zone , whose Idle-Free NYC campaign was a runner-up in the 2009 Show Your Impact contest.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Just a few weeks ago, we put out the call to nonprofits and libraries in the United States and Canada to demonstrate how their innovative use of Adobe software acquired through the TechSoup product donation program helped them change lives, communities, and the world for the better. Other Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

It is tempting to allow board members to skip fundraising, but this useful list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization, and only a few involve directly asking for money. Donate your skills (graphic design, strategic planning, human resources).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

There are many ways to reinvigorate your program. The following information and guidance are intended to inspire you to take a new look at your employee giving program or employee crisis fund through a fresh lens. If your CSR programs are not integrated across lines of business and support departments, keep in mind this is a journey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Using an event management platform designed specifically for golf fundraisers can make it especially easy to transition to a virtual or hybrid event ahead of time or even last minute. This technology is available to nonprofits and those planning events that benefit one at no cost through GolfStatus.org and the Golf for Good program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Children’s Hunger Fund : If you are collecting feedback from participants in a program using an online platform, make sure you test the system with participants before rolling out widely. Drop in the Bucket : When developing a project for a remote area in a developing country, the less obvious things can get in the way.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. You can further promote your volunteer page with Google’s Ad Grant program. Then, recruit a speaker for the event and put together a quick presentation explaining what the volunteer program is all about.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Monthly donors give 42% more in one year than one-time donors and about 45% of donors participate in a monthly giving program. Micro-donation programs. While micro-donation or give-back programs may not be extremely lucrative opportunities, every penny counts. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Volunteer t-shirts are also a great way to promote your volunteer program to a larger audience. You can use a t-shirt design platform like Bonfire to design your t-shirts in any way you want. Branding your water bottle design with your organization’s logo and colors will also help raise awareness of your nonprofit.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 28, 2022

While your chosen livestream platform should provide instructions, you’ll need content to design an exciting and engaging program for your stream. Some nonprofits have seen huge success incorporating audience reactions or contest submissions on the stream. Learn the streaming basics.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Incentivize engagement by hosting a giveaway or other fun contest just for new followers on your platform of choice. Make sure to mention the contest in your regular emails and newsletters so your entire mailing list will know about it. Just like. a multi-channel approach to fundraising. Instagram story stickers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Social Media in Program Delivery.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Now that submissions have been closed for this year's Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest , it's time to give your two cents and vote for your favorite submissions ! Which designs do you like best? And which organization made the biggest impact with their creative programs? Who had the most effective marketing?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the top platforms you can leverage to get the word out about your business, including: Your Website Social Media Mobile App A well-designed marketing plan can give your business the fuel it needs to bring attention to its services, products, events, campaigns, and more.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 9, 2024

Horse Race Game Design a mini racetrack using cardboard or felt. Mint Julep Making Contest Hold a friendly competition where guests create their best mint julep recipe. Your invite, printed program, any swag, on our website, social media are all great ways to spread the word and get people interested in engaging with your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. The design is very important. I'm sure I've missed something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your plan should also include what you’ll do when you’re NOT asking for money like donor communications, stewardship, and warm touches — all designed to give the donor a GREAT experience. Start by mapping out what programs and services you plan to offer during the year. This number is your direct program cost.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

The change required major cuts to their programs, a new focus when working with sponsors, and a drive to make it more inclusive for a broader audience. Both formats share a similar theme and some program details overlap, but they differ in several specific ways to accommodate the restrictions of their distinctive formats.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A volunteer appreciation program is simple to create and maintain. In this article, we’ll show you examples of how to demonstrate your appreciation and best practices to maintain a consistent volunteer appreciation program. The ideas are endless: bowling nights, trivia contests, cocktail hours, weekend barbeques, and more!

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

How to Design an Engaging Hybrid Event. Creating a program that works for both purposes won’t be quite the same! A small live audience provides an additional layer of excitement to live programs. But we can’t overlook the high value of continuing to engage remote donors in the future. That’s where “hybrid” events come in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2012

New to TechSoup — the Adobe Foundation's Nonprofit Training Program provides a series of donated online training courses for Dreamweaver, InDesign, or Photoshop to nonprofit staff. Donations from this program allow one user to access Adobe software training videos on lynda.com for three months. Online Training Products.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest. You could also have custom race t-shirts designed to feature all of your teams and sponsors. Organize age-appropriate carnival games, incorporate a pumpkin carving contest, rent a bouncy house, and have your most artistic staff member or volunteer paint faces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. So, what’s different about this contest than other online contests? Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. This can be a great tie-in for a workplace giving program.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

The top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs in the United States raised an astonishing $1.05 Fundly Overview Fundly’s online fundraising platform is designed to help individuals and charities launch peer-to-peer fundraisers without hassle and without startup or hidden fees. billion in 2022. Learn more about pricing and fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The event is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program. I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. Instagram Contests and Hashtags. Have you used a contest? It was called the Keep ‘Em Wet campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Consider creating a virtual volunteer program and brainstorm ways that your supporters can help digitally. UrbanPromise Charlotte implemented a program during the pandemic called “Family Meetings.” In response, they created “mega-virtual troops” to keep the girls engaged while their regular programming was canceled. Bingo Night.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Group Tickets: These tickets are designed for groups of people attending together, offering discounts for purchasing multiple tickets. That’s why you should design a visually appealing, user-friendly event page on your website that highlights key event details, including date, time, location, and ticket pricing.

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