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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. Caption Contest. Caption contest. Snap, Tag, and Share.

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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

This post was written by Chris Bernard, the research and editorial director for Idealware , a nonprofit that creates impartial research and written resources to help other nonprofits make smart decisions about software. But surprisingly few nonprofits are talking about open data. But other countries have mounted similar efforts.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.) .

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. 13. Offer to support the development director, development committee, board chair, or ED in their fundraising tasks.

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8 Online Social Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Gary Wohlfeill , Director of Marketing at CrowdRise , who works with partners to develop highly engaging fundraising campaigns and leads the marketing team in developing the CrowdRise brand. Adding incentives like sweepstakes and contests help to engage zero dollar fundraisers, and create more fun and competition for everyone.

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Pepsi Refresh Project: An Insider's View - Guest Post by Bonin Bough

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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?

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Don’t forget to leave the door open and a glass of wine out for Elijah. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have “tip jars” for people to show their support for their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Online Course. BBQ for Good.

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