NetWits

JULY 18, 2011

It’s a great time to start fundraising contests if you’re managing or helping run a fall fundraising event. But as you go about your planning this season, I’d like to get you thinking about contests a little differently. What’s great about task-based contests is that you’re encouraging participants to use online tools.

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Charity Village

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

iA Financial Group is kicking off the fifth edition of its major philanthropic contest. From September 15 to October 15, 2021, charities whose mission includes, among other things, supporting the health and welfare of children (0 to 18 years of age)* are invited to answer the question “what would you do with a donation of $100,000?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2024

It should be mobile-responsive, attractive, and include features like: Online registration with secure payment processing Customizable text, imagery, and URL The ability to collect donations Sponsor onboarding and digital exposure Live leaderboards 1. Online Registration is Expected It’s an online world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

An event website gives supporters a centralized place to find more information about the organization and event, purchase teams and sponsorships, and even make a donation. Elements that add fun and excitement to your event, like hole-in-one contests, are also a prime sponsorship opportunity (and cover the contest’s fixed costs).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

This year’s tools tap into emerging trends, such as Messenger bots, cryptocurrency, and gaming for good, and also build on long-time successful fundraising strategies, such as e-advocacy, online contests, and monthly giving. GivingLoop focuses solely on offering monthly giving donation pages and recurring donor retention tools to nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania). Enter the Contest.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Your campaign message will serve as the foundation for all of your outreach efforts, marketing copy, and donation appeals. For example, when asking for donations at Christmas , you might focus your messaging on the season of giving or use religious language if that aligns with your target audience’s values.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Examples include text-to-give campaigns, merchandise fundraisers, and virtual contests. All you need to get started is space to collect donations and a reliable shoe drive fundraising coordinator. You can place these on-site at your nonprofit’s office or wherever you have permission to collect donations. Non-event fundraiser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Some of your best customers are the ones who’ve already shopped with you or donated to your nonprofit. Raise awareness for your Shop with a contest. A contest is a good way to get promotion for your Shop with your follower’s friends and family circles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Here's what Stephanie Strom, New York Times reported: JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities.

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Classy

JUNE 21, 2021

Similar to how impact blocks on your Classy campaign can help supporters feel like their donation is going towards a specific effort, breaking up your fundraising campaign into smaller, more targeted crowdfunding campaigns is another way to allow donors to support the individual effort that resonates most with them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

For example, adding hole-in-one or other contests (putting, closest to the pin, etc.) Golfers will look for easy ways to support the organizations they care about, so the ability to collect donations online is also super important for organizations to consider, as well as building donation asks into the day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

It’s a staggering proportion, considering that 3 in 4 Americans are likelier to volunteer than to donate money, and that 1 in 4 Americans volunteered in 2017. Today, we’ll teach you how you can use RemoteHub to recruit volunteers absolutely free of charge and even earn donations to your nonprofit organization! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Organize a Pumpkin Carving Contest. Why not host a pumpkin carving contest? The easiest way to organize a pumpkin carving contest is to ask your school or a local business to host it. Just make a donation on your online donation page. You can also hold a costume contest if you have enough people show up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. Then help implement these tools.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

You can auction off art donated by local artists, as well as jewelry, candles, and other crafts; trips donated by people who own vacation properties or timeshares; and gift cards to popular restaurants and businesses. Choose a movie, schedule a date and time, and ask for a donation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

Marnie Webb, one of TechSoup Global's CEOs was a judge for their contest, where winners are highlighted below. Presentation Contest! And a big congratulations to all the presentation contest participants. The first place winner will receive a $10,000 donation from. contest@sliderocket.com. Operation Asha.

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Care2

MARCH 1, 2012

How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities , authored by Geoff Livingston, was commissioned by the Case Foundation and presented in conjunction with Razoo. There are some great takeaways for nonprofits thinking abut social fundraising and communities considering organizing giving day events of their own.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ghost story contest. If you’re lacking a good collection of horror stories to tell, send a call out to your imaginative supporters to send in their scariest stories for a ghost story contest fundraiser. Increase your 5K registrations and donations by putting together an interactive website. Halloween decorating contest.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Spooky Donation Match: Candy & A Cause. Have a donor or group of donors agree to match all donations made to your nonprofit on Halloween, up to a certain amount. This can be a great way to encourage others to give, knowing that their donation will have double the impact. Halloween Costume Contest. Halloween bake sale.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Community Yard Sales Gather donated items from the community and hold a low-cost sale. By using volunteers and donated goods, your overhead costs will be pretty much near zero. All you have to do is gather prizes donated by local businesses and sponsors, then sell low-cost tickets for the chance to win them in your drawing.

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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. With some contests, the contest sponsor vets a list of participants before letting the crowd vote.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It also provides your supporters with more than one way to support your cause by allowing them to donate items to sell or make purchases themselves. You can also put out a donation jar for donors who want to support your cause but don’t want to purchase an item. Raffle One of the best spring fundraising ideas is to host a raffle.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2023

From pumpkin carving contests to haunted houses, there are so many ways to embrace this new season with fresh ideas. Pumpkin Patch Create a charming pumpkin patch and offer fun activities like pumpkin carving contests, hayrides, and pumpkin painting. This adds a little friendly competition and encourages more people to get involved.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

That's why they donate software to eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries to help them use technology to further their missions. The Technology for Good Contest sought to highlight the stories of how these groups use Microsoft software to help them create real community impact in Washington State.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 27, 2010

If you're a current Symentec Backup Exec customer (whether via TechSoup's donation programs or elsewhere), tell Symantec how your datacenter has taken advantage of the benefits of the tool — helping your organization save time, money, and the environment, with a reduced environmental footprint through a reduction in tape and disk use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I'm introducing the the Green Charity Donation Contest! Include a sentence or two about an environmental cause or organization where we can make donation online via Network for Good. *. The winner will receive a $20 donation from us. (This month she is helping Project Linus and the Pajama Project). Why Network for Good?

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Qgiv

JULY 5, 2023

Pere-to-peer fundraising is more than just a physical event, and there are many campaign ideas your organization to test out, including: Contests Challenges Crowdfunding DIY fundraising A-thon events Network fundraising Virtual storefronts Giving days And more! Host a competition where teams or individuals show off their basketball skills.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every dollar is tightly contested by other nonprofits whose missions are often equally as noble as your own. Revamp your donation page. You website’s donation page is unequivocally your most important asset when running a fundraising initiative. Make a check list of attributes you want your donation page to possess.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 25, 2023

Create Ambassador Contests One of the main reasons ambassador fundraising and marketing is so successful is the element of competition. But there are plenty of other ways to implement an ambassador contest. Therefore, it’s important to define your contest elements in advance. Let’s begin.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is taking submissions starting February 1st. The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is taking submissions starting February 1st. Are you a nonprofit?

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 14, 2008

For nonprofits, a well-run contest is often enough to raise a significant amount of money in ticket sales, entry fees and straight-forward donations But what about those contests that don't have an entry fee or other fundraising tool connected with them? Contests are staples in the nonprofit marketing toolbox for very.(

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Their dedication, passion, and contributions form the backbone of your organization, enriching your mission and amplifying the effect of every donation. She made it fun with decorations and a staff photo contest. This GivingTuesday , no matter what your campaign or theme, you can’t go wrong spotlighting the stories of your volunteers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to recognize and steward tribute donors: Dear Charity Clairity, Our small organization has been around for many years, but we have only just recently begun receiving donations “in memory of a loved one in lieu of flowers” for example.

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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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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some common reasons supporters create DIY fundraisers are to donate their birthdays or set up a memorial fundraiser. Your supporters can raise those donations at very low cost to your nonprofit. These reports show how much they’ve raised, who donated, and more. Keep peer-to-peer tools for recurring gifts year-round.

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