Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The content we presented went from high level overview to on the ground practice, with each chunk punctuated with an interactive exercise with the audience that allowed them to share insights with another people in the room. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Considerations: have an impartial umpire or judge for the games so that its a fair contest for all. A virtual race can be based on any type of exercise. It is usually walking or running but you could also think about cycling, swimming or a particular exercise that is more suited to your audience. Live-Streaming. Virtual Race.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

Gyms may be closed, but that shouldn’t prevent us from keeping up with regular exercise and prioritizing our health and well-being. Motivate your employees to get moving by sending out daily exercises through your company’s communication channels while remembering to be mindful of everyone’s busy schedules.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Contestants lasted as long as 70 hours before MrBeast decided to end the competition himself! Host a virtual endurance event! Bingo Night. Who doesn’t love a good bingo night?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The project could have been an exercise in guilt and public humiliation, but instead, it felt like a game. We won the costume contest. Yes, trying to protect the planet from plastic pollution and inspire others to cut their plastic consumption can be hard. But it’s also fun. How many points do I get each time I refuse a plastic straw?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Alliance for a Healthier Generation : The Alliance offers some pretty cool tools for parents, kids, and schools to promote healthy eating habits and exercise. The site highlights and shares successes of the movement and uncovers areas of need on the road to their goals of grassroots network building and policy change. " campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. The first contest, they asked people to upload their photos and tag it themselves, which meant they had to create a Flickr account and know what “tagging” was. They've recently implemented an online photo contest that combines wisdom of the crowds with person to person fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2014

Remember sleeping, eating and exercising? Create a contest to see who had the best news and give them a silly trophy or something—you get the idea. Those need to make a comeback. Cement Your Relationship With Your Spouse. Your whole change-the-world plan is so dependent on the support of your life-partner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Discovery Exercise: 1. Discovery Exercise: 1. Additional Exercises. Discovery Exercise from Learning 2.0 : Setting up and using a Bloglines Account. Discovery Exercise from Learning 2.0: Read your feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition. Be sure to check into the latest exercising apps which make it easy to track your routes and number of calories burned. Offer a prize to the winner and ask everyone to pay a small entrance fee which will be donated to your charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. For me, the web and 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And, well, the whole exercise was depressing. John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading. I tried to picture a time when we were okay with only having a sliver of American society walking in our doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. And that essentially would boil down to a big old pissing contest. (“Yes! On a related note, I think a benchmarking study might be a useful exercise for nonprofits.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? I’m not particularly proud that in our country I can get a meeting with a representative more easily than the head of a nonprofit can.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets. With a pet photo contest, ask supporters to submit photos of their furry friends beforehand.

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

For an extra touch, associate a challenge with your network fundraiser to wear a certain color or do a specific exercise to post along with their custom fundraising page. While these campaigns are easier to host than a 5K, the work for hosting a successful network fundraiser looks different than your average peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The ability to create contests and pass out kudos enables the non profit to help the members to change their shopping and benefit the charity. Building the pages and widgets to promote the effort is a build once, use a million times exercise - the very thing that makes the internet what it is.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And we turned this into an exercise. . But a friend of mine says it’s like trying to get into a urinating contest with Niagara Falls, right, you’re not going to win that one. . So I think it’s part of the list. . Now, next slide. . “The Grassroots Fundraising Journal,” maybe.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a result, nonprofits may be discouraged from exercising their current legal rights to the full extent out of fear of violating the law. Development 3: A VC firm operating a grant contest supporting Black women entrepreneurs has been sued for discrimination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2017

And that’s why we offer social media events, NetSquared meet-ups, and educational trainings – all geared towards educating organizations on how to create a powerful digital story ( Nonprofits can submit stories to our storytelling contest through October 31, 2017 ). Tsering created this exercise to help. Don’t be intimidated!

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