sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Using an online platform, set each volunteer up with their own campaign page , which they can personalize with a photo and description of their connection with your cause. For example, a nonprofit raising funds to build houses around Christmas might host a contest to see who can build the best gingerbread house.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

For years, I’ve been a vocal critic of Facebook’s policy not to provide advertising grants to nonprofits. So, I’m thrilled that my colleagues at ActionSprout with support from Facebook, are giving away $2 million in Facebook advertising credits to 2,000 nonprofits. How #MyGivingStory Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever – Guest Post by Joe Waters. Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Disruptor: Facebook. Not convinced that Facebook has been a disruptor?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Help the organization get authorized for receiving donations on Facebook. If your organization has benefited from Facebook birthday fundraisers, you can be made an administrator and thank those fundraisers and their donors. Do this weekly or monthly.

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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. You can also hold a costume contest if you have enough people show up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone. The ins and outs.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

What platforms do they use? Try to focus on the platform most used by your target audience. Create a content schedule (weekly or monthly) to post consistently on the social media platform. Post a Facebook survey. Communication on social media platforms tends to be highly organic and conversational. Run a contest!

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Luckily, there are a number of online platforms and resources at your disposal to create engaging marketing campaigns that will grow your customer pool, earn more revenue, and help your business reach new heights. Let’s jump into the essential marketing platforms to add to your strategy and how you can harness their full potential.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That means you must have a comprehensive understanding of your supporters’ demographics and interests Leverage tools like your CRM platform and previous social media analytics to pinpoint who your audience is and what they care about. The content you post should be crafted with your platform and audience in mind. When should you post?

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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.) .

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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. Social media isn’t only for fundraising!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With the right text-to-give platform, your nonprofit will be able to quickly access any funds donated. However, in general, the text-to-give process looks like the following: With your text-to-give platform, you’ll set up a shortened phone number, known as a shortcode. They should receive an email confirmation of their donation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. Expand this task to managing a public contest for supporters to email in pictures that volunteers can then clean up and put into the master library. Facebook Fundraising Stewardship. Social media analytics report. Virtual Volunteer Tools Bundle.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With a virtual event platform, a virtual holiday fundraiser can host a range of session types and engage with remote audiences in new and exciting ways. You can consider hosting some of the same gala ideas in a physical event space, but attendees will view the event through a live streaming hosting platform. . Online Voting Contest.

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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. It is amazing that every nonprofit does not already have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or all three and more social media platforms. Image courtesy of Fundraiser Help. Interact via social media.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Try hosting a Twitter (now known as X) Q&A relevant to your mission or service or a livestream on Twitch, Instagram, and Facebook. Challenge your members to a photo contest, and require that all entries use the same branded hashtag. Making it a monthly occurrence gives your members a reason to hit your follow button.

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Whole Whale

MAY 23, 2022

Use hashtags, post photos, and hold contests to get people engaged with your campaign. If you are fundraising on Facebook or Instagram, try to use the native donation tools of that platform. Try using crowdfunding platforms to reach your goal. And don’t forget to share your fundraiser’s link!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As arts and cultural organisations around the world are reopening their doors and welcoming visitors back in person, it’s more important than ever to encourage visitors to engage with your organization on social media platforms which can provide authentic advertising and help to build back those visitor numbers. Selfie stations .

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Facebook provides an unprecedented opportunity for nonprofits: 200 million monthly active users, about half of whom are signing in and communicating with their friends on a daily basis, is an organizer's dream. The Love Without Boundaries Foundation created a cause despite being small, entirely new to Facebook, and having no paid staff.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

Since the Twive contest kicked off a couple months ago, these nonprofits got to work. They did keyword searches on Twitter to talk to people they have something in common with, began engaging people on Facebook with conversation topics, and pinning images on Pinterest to get the sharing going. You’ll be proud of yourself, trust me.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

Fundraising Results: Close to 18,000 people participated in this online fundraising contest resulting in over $2 million dollars being given to 1,200 participating nonprofits. Using the Razoo platform, Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington’s online fundraising focus produced some very respectable results. 1,886,434 dollars raised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As a board, we launched our campaign, today, on GivingTuesday using the crowdfunding platform CauseVox. The platform lets us set up own landing page and reach out to our networks customizing the ask. This year Facebook and PayPal offered $7 million in matching funds for the day.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Be careful with these types of contests as the motivation behind joining the email list may not be as aligned with the organization, and can lead to lower donation conversions as well as higher unsubscribes. Paid: Facebook lead ads. These are low-cost ways to acquire an email on Facebook from a targeted audience.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider devoting a specific part of the event to the VIP, such as a hole-in-one contest hosted by them or a signed raffle prize or auction item donated by them. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn event and invite your contacts to attend, then encourage them to do the same. Tap into your networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Razoo is a social networking platform built to, "promote social good and to inspire others to get involved by making giving and serving fun, easy, and meaningful." Its primary platforms are: Razoo.com : The social network itself. SpeedGranting : A Facebook funding application. Good Happens : Their blog.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising (one of the big things you can do on our fundraising platform) accounts for ? As we all know, social media is a great place to fundraise, so leverage the power of these platforms with a one-day social media sharing event. Livestream fundraisers can be done with Facebook Live and Instagram.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Haiku's may be submitted on three different platforms: 1. ZeroDivideFacebook Page - If you are on Facebook, please post your Haiku on our discussion board, [link].

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Charles Porch – Facebook – Charles Porch supports marketing partnerships for Facebook around public figures and non-profits.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With a virtual event platform, a virtual holiday fundraiser can host a range of session types and engage with remote audiences in new and exciting ways. You can consider hosting some of the same gala ideas in a physical event space, but attendees will view the event through a live streaming hosting platform. . Online Voting Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and #GivingTuesday launched #MyGivingStory – a social media campaign and contest that asks people around country to tell their giving stories: to whom they give and why it is meaningful to them. I am honored to be a judge for the contest! The call for submissions runs through November 24.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Charitable giving through online platforms has risen exponentially over the past several years , and that trend’s only continued since COVID-19 forced nonprofits to postpone, or even cancel, their in-person fundraisers. Find out more here ! Online Payments frees you from time-consuming data entry!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We saw a 108% increase in dollars raised on the Qgiv platform and a 100% increase in the total number of donations to our clients. Choose the right platform that will set you up to get the most out of your campaign. Our platform also provides personal fundraising dashboards for participants and tools for gamifying the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Check it out: Click for our full Give to the Max Day 2012 results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. Later, Facebook Pages were introduced and many nonprofit s have set these up as their institutional hubs. on Facebook. The Facebook Page FAQ tells how Facebook can convert your group into a Page for you.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

All donations will go directly to your organization through your website, mailbox or giving platform. Host a contest or giveaway on your social platforms to gain traction and increase engagement. If possible, post daily on Facebook and Instagram, and two or more times per day on Twitter. Social media tips.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. List of nonprofit donation platforms. Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Website or event page so people can find it.

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