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Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.” Introducing the idea and smaller ways to practice the new way of thinking can help make this exercise more productive. Internal Planning and Project Implementation.

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All You Need To Know About Event Gamification

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You might also need to have one of your event managers monitoring the online forums in each session to monitor and facilitate the gamification. We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Consider photo contests from both in-person and online attendees.

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Boost Your Donations: Pro Tips for Tackling Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Challenges

The Modern Nonprofit

Practice your pitch – Gain confidence through preparation and repetition. Other event types that can enhance peer-to-peer efforts include: Tributes End-of-year fundraising celebrations Contests Races Tournaments Galas Community service days Getting creative with events provides variety in the fundraising journey.

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How Two Nonprofits Use Social Media To Help Save Fish – #keepemwet #SaveMarinsCoho

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

To facilitate the use of that data, the city hosted a contest to motivate the development community to make use of more than 100 types of datasets it had released — everything from aerial photographs and business licenses to parking meter information, liquor license applications, and street-sweeping routes. Here in the U.S.,

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know. Bingo Night.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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