AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Gamification can encourage friendly competition leading event attendees to interact with one another more authentically and naturally than they might otherwise. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Since shifting to the virtual event space, event planners have had to come up with creative ways to continue hosting profitable events. Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . But there is hope.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

Host a Volunteer Open House. An effective way to recruit volunteers is to host an open house where potential volunteers can come learn more about your organization and the different ways they can get involved. Be sure to post regularly and interact with people who express interest in volunteering. Run a Volunteer Promotion.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Gamification can encourage friendly competition leading event attendees to interact with one another in a more authentic and natural way than they might otherwise. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. Hosting a car wash is a classic fundraising event that’ll keep your community’s cars sparkling clean. Easy Fundraising Ideas for Kids. Candygrams.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Technically, nonprofit organizations have been hosting “hybrid” events for years. The key to hosting a successful hybrid event lies in combining these existing elements to suit both in-person guests and guests attending virtually. Events where remote bidders could still participate in the auction, were already hybrid events.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

And, we know a lot more about how to host virtual events and engage an online audience than we did last year. Send Donors A Fun At-home Activity. Consider providing your donors with a fun at-home activity that relates to your mission that they can do in their free time. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay!

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Virtual peer-to-peer fundraisers can increase the reach of your organization, are often more cost-effective to plan and host than on-the-ground campaigns, and provide an added level of flexibility and convenience for supporters who can’t attend an in-person event. Host a virtual peer-to-peer fundraiser movie night! Movie nights.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Gamification can encourage friendly competition leading event attendees to interact with one another in a more authentic and natural way than they might otherwise. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Host an auction. Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction. On the day of, check in with your hosts to ensure things are going smoothly.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

OneCause Overview OneCause’s peer-to-peer fundraising software places a strong emphasis on making fundraising “social, mobile and fun.” The platform approaches supporter-driven fundraising holistically, with opportunities for supporters to host events and launch challenges on behalf of your cause.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This means that for the foreseeable future at least, event professionals will have to continue to plan and host hybrid or virtual events. Adding competition, fun, and camaraderie to your virtual event will break up the steady flow of information, prevent people from becoming bored, and improve the overall event experience.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

Together, they offer an exciting, easily accessible way to fundraise that can reach a broader audience, while retaining the glamour, fun, and purpose of a traditional gala. In it, she will examine the key findings event planners uncovered while hosting virtual events and offer useful tips and tricks to create an engaging hybrid event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I love designing panels, not only the content but the interactive piece as well. We did a fun icebreaker having folks take a photo of each other with their smart phones and post on Twitter. Judy Chang presented an overview of PayPal’s contests, including its Regift the Fruitcake. ( I also learned about their giving app ).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

It’s been roughly two months since most of us have last been in an office, but thanks to video meeting platforms, messaging services, and modern-day technology, we can still have some sort of face-to-face interaction and continue to work alongside our teams. Virtual Show and Tell. Who said show and tells are just for kids?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Have a nice meal, hold a long conversation for the first time all day and venture away from the hotel to get to know our host city. The NTEN staff are great at posting the latest updates about sessions, coffee replenishment and fun contests. Bonus tip: bring cash. Follow on twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Jeff Achen is the interactive media strategist for GiveMN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. You can also send fun cards using Felt. Mentions at different times and places during any festivals you host. A set of screensavers and background images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Basically, a couple months before your book's release you contact bloggers, podcasters and vloggers whose audiences are a good fit for your book and ask them if they would like to interview you, review your book, have you guest post, or host an interactive event with you using a service like Gabbly. Flickr photo contest.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

If you are thinking of hosting an engaging event to secure crucial support for your mission in the year ahead, whether traditional, virtual, or even a combination of the two, read on. Hold a contest with rewards for Best Dressed or Best Background. We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause. While the five events on this list speak are all about physical activity, hosting a themed trivia night makes for a slightly brainier night out.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Along with balloons and birthday treats, CDS Global will be hosting an online game to be played via on tablets at our booth. Come learn why so many rely on Sage’s fund accounting and fundraising solutions, hosted services, and donation processing tools and enter for your chance to win an iPad. CDS Global. Salsa Labs. The Databank.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you are thinking of hosting an engaging event to secure crucial support for your mission in the year ahead, whether traditional, virtual, or even a combination of the two, read on. Hold a contest with rewards for Best Dressed or Best Background. We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising for 2021. .

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Have a strategy in place in case your internet goes out, such as a mobile hotspot or another host who can take over from a different location. Highlight Value and Impact.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed interactions with supporters to the digital realm, your organization probably undertook a transformation to boost your digital marketing efforts. Younger generations prefer interacting via digital platforms like social media, while older demographics tend to use email. . them and rather talk.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re planning a 5K, fun run, or walk, you can give your participants the option to complete the event in their own time rather than having to set aside a single day. Wondering how you can take your game-a-thon’s interactive aspects to the next level? Consider hosting a matching gift drive. Virtual trivia night.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

We’ve always been a band that engages in play, whether that means wearing crazy costumes or interacting with the audience. By 1973, we’d added our first audience participation segment, the Dance Contest. The contest happened about 2/3 of the way through the show, and created a break from the endless stream of songs which preceded it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

I was in a bar recently and found myself captivated by “Deal or No Deal,” a show that features the simplest game in the world: a contestant opens suitcases with dollar amounts (up to $1M) behind them. But the combination of the pressure on the contestant, the personality of the host, and the dollars involved make it an enthralling half hour.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed interactions with supporters to the digital realm, your organization probably undertook a transformation to boost your digital marketing efforts. Younger generations prefer interacting via digital platforms like social media, while older demographics tend to use email.

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

Using the data you collect from interactions with your organization, you can examine your donors’ information for specific behaviors which indicate a potential for major gifts. If you’ve previously hosted a peer-to-peer campaign, look through your donor data to find who’s previously made larger donations to your participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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TechImpact

APRIL 16, 2014

Host a Twitter chat or Reddit AMA. Run a contest on your social media feeds and give people the chance to win something by interacting, Retweeting, or liking a post on your social media feeds. This drives engagement and shows your nonprofit is fun, and doesn’t take themselves too seriously. Give away ANYTHING.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

With almost 40% of smaller nonprofits hosting at least two to five events every year, everyone involved with your organization, from your volunteers and staff to your donors and event attendees, will stand to benefit. If your nonprofit hosts events regularly, you should create a standing event sub-committee on your board.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Friendly Competition: Incorporating contests, leaderboards, and milestones in your campaign can foster a sense of competition, motivating fundraisers to reach higher goals and surpass their expectations. The flexibility of these campaigns allows nonprofits to tailor their fundraising efforts to their specific needs.

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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