AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Given the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, hosting a virtual holiday fundraiser is the best way to take advantage of the opportunity to raise funds while keeping things light and fun! However you decide to organize the event, consider these fun virtual holiday fundraising ideas: Virtual Holiday Fundraiser Ideas. Online Voting Contest.

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

The key is making participation fun and frictionless. With the right mobile-first strategy, nonprofits can transform peer-to-peer fundraising into an interactive social experience that drives results. It empowers participants by giving them something fun and social to invite friends and family to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

. “Let’s make the process of experimenting fun – let’s start with a Facebook Friday.&# Their experiment is going to be focused on deepening and improving their Facebook presence for the Arts Council and getting everyone on staff to participate. Stay tuned for more … Sharing Some Facebook Friday Insights.

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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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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

Be sure to post regularly and interact with people who express interest in volunteering. A fun way to engage potential volunteers is to run a promotion where people can enter to win prizes for volunteering their time or services. Be sure to include clear instructions on how people can enter the contest and what they need to do to win.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If you’re looking for a fun, interactive, easy-to-implement hook for your nonprofit’s next campaign, you might want to check out QR codes. Before I show you some easy ways to generate QR codes, here are some examples of how nonprofits are using them: Be Rare Contest, South Carolina Aquarium.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Given the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, hosting a virtual holiday fundraiser is the best way to take advantage of the opportunity to raise funds while keeping things light and fun! However you decide to organize the event, consider these fun virtual holiday fundraising ideas: Virtual Holiday Fundraiser Ideas. Online Voting Contest.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Excitement is infectious—and a loud, enthusiastic crowd in the background of a streamed event will inherently make it more fun and engaging. Think back to the days of American Idol, when fans could call in to vote on their favorite contestants, and how it made us feel like an integral part of the show. Utilize inter-group dynamics!

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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. For a fun twist the kids are sure to appreciate, turn your car wash into a dog wash for the furry friends in your community! Candygrams.

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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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Greater Giving

JANUARY 28, 2022

How do you want guests to interact? – User-submitted content is a fun and inexpensive way to bring some levity to your event. Some nonprofits have seen huge success incorporating audience reactions or contest submissions on the stream. Do you plan to stream any or all of your in-person event to remote guests?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

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. Further, by inviting the students who are benefiting from the Family Stability Fund, the donors can get first-hand interaction with those that they are helping.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Fun, Games, and Giveaways! Fun is almost always engaging, especially humorous photos, articles, and observations. But make them fun too.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. This interactive panel will showcase nonprofit case studies about advanced social media campaigns with multi-channel marketing strategies linked to CRM services. We need you thumbs UP vote.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home. Peer-to-peer fundraising will likely naturally take place on social media, but you can take it a step further by adding a fun, competitive element. Who doesn’t like a fun bowling event ? Bowl-a-thon.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The most common mistake we see is trying to acquire a donor on the “first date” interaction only, instead of viewing donor acquisition like a longer relationship that must be nurtured over time. Email lists are more fun when you can talk about them with friends. Forward to a friend. Add a CTA to the top of your site.

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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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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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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. Both formats share a similar theme and some program details overlap, but they differ in several specific ways to accommodate the restrictions of their distinctive formats.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

In neighborhoods where birthday parades, bear hunts, and makeshift graduations ceremonies have been commonplace, the creation of neighborhood events and gatherings are a fun and appropriate choice for socially distant events. Option #1: “The Walk on Wheels is an organized interactive car parade and festival driven by kindness.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction. House parties are fun events in which your supporters, staff, and board members host their family and friends in their homes and encourage them to give to your cause throughout the event.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

If you are like me, the COVID-19/coronavirus experience has taught you a new term: social distancing, which refers to actions that limit interactions with others in order to slow down the spread of a virus (the CDC refers to these as community mitigation strategies ). But don’t forget to have some fun, too.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Don’t forget to ask supporters to comment, share, and interact with you online to promote the organic growth of the campaign. But instead of asking for a monetary sponsorship, enhance your relationship by adding a fun twist to the collaboration, such as a friendly competition or contest.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. Consider adding trivia contests, virtual scavenger hunts, escape rooms, polls, and even traditional board games to your event agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Trust me.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive, "heat," Flash-based map of the United States. Cool right?

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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. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

If the ticket sellers don’t feel they have the ability to quickly make decisions based on interactions, they may feel helpless when visitors or members come to them with issues. Encourage and Celebrate Fun. But there are lots of ways to encourage fun internally that can transcend into a magical experience for your visitors.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Event-driven social media is supposed to be fun. If your homecoming alumni and friends are having fun at the event, prompt them to post and share. Run contests to encourage people to share pictures or publish posts. Use an anonymous online survey or opt for something more fun such as poll stickers on Instagram stories.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The NTEN staff are great at posting the latest updates about sessions, coffee replenishment and fun contests. She previously served as Heartland Alliance’s first Manager of Interactive and New Media and as Director of Technology and Membership for the ACLU of Illinois. Bonus tip: the hashtag for the conference is #11ntc.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

After all, social media is a space for sharing stories, making charitable giving fun or even “cool,” and for making giving a little bit competitive through prize grant incentives. Youthprise, a youth-serving nonprofit and grantmaking organization put up $14,000 in prize grants for the contest.

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See3

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman NOV 15, 2007 I’m a Progressive.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Data from a recent Facebook contest we ran not show that we not only significantly increased our followers in a short amount of time, but we saw individuals then head over to our website to be engaged further. If you are a smaller organization, have a few people work together to keep the channels updated and have fun with it.

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