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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.).

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Why "Free Agent" Social Communities Rock

Care2

There is a lot of buzz about "free agent fundraisers" an individual using personal fundraising to raise money for a nonprofit organization. The free agent fundraiser is described in detail in Allison Fine and Beth Kanter's book The Networked Nonprofit. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000.

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Great reads from around the web on March 18th

Amy Sample Ward

." CHARITY SMACKDOWN:: Celebrities Compete, Charities Win www.charitysmackdown.com - Check out this interesting social fundraising campaign: "Each of the Smackdown Teams have from March 16th to March 26th to raise as much money as possible for the causes listed below." in cash for their organizations! ." Check it out!

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year.

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5 New And Quirky Nonprofit Social Media Tactics

TechImpact

Everyone knows promoting your nonprofit’s events, services, and fundraisers on social media is a good idea, but many do not know why, or more importantly, how, to do it. Host a Twitter chat or Reddit AMA. Find the left over pens from last years fundraisers, or t-shirts from the company picnic and free up some space in storage.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. When you’re running a fundraiser, people want context. We could have build a dashboard for statistics (donations, reddit ranking, retweet count, page views, etc.) But “buy your country a beer” is intriguing. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest.

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