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No Tricks, All Treats: 18 Spooktacular Halloween Fundraising Ideas

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While you’re searching for a haunted house to partner with, consider hosting your event at a haunted house that’s also willing to be your partner in a matching gift drive. Ghost story contest. After running the contest, host a reading around a campfire and listen to the scariest ghost stories in an appropriately spooky setting.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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Online fundraising is extremely cost-effective compared to other types of fundraising campaigns, and our Generational Giving Report revealed that almost 55% of donors prefer to go online to make a gift. Matching gifts drive. Partner with a corporate sponsor or a major gifts supporter to host a matching gifts drive.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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Peer-to-peer fundraising is an incredible opportunity that leverages your supporters’ personal networks to expand the reach of your campaign and solicit gifts. Depending on your mission, you might find more value in asking for in-kind gifts rather than fundraising for money. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas. Virtual supply drive.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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Even though the calls were simply to check in with donors and see how they were doing during a trying time, it also resulted in gifts. Focus on how their past gifts are still making a difference and give them opportunities to ask questions about your organization. This is any type of gift that isn’t financial! Bingo Night.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

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Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Team up with local news.

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Time to Give a Little

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You want to help the homeless? Not only are these gifts more accessible — regardless of age or income — they're habit-forming: transforming a small giver today into a major donor tomorrow.”. It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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