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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). It doesn’t have to be a gift. Then help implement these tools.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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If you host the event at a restaurant or local pub, offer a gift certificate to the establishment as a prize for the trivia winners. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading! Create a variety of gift basket options to appeal to a diverse group of donors and raise more money.

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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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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

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It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Have a float race, water balloon toss, or watermelon-seed–spitting contest to raise additional funds for a cause.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

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The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates. Our contest begins today, August 29, 2016, and closes September 11, 2016. Tell us how your mission is made possible with Symantec's help — for a chance to win awesome prizes! Eligibility.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You may save some of these options for major donors, or sustainers, those who have given at least three years in a row, or donors who helped with a high stakes campaign like establishing a matching gift, putting the organization in their will, helping with a capital campaign or doing something else spectacular. Do this without a solicitation.

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How to Fundraise for a Nonprofit

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There are two categories for individual gifts. Restricted : The donor specifically designates a gift to an identified project, purpose, capital need, or fund. Typically, an unrestricted gift is applied to operational costs. In addition to asking for a one-time donation, use your page to ask for recurring gifts.