The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Foreseeing the Bumps in the Road: An Intro to P2P Fundraising Challenges Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising provides a powerful way for nonprofits to engage supporters and raise money for their cause. This highlights the need for nonprofits to understand the common pitfalls and have strategies to address them.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Instagram is especially useful for nonprofit event coordinators. A Bloomerang survey found that 44% of over 500 nonprofits surveyed said they’re active on Instagram. We’ll highlight best practices for promoting events on Instagram using creative marketing strategies that will help your opportunity stand out from the crowd.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Halloween can give your nonprofit a great opportunity to have supporters run peer-to-peer fundraising for your cause. Have a donor or group of donors agree to match all donations made to your nonprofit on Halloween, up to a certain amount. Halloween Costume Contest. Pumpkin Carving Contest. Halloween bake sale.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 28, 2022

When COVID hit, every nonprofit turned to auction technology to keep fundraising. As the state of the world continues changing around us, fundraisers need to learn the basics of these critical technologies, so you’re equipped to plan your next event and adapt it to any obstacles your nonprofit may encounter in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Last month, during the Nonprofit Technology Conference plenary session on placing little bets and learning from failure , we issued a challenge to 1,000 nonprofits in the audience. Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.”

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. With the right text-to-give platform, your nonprofit will be able to quickly access any funds donated. Market Your Nonprofit with Text-to-Give. Use Text-to-Give in Fundraising Events.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. 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.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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. Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That means nonprofits need to continue to be flexible and think on their feet. Your nonprofit would then be responsible for promoting the event and recruiting teams. Or, plan your own trivia night where your nonprofit is responsible for hosting and recruiting. Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Many nonprofits prioritize spring fundraising, making this a busy and lucrative time of the year for fundraisers. In fact, whether your nonprofit is in need of a quick financial boost or you want to engage your supporters in a prompt yet effective way (or both!), A 24-Hour Spring Fundraising Blitz On Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Contests have also helped inspire nonprofits—motivated by cash prizes —to dip their toes into the social fundraising waters.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. In our 2020 Navigating the Unknown Report , we found that over 50% of nonprofits pivoted to virtual events last year. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay! Let’s get started.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you have the power to turn the winter season into an opportunity to engage your supporters with a peer-to-peer fundraiser! Holiday Baking Competition Invite local bakers to participate in a holiday baking contest.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Inspire ” video contest. Give others the gift of an inbox makeover by following this Email Charter. Disclosure: we like any opportunity to link to the “Nonprofits with Balls” blog, because it’s wondrous. Read more posts on our blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of " embedded giving." That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Here's my contest. Fine Blog .

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. Their Healthy Schools Builder provides online school health training webinars, toolkits for implementing best practices, and a database of school health grants. " campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that almost 70% of nonprofits are planning to incorporate virtual elements into their events in some way, whether that’s with hybrid events, virtual-only events, or a combination of all of them? This is because this strategy involves recruiting passionate supporters to fundraise on your nonprofit organization’s behalf.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Roy Cheran is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. Roy is the Vice President of Marketing at DonorPro , an innovative software company that helps nonprofits grow their fundraising revenue by an average of 37 percent each year. With nonprofits, evaluation is not in bold and it is dimly lit. 3) Average Gift Size.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. What is your nonprofit's mission? The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates. Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! Eligibility. a) Nondiscrimination.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Hosting fundraising events, whether online or in person, can yield great rewards for nonprofit organizations. The livelihood of any nonprofit usually rests on receiving donations from individual and corporate giving, legacy planning, and fundraising events. Social media contests. What is Digital Marketing?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

50 gift card for $5,000 raised). Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Help Them Follow Personal Fundraising Page Best Practices. Peer pressure has a funny way of inspiring larger gifts. Show gift names and amounts on a donor wall. Encourage them to start a team of fundraisers.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

Companies and nonprofits are trying to harness UGC so that supporters and customers can carry positive marketing messages to their friends and their friends friends in a way that is more effective than traditional top-down advertising. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. It might not be money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Download 54 Ways to Skyrocket Your Nonprofit Email List ! Get creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. Networked Nonprofits understand this. It’s quite another to put it into practice. Think of Professional Learning As A Gift To Yourself. Let me explain.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

nonprofits on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. Will there be matching gifts? If there are going to be a ton of moving parts to your Giving Tuesday strategy, create a run of show and practice! Matching Gifts. Your Gift Today Gives More. We have a gift for you. Beginning of the Year-End Matching gift campaign.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

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

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The grand prize winner will be announced at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans on March 21. This video has been viewed over 1.5

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See3

MAY 1, 2007

Unfortunately, Katrin neglected to mention DoGooderTV, but we know that next time she will give DoGooderTV, which hosted the NTEN – See3 Nonprofit Video Contest , a big plug. 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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the shift to virtual fundraising and engagement over the past several months, technology is more important than ever before for the nonprofit sector. By now, it’s clear that the right tools to help you generate and use data in smarter ways will be key to ensuring resiliency for your nonprofit going forward. Social media.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This led to acquisition tactics like iPad giveaway contests, buying lists and hiding unsubscribe buttons and practices of “email blasts”. While these practices grew the size of lists, they created an explosion of email and over time an increasing number of complaints. Consider adding popup forms on your most visited pages.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. They just announced a program to give nonprofits some free “pro&# accounts. So what can nonprofits do with Flickr? You can see the Humane Society Seal Photo caption contest here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Offer incentives to those participants who receive the largest number of gifts, highest amount raised, most emails sent, and self donations. Register as a #GivingTuesday partner at www.givingtuesday.org.

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See3

MARCH 3, 2008

You can see more great nonprofit videos at DoGooderTV. Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment mul-timedi-a.net Second Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards… Die empfohlenen Politiken tragen notwendig zur Verschärfung großräumiger, kleinräumiger und sozialer Ungleichheit bei. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Nonprofit organizations often face the challenge of raising funds on a tight budget. Affordable Ideas for Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraiser In this blog post, we’ve curated a list of 27 affordable fundraising ideas specifically tailored for nonprofits. Why would we lie about that?)

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

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 FEB 11, 2008 john.he.is

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See3

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. 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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See3

MARCH 19, 2008

It is great to be out of the still freezing Chicago and I am looking forward to meeting with many of the 1,200+ folks who have come to talk about what technology can do for nonprofit organizations. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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