Classy

JUNE 21, 2021

Livestrong has applied this approach to their Solution Grants Program, which focuses on funding solutions that solve everyday cancer problems. New in 2021, Livestrong opened up crowdfunding campaigns for each Solution Grant Partner with hopes to fully fund their five Solutions. Host a Contest With Multiple Ways to Participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. . Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The grant categories will be: Health. Arts & Culture.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2011

If you can write an original 4-8 line poem that reflects your non-profit's mission, your organization may be eligible for a Heart & Soul Grant of $10,000 or $5,000 USD! Do you want to celebrate the heart and soul of your non-profit? The competition starts today - March 1 and ends March 28, 2011.( read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2012

With so many incredible videos submitted to this year’s contest it was no easy task, but judges in the 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards have narrowed down the field of entries to 16 finalists. The 16 finalist videos can be watched on the Contest homepage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

The “best” definition is pretty straightforward – it is a nonprofit which received the highest number of applications during the contest period. And it gets even better, the best volunteer projects on RemoteHub can earn donations for their organizations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Intuit , the company that produces the favorite accounting software QuickBooks and financial management software Quicken (and TechSoup donor partner) is running a contest for small businesses (and nonprofits) to win a total of $35,000 in products, cash and free advertising. Tags: Finances Fundraising Grants for Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community!

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Care2

JULY 23, 2010

world, cause marketing contests such as Pepsi Refresh and Chase Community Giving have caused a different kind of ruckus. Because in cause marketing contests, charities and ordinary citizens are encouraged to reach out to their online networks and ask people to vote for their favorite charities. In the Web 2.0 What do you think?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. Can you do it?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The Technology for Good Contest sought to highlight the stories of how these groups use Microsoft software to help them create real community impact in Washington State. We're proud to announce the winners of this contest (in alphabetical order): read more. Microsoft believes technology can do amazing things.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! If you're not familiar with this cool contest, check out last year's winners. See contest details for specific eligibility requirements).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

Your nonprofit video will be featured on the YouTube homepage, receive a grant from the Case Foundation, get great prizes from Flip Video and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), and have your work showcased at a screening in Washington DC. And if you win? March 19 is the deadline.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Expand this task to managing a public contest for supporters to email in pictures that volunteers can then clean up and put into the master library. Manage the Google Ad Grant for nonprofits. The grant offers $10k per month in digital advertising that can drive traffic to main pages on your site. Virtual Volunteer Tools Bundle.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For the 5th year in a row, the annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest , presented by YouTube and See3 Communications , is open for submission during the weeks leading up to the Nonprofit Technology Conference. This year, winners will again have the chance to win: One of four $2500 grants generously provided by the Case Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This year, winners will again have the chance to win one of four $2500 grants generously provided by the Case Foundation , awesome video cameras from Flip Video , a free registration to next year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference provided by NTEN and more. Learn more about the contest guidelines and how to submit your video!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This post is part 2 of our New Age of Grant Management series. If you haven’t already, make sure to go back and read part one, Welcome to the New Age of Accountability in Grant Management. It’s just the contestants against the hard, cruel world, and it either brings out the best or the worst in people.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

You might get really excited about restaurant nights, candle parties, t-shirt sales, or voting contests. Grants are not a good option for new nonprofits because 99% of funders want to see several years’ worth of data showing the impact your programs have. So skip grants until you reach year 3 or 4 and are grant ready.

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

tbt – TBT, or “throw back Thursday” is for older imagesthat grant the viewer insight to your nonprofit’s past. Encourage interaction on your feed by running contests, asking questions, ask for a #regram, and encourage people to share your message. Be sure to cite the original poster, and tag it with the #regram.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2010

If you haven't heard the buzz, the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest is on. Contest winners will receive a $1,000 cash grant plus their choice of one of Adobe's CS5 Premium software packages. The judging process hasn't even begun, and we've already received dozens of remarkable submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Time will tell, but the contest has given us a jump start on our social media strategy.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The fundraiser—whether it’s an inspired event, online appeal or one-time contest—should of course be considered an important component of any non-profit’s campaigning effort. Create a timeline contest that encourages people to craft videos and photo sets boosting your fundraiser. Lean on your core supporters.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2010

Adobe and TechSoup Global are delighted to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Show Your Impact Design Contest ! Your submission could win your organization a $1,000 cash grant, plus your choice of one of Adobe's Creative Suite Premium software packages. See the contest details for specific eligibility requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Some of you may be familiar with the ongoing Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest from this year and the last. Tell your story and possibly win a $5000 cash grant plus more than $25000 in donated Microsoft products. You may have submitted your entries and you may have even been one of the winners. Stay tuned for more!

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

The Community Foundation recently hosted a three-week contest via its Facebook page that allowed nonprofits to vie for $500 to be used toward its programming. Nonprofits who received grants from the foundation in 2012 were invited to write a paragraph sharing with the community how they would use the $500 if chosen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

To celebrate their beta launch, they are offering a $10,000 Change Your World Contest Prize to the social change group or organization (this includes non-profits, student groups, volunteer networks, fundraising groups, or other networks organized around social issues) that starts a group on Razoo, and recruits at least 100 members by September 15th.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. Haiku's may be submitted on three different platforms: 1. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Now that submissions have been closed for this year's Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest , it's time to give your two cents and vote for your favorite submissions ! Which designs do you like best? Who had the most effective marketing? And which organization made the biggest impact with their creative programs? You tell us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

For years, I’ve been a vocal critic of Facebook’s policy not to provide advertising grants to nonprofits. I am honored to be a judge for the contest! This contest is for donors to share their story – so why not encourage your nonprofit’s board or donors to enter? How #MyGivingStory Works.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Chase Online Contest Draws Ire for Technical Glitches - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Chase Online Contest Draws Ire for Technical Glitches September 10, 2012, 6:24 pm By Cody Switzer The prospect of winning a grant from the annual Chase Community Giving contest prompts (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The fundraising goal for Give to the Max Day is to get 35,000 people to support their favorite regional charity, raising more than $3 million in donations and grants in just 24 hours! I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Be careful with these types of contests as the motivation behind joining the email list may not be as aligned with the organization, and can lead to lower donation conversions as well as higher unsubscribes. In-kind: Google Ad Grant. Here are some awesome campaign ideas for the Google Grant. Forward to a friend.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. You can further promote your volunteer page with Google’s Ad Grant program. It’ll give local artists a chance to show off their skills. And you’ll get a striking advertisement. Your website: Create a landing page dedicated to volunteer opportunities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The contest is all about moving the field of nonprofit video forward and encouraging cause video creators to try new styles and strive to make their work different. Different is just what The Case Foundation is looking for in this year's contest. To enter the awards, just visit the contest website and submit your video.

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