Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Keep the pitch focused on the issue, not what programs your nonprofit offers to help people. Frame the issue as urgent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. So, what better way to love the earth than contributing to a charity that works on environmental issues. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did !

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For example, LinkedIn is a professional network where people generally discuss issues related to the workplace and share professional updates. John Center for Homeless Men hosted a virtual Raisin’ the Rent house party event in March 2021. Make sure you test it in advance and troubleshoot any issues. Who shares your contests?

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. From a presentation by www.jamkit.com Pre and post-election blog by homeless writer as campaign tactic [link] Greenpeace Ocean Defenders campaign ???weblogdirect comments from all over world on issues around ???does Here and here ). it.org.uk ???real???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Wiki Issues.

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JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If we take the time to be an active part of our community and hear about the issues and opportunities our organization’s programs or services could address, yet aren’t given the authority to start working on addressing those issues or options, then we lose our ground and our momentum. But we need new resources, too.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). Provoking thought and invoking emotion contributes to link earning, but you can take it one step further and give people inclusion into an exciting event like fundraising, raising awareness, or a contest.

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