Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While these funds have a long-lasting impact, the event itself is over in the blink of an eye. Start by looking in your inner circle—do any of your nonprofit colleagues have a significant following and would be willing to support you? This feature is similar to hashtags but provides a location-based tag instead of a phrase-based tag.

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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. Well, now is your chance to tell us how Microsoft donations have helped your nonprofit or public library fulfill your mission and impact your communities. Transformations to Maximize Impact.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event, contests, matching gifts, and challenges. As important as donations are, the incredible value of #GivingTuesday is the opportunity to build relationships with your supporters and engage your community.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event , contests, matching gifts, and challenges. As important as donations are, the incredible value of #GivingTuesday is the opportunity to build relationships with your supporters and engage your community.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Take some time to send direct messages to these supporters from your Instagram account and encourage them to help grow your following on social media. Knowing that your live event is just the tipping point of engagement with your donors, let’s dive into more post-event tactics you can use to maximize the impact of every event you host.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2009

The contest asks clients, donors, volunteers, and board members to write reviews of these nonprofits. Reviews show the real human impact of a nonprofits and raise the visibility and credibility of those organizations,” says GreatNonprofits CEO Perla Ni. This will help highly-rated nonprofits attract more support and volunteers.”.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For one, it’s often largely supporter-initiated! Educate supporters about the basics of Facebook fundraising. Educate supporters about the basics of Facebook fundraising. Unlike other online fundraising efforts, Facebook fundraising is largely supporter-led. Consider pivoting your year-end events to Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising makes it easy for supporters to show their support of your mission with a quick donation. It is easy to post a link to a crowdfunding platform or to your website’s donation page, but letting supporters give directly through Facebook makes it even easier to capture impulse donors. I get that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

." » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I’m so honored by your support and really look forward to a chance at sharing all the work from this network of changemakers with those on this journey! Please support me by voting and commenting here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The goal of the project is to not simply host a contest, but "to help nonprofits think creatively about using technology to fulfill their missions, without having a fear of technology and by learning a new skill with an element of fun," says Susan Tenby, Director, Online Community and Social Media Team, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. He has built a supportive network of people who help him fuel his cause. Tags: sxsw.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. How do you keep supporters engaged in creating change over the long haul?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. " I agree.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Volunteers are passionate about your cause, donate their time and skills to make a positive impact. You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. They’re passionate about your cause and support you for a reason. Blankets Get creative and design your own blankets! Let’s explore some ideas!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Pull reports on your most active donors and supporters, and send them a special email a few days prior to #GivingTuesday. If you're doing a lot of listening on social media and online, you already know the people who are always mentioning you on Twitter, tagging you on Facebook, or posting about you in blogs and discussion forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. " and tells exactly why.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I’m so lost as to how we’re going to get out of the mess that is the equitable support of arts and culture in the age of billionaires. It might have been a moment in their days but it had a big impact on me. I suspect many of us have dropped a note on social, without much thought, that had an impact on others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. They want to connect.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So, how do you keep the momentum going and ensure your gala’s impact resonates beyond a single evening? Encourage attendee engagement by: Tagging guests: Increase reach and personalize the experience. Running social media contests: Ask attendees to share their favorite photos using a branded hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. . The fundraising campaign added some extra buzz, a sponsor, Ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs, willing to pay for any Twitter user who tweets out the support for the cause. Work with the charity/cause so you can leverage their most passionate supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. be more intentional.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. Set Your Data Free: How to Let OTHERS use YOUR data to make an impact. Online Community: Real World Lessons for Supporting Meaningful Constituent Engagement Online. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. Level: Beginner. Do You Want Fries With That?:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. While co-creative projects have the most lasting impact on participants, they tend to involve very small groups of participants and require a lot more work (and flexibility) on the part of the scientists who run them.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Tags: Uncategorized fundraising. Today they just announced that the W.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take. Exposure can be a motivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! Paul Lamb might.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants. You are encouraged to develop an emotional commitment to your choice of participant (not necessarily monogamously), learning more about them as they stay in the programme, and in live shows, to support your favourite with your vote each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

Skunkworks projects have two advantages: they allow institutions to develop really great ideas that would get squashed by standard channels and processes they allow institutions to take risks in a controlled way that does not impact the majority of staff, day-to-day functions, or revenue streams. Tags: professional development.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Technology was not something we considered as a strategic option or as something that could support our programmatic strategies; technology meant simply “IT” and was left to those with IT in their title. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action. Digital Paradigm. Digital Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Starting today and through the weekend, Twestival will rock on, with over 200 local Twestivals happening supporting tweetups to raise money for a designated local charity. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. What was most sexy?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We encourage our readers to review each and vote on the ones that they think can make the biggest impact. The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Molson reaches out to the community to find ways to spread the responsible drinking message, including supporting the TaxiGuy program and covering the cost of free public transit on New Year's eve. Stakeholders: Social good programs that are employee or stakeholder driven have more impact. Take for example contests.

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