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5 Tips for Planning A Fundraising Campaign Around a Holiday

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From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards. Influencers: Within your supporter pool, your nonprofit likely has access to a few individuals with a considerable amount of social capital.

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6 Ways to Create Buzz Around Your Charity Golf Tournament

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Partner with local influencers and celebrities. Influencer marketing can be a valuable tool to spread awareness about your nonprofit and your event to new audiences who otherwise might not have known about it. Collaborating with influencers is growing in popularity due to each creator’s broad reach. Tap into your networks.

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How to Build a Social Media Following: Top Secrets Revealed

Nonprofits Source

The content you post should be crafted with your platform and audience in mind. This will give others the chance to join the conversation and meet like-minded supporters. Interactive content like challenges, contests, polls, and filters offers a different way for supporters to get to know your organization’s personality.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. The solicitation can happen by the staff or board chair.

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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

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Just like games, contests are virtual event ideas that can get people talking. Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Mindfulness Activities.

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Zerofootprint: A Cool Approach to Sustainability

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Zerofootprint shows what you can do with real data to influence meaningful social change. What blew my mind in the demonstration was how the Zerofootprint team took a metro area’s schools, and mashed the energy consumption data together with student census data to demonstrate how much the energy costs by dollar per student per year.

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Pepsi Refresh Project: An Insider's View - Guest Post by Bonin Bough

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. They are not paid for their efforts and they will not have any influence on the balloting or awarding of grants.

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