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5 Creative Angles to Consider for Your Next Fundraising Campaign

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Below, we’ve highlighted five creative angles to consider for your next fundraising campaign, complete with five nonprofit examples to show how these ideas can be brought to life. . Livestrong has applied this approach to their Solution Grants Program, which focuses on funding solutions that solve everyday cancer problems.

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An Innovative Approach to Social Problems: Caravan Studios

Tech Soup

Sometimes extraordinary things can happen when we look at problems from a new point of view. Caravan Studios drew in local nonprofits with an invitation for snacks and some serious brainstorming — to hear the problems that only those people deeply involved knew about because they ran into these obstacles daily.

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5 Ways to Engage Donors on National Nonprofit Day

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Explain how you will address the problem with donor support . If you’re hosting an event for National Nonprofit Day, invite virtual volunteers to spread the word on social media or judge a live contest. . State the core issue you want to address in your campaign . Include relevant visuals or high-quality graphics .

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

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Small, solvable problems make excellent campaigns for Facebook fundraising! Be direct and specific, and focus on how the donor’s gift will impact a life. This strategy focuses on a small solvable problem that’s well defined and invites people to make an impact by giving just five dollars. Choose the right message.

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The 10 Necessary Steps Before Launching Your Fundraising Plan

NonProfit Hub

We all think that more resources will help us solve our organization’s problems and allow us help more but, in my opinion, there are ten things that need to be put in place first before you even think of adding one more cent to your budget if long-term scalable success is part of your vision for your organization.

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GSA Shows Some Creativity with Challenge.gov

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There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. In the past, the government might have hired and managed people to try to find solutions the these problems.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers.

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