CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Maybe your nonprofit hasn’t yet developed an online fundraising plan. Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That means nonprofits need to continue to be flexible and think on their feet. For this fundraising event, you’ll need to team up with a local paint and sip store like Pinot’s Palette or Painting with a Twist that’s willing to paint it forward with a percentage of the night’s proceeds going to your cause. Pumpkin Carving Contest.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2023

From pumpkin carving contests to haunted houses, there are so many ways to embrace this new season with fresh ideas. The following fall festival fundraising ideas and action steps are great for any nonprofit looking to warm the hearts of their supporters and make a meaningful impact for their beneficiaries.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. From standard digital donation forms to peer-to-peer fundraisers , there are a wide variety of ways that nonprofits can fundraise virtually. What are the different ways to fundraise online? Matching gifts drive.

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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. The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. Tags: contest crowdsourcing. Photo: Jim Harrison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. We are honored to have Laura Arrillaga-Andreeseen, Author of Giving 2.0 , write the foreword and it articulates from the donor perspective why nonprofits need to embrace measurement and learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Dupe: This is a team effort! It’s extremely helpful having not only the buy-in of our senior team, but the entire organization as well.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

“What kind of fundraisng event should I run for my nonprofit?”. Nonprofits are always looking for unique, creative, and effective fundraising events that will help them to stand out from the crowd. We’ve gathered 12 top-performing fundraising event ideas for nonprofits to inspire your next event. Walk or Run. Host A Gala.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know that fundraising events are a key part of your organization’s fundraising portfolio. You also know that sponsorship revenue is crucial to the event’s bottom line and your nonprofit’s return on investment. Because working together makes it a true win-win.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. List of nonprofit donation platforms. Website or event page so people can find it. Way to accept donations or money from the event. Click To Tweet.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

Is your nonprofit prepared to make the most of this opportunity? Peer-to-peer fundraising software solutions provide a platform that nonprofits can use to empower their supporters to collect donations on their behalf. They also enable your nonprofit to manage donor information and track fundraising progress using reporting tools.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. With the right text-to-give platform, your nonprofit will be able to quickly access any funds donated. Market Your Nonprofit with Text-to-Give. Use Text-to-Give in Fundraising Events.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

It was a difficult task, but the DoGooder Team have chosen the finalists- and now it’s up to the public to choose the winners! Visit the contest site today and cast your vote! This year’s winners will be announced March 14th, 2014 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington D.C.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

A food-related event usually entails a few individuals sitting around and eating a meal served on-site at the location. You could even make a film or documentary about the core purpose of your organization as a nonprofit. You may place individual gamers head-to-head and compete against one another or set up a points system with teams.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Scan sites like Change.org or Care2.com Listen to this podcast with their digital strategy team on how they make it work for them. Add a CTA to the top of your site. Adding an email call-to-action to the top of your site with a clear value proposition will make sure you are asking for emails on every page of the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

About Us | Overview | UX Test Kitchen - "The UX Test Kitchen is a nonprofit interactive agency providing free website and media development to other nonprofits. Kern+Lead, The Associated Press, and Harvard - in a collaborative effort to bring an agency-level presence to nonprofits." in cash for their organizations! ."

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Coming up with fresh fundraising ideas for nonprofits isn’t always easy. To make it easy, here’s a list of 75 fundraising ideas for nonprofits. Traditional Fundraising Ideas We’ve labeled the following 17 fundraising ideas for nonprofits as traditional because they’re staples when it comes to fundraising.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. The prize has to be significant, or seem significant to the target audience. (It

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

TechSoup’s Telework Team. TechSoup started putting it to use right away, particularly on our Online Community and Social Media Team. This team brings you our discussion forums. This team brings you our discussion forums. They are an actively teleworking team with members in many locales.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that almost 70% of nonprofits are planning to incorporate virtual elements into their events in some way, whether that’s with hybrid events, virtual-only events, or a combination of all of them? This is because this strategy involves recruiting passionate supporters to fundraise on your nonprofit organization’s behalf.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Gretchen Barry is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. When crowdfunding campaigns are run correctly, nonprofits can realize incredible returns versus traditional fundraising methods. Nonprofits that create campaigns and expect donors to miraculously start giving are setting themselves up for failure and disappointment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Why GoFundMe is a Fundraising Game-Changer: While the GoFundMe platform can be used to raise money for any cause – like funding a vacation – charitable causes are some of the most successful campaigns on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Christian Canter is doing this work as a staff person with an established nonprofit that is using social media. Mark Horvath is doing this work as “free agent.&# Says Mark, “I’m pushy, screaming loud to end poverty. Some times free agents go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Each day nonprofit organizations must calculate risks. You could argue that money going to a crowdfunding effort may be better allocated and spent if it went directly to a nonprofit organization who specializes in that particular cause. While a crowdfunding site only helps one person in need, nonprofits are prepared to help many.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Round three of #CelebrateAdobeCC — our three-month contest highlighting how nonprofits use Adobe products to spotlight their work and mission — is a wrap. Enjoy the video, and thanks for all the creativity shared by the nonprofits that participated in our contest. Please visit the site to view this video).

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. They just announced a program to give nonprofits some free “pro&# accounts. So what can nonprofits do with Flickr? You can see the Humane Society Seal Photo caption contest here. Why do this?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here. Journeys for Change is offering the chance to win a fully-paid nine-day tour of leading Social Entrepreneurs in India.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Not to worry, here are some tips that Avi Kaplan and I of Rad Campaign compiled to help nonprofits rock your online presence. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%).

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CauseVox

MAY 3, 2021

During the coronavirus pandemic, many nonprofits have needed to navigate their in-person fundraising events to the virtual space. One of the biggest challenges many nonprofits face is where to start with sponsors. If you’re hosting a social media contest, you could make a sponsor part of it as a co-host. Who do you reach out to?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Measuring Input. Measuring Input can be a little more nebulous.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Jeremy Ames who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Environments Division, will speak about their Radon Video Contest -- the first video contest run by the federal government. Ames will offer advice on meeting the challenges of using a video sharing site within a government agency in support of public communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations. Social media specific webinars.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world. To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the shift to virtual fundraising and engagement over the past several months, technology is more important than ever before for the nonprofit sector. By now, it’s clear that the right tools to help you generate and use data in smarter ways will be key to ensuring resiliency for your nonprofit going forward. Live-streaming tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2016

The winner is then able to claim the gym for their team (think of this as like virtual “Capture-the-Flag”). Recently, I sat down with Matthew Gibson, curator of natural history at the Charleston Museum , to find out how he and his team organized the Museum’s first Pokémon Go event. Our main activity was the photo contest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

For the past couple months, I've been working with the Social Actions team on their site redesign, which launched today! Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. They'll also be launching a web application development contest, Change the Web 2009 , in January.

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