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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Community foundations sponsor many donor-advised funds (DAFs) which are like mini-foundations but they are not public. Approach area businesses to donate items to an online or offline silent or live auction. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. You would have to run the auction, of course.

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8 Online Social Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This can lead to a new network of donors, volunteers, fundraisers, grantors, and even corporate sponsors. Move offline activities online. Adding incentives like sweepstakes and contests help to engage zero dollar fundraisers, and create more fun and competition for everyone. Promotions. Challenges.

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Turning Fundraising into a Game: Groupon, Zynga and Care2 do it, Why Don’t You?

NetWits

The UGA Relay for Life Chapter offered additional contests the week of the event, with prizes ranging from a Smartphone to airline tickets. Sponsor-donated items like bike tune-ups, massages and gift cards. Now, we understand that not everyone has a big budget for this type of stuff. Priority check-in at the event.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This 6-page guide laid out specific steps for using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as advice for connecting offline events and media opportunities offered during Give to the Max Day. Youthprise, a youth-serving nonprofit and grantmaking organization put up $14,000 in prize grants for the contest.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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10 Tips for Selling (More) Fundraiser Tickets

Neon CRM

Use Old School Marketing Channels to Stand Out This is the flip side of focusing all your event marketing efforts on digital channels: If you can break through with people in an offline setting, your message will really stand apart. And in order to do that, you’re going to have to go old school.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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