AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Additionally, funds could be raised through an online auction within the gala, and fundraising is tracked with a virtual fundraising thermometer. Continue to connect with your attendees by sharing guest photos or greeting each guest by name during the event. Online Voting Contest. Festive Fundraising Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Please summarize your ROI.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Look for virtual auction software with the following features: Item procurement tracking. As you begin the item procurement process, it’s vital that your team maintains an organized list that tracks each item’s status. Being able to accept, process, and track bids in real time is essential for success with any auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The photo above a recent NTC. According to my colleague and former NTEN board member, Steve MacLauglin from Blackbaud, Giving Tuesday, now in its 7th year (great origin story here ), is on track to raise more in 2018. Can you spot me? I’m the fourth one from the right.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Add a great default photo to fundraising pages. Your photo may inspire others to donate. Once imported, fundraisers can keep track of which contacts who have donated, not opened the email , forwarded the email, etc. Provide samples of everything.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To make the registration and payment process seamless, set up an online fundraising page on CauseVox to track who’s signed up. Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest. You can use no-cost platforms like ESPN or NFL to track player performance in real-time and help run your fundraiser. Football Tailgate Party.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Tell the story with photos or a video. Photos do not need to be professionally shot and the video does not need to be professionally filmed and edited. Even if you only have the donor’s name and not their email address, you should track them in your database in case they make another donation through another channel.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. You can easily track your favorite Twitter friends by creating tiles for them on the Windows 8 Start screen. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. File Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Give them a chance to inspire those women by supporting your cause — you can even showcase photos of the women in your supporters’ lives on social media for a certain donation tier or send out a special IWD card to the women your supporters are donating for. Track Relay Race. Fantasy Baseball pool. Tis another fantasy season!

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Additionally, funds could be raised through an online auction within the gala, and fundraising is tracked with a virtual fundraising thermometer. Continue to connect with your attendees by sharing guest photos or greeting each guest by name during the event. Online Voting Contest. Festive Fundraising Challenge.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. The other big news in digital storytelling apps is that Instagram now supports videos in addition to photos. Have you ever gone through the trouble of tracking down photos from a fundraiser or event?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Individuals reflected on why they gave to a certain nonprofit organization and then shared these personal stories in a contest form on the #GivingTuesday website. Project organizers analyzed the results from the 2015 and 2016 contests to find what helped them succeed and get more votes in 2017. A story length of only 500-600 words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The photo above is from last year’s NTC. According to my colleague and former NTEN board member, Steve MacLauglin from Blackbaud, Giving Tuesday, now in its sixth year (great origin story here ), is on track to raise more this year, but the trend of donation distribution is skewing towards smaller and mid-size organizations, like NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. You track metrics while you're on the treadmill (without falling off). You can write fundraising email copy in your sleep and hand code your e-appeal while making breakfast and watering your plants. You are fundraising email campaign ninjas!

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Charge a few dollars for pictures with good ol’ Saint Nick to add to the family photo album that will go toward your organization’s mission. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Put your supporters’ creative cookie construction skills to the test with a gingerbread house decorating contest. Cookie or ornament decorating party.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

They also enable your nonprofit to manage donor information and track fundraising progress using reporting tools. These platforms typically include tools to allow supporters to create customized donation pages, set personal fundraising goals, and share the pages on social media.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Track completion times virtually by having players download the geocaching app. Have each participant run the 5K on their own using their neighborhood as the track. For each of these, you’ll need proof with some sort of distance tracking device. Don’t forget to track distance with a dedicated device or mobile app!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. 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. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2017

Check out these ideas for tips on how to make donating to your organization more appealing: Donate a Photo. Johnson & Johnson’s Donate a Photo app is an easy way to browse other’s pictures and post your own, in a similar method to sharing pictures on Facebook or Instagram. Each picture donates $1 to the charity of your choice.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Contestants lasted as long as 70 hours before MrBeast decided to end the competition himself! Fully integrate your system with industry-leading CRMs to record and track donor engagements.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. and pop.url for tracking retweets (Check out Laura Lee Dooley’s URL shortener report!). new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. test and teweak.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Record key online engagement on a spreadsheet so you can track what compels your community to engage with you online.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Incorporate compelling visuals, such as event photos or promotional graphics, to capture attention. Implement a system for tracking and analyzing ticket sales data: Utilize ticketing software or tools to monitor sales progress. Train volunteers or staff members to handle these transactions efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Pick the right hard data points I know from experience what the most important metrics are to track for different types of projects. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

CauseVox also recently introduced our new activity metric , which allows participants to track their participation, whether that’s miles walked or laps swam. There are tons of variations on this theme, but they all come down to the same concept: get your supporters involved in a game or contest and give them extra boosts based on fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. My kids pose for photos in t-shirts (see above), empty their piggy banks, contribute clothing or other types of drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. I'll be writing a summary for the post. Please respond by November 24th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. Spent $50 for a promoted post which got over 10,000 views to promote the July 3rd event, but I did not set up a way to track whether the promoted post helped boost participation in the online memorial event.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. Social Media. social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Photo by M. As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. Schenekenberg.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Add a great default photo to fundraising pages. Your photo may inspire others to donate. Once imported, fundraisers can keep track of which contacts who have donated, not opened the email , forwarded the email, etc. Provide samples of everything.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It’s also much easier to track the hammer price, as it’s written down by the bidder. For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2021

But if your local high school has a track, you can stage all kinds of events, including a Trike-a-Thon, if a lot of your supporters have preschoolers. Apple Pie Contest : With shows like The Great British Baking Show being so popular, you can put your supporters to the test to see who’s the best baker. Play the long game.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

This means companies can track their return on investment with an array of measurement tools and metrics available online, and ultimately improve their conversion rate and quality of leads over time. Social media contests. Types of Online Fundraising Events. Almost anything goes when it comes to this type of fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view.

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