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Chase Giving Contest: Winners Announced Amidst Yet More Controversy

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Less than two hours ago, Chase Community Giving made the much anticipated announcement of the lucky winner of $1 million dollars and five finalists each receiving $100,000 on its contest Fan Page. It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea. and Sdfj Dfsjlfkddjf. Change.org reported.

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What Lessons Will Pepsi Learn About Crowdsourcing for Social Good from Chase Bank Contest Fail?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

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5 Creative Angles to Consider for Your Next Fundraising Campaign

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Livestrong has applied this approach to their Solution Grants Program, which focuses on funding solutions that solve everyday cancer problems. Host a Contest With Multiple Ways to Participate. If you registered for the dog surf contest, a fundraising page was automatically created for you. times greater than ticketed events. .

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon. Have your students team up with their friends and go head-to-head for some friendly competition. Student art show. Online tutoring.

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Global Health Essay Contest -- Please Share

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" We are looking for fresh, innovative approaches to global health problems. This essay contest is one way we're expanding the conversation to include the ideas and opinions of people who are passionate about global health issues. I hope you'll forward this opportunity along to students, friends and colleagues. .

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

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Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Small, solvable problems make excellent campaigns for Facebook fundraising! This strategy focuses on a small solvable problem that’s well defined and invites people to make an impact by giving just five dollars. Host polls and contests to engage your audience.

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Razoo's Speedgranting and Change Your World Contest

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To celebrate their beta launch, they are offering a $10,000 Change Your World Contest Prize to the social change group or organization (this includes non-profits, student groups, volunteer networks, fundraising groups, or other networks organized around social issues) that starts a group on Razoo, and recruits at least 100 members by September 15th.

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