Nonprofits Source

JULY 25, 2023

This way, ambassadors can confidently take on their roles and spotlight your cause. Create Ambassador Contests One of the main reasons ambassador fundraising and marketing is so successful is the element of competition. But there are plenty of other ways to implement an ambassador contest. Let’s begin.

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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. Every detail, from selecting the perfect venue and crafting engaging activities to coordinating volunteers and securing sponsors plays a crucial role in creating a seamless and unforgettable experience.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New in her role, with two new staff persons reporting to her and an already-packed end-of-year schedule—including appeals, a holiday catalog, events, and concerts—Melissa felt torn. She made it fun with decorations and a staff photo contest. It was GivingTuesday inviting her to be a part of GivingTuesday’s inaugural UK launch.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

This makes it easy for potential volunteers to learn about opportunities and express their interest in specific roles. To get started, identify some prizes that would be appealing to your target audience and then promote the contest through social media, flyers, and word-of-mouth. Get Creative in your volunteer posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Determine what the influencer’s role will be. Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. It’s a lot easier to source influencers you already know than to build relationships from scratch. This, in turn, will foster a sense of community and increase your event’s visibility.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Determine what the influencer’s role will be. Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. It’s a lot easier to source influencers you already know than to build relationships from scratch. This, in turn, will foster a sense of community and increase your event’s visibility.

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Marketing Strategy Influence Social Media 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Instead of finding a job that fits a person’s gift, companies are quick to fire people rather than find the right role. Your people are suffering.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Instead of finding a job that fits a person’s gift, companies are quick to fire people rather than find the right role. Your people are suffering.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Instead of finding a job that fits a person’s gift, companies are quick to fire people rather than find the right role. Your people are suffering.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Instead of finding a job that fits a person’s gift, companies are quick to fire people rather than find the right role. Your people are suffering.

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Gift Culture Companies Conversation 52

The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Why Staying Social and Going Mobile Can Make All the Difference Social media and mobile platforms play a critical role in successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. Without addressing these challenges, nonprofits miss out on realizing the full potential of P2P campaigns.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Crafting a Compelling Visual Identity within Your Event Branding Visual elements play a significant role in event branding. PRO TIP: Create a #hashtag Challenge Launch a photo contest with a branded hashtag related to your event. They serve as visual cues that donors associate with your cause.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

I tried ChatGPT and can tell you it writes wonderful haikus, crafted a pretty decent Valentine’s Day message for my sweetheart, and correctly predicted many of the matchups in my colleagues’ Holiday Movie bracket contest. With that in mind, I began thinking about how AI might start playing a role in our collective grantmaking.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Plus, when you use software to manage volunteer roles, your supporters will have an even more pleasant experience donating their time and efforts to your cause. To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. It’ll give local artists a chance to show off their skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

What role could digital medium-specific competitions or contests play in increasing demand? We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. Could funders prioritize storytelling as a reporting and evaluation mechanism?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Instead of finding a job that fits a person’s gift, companies are quick to fire people rather than find the right role. Your people are suffering.

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Companies Gift Culture Conversation 52

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ambassador fundraising mobilizes your loyal supporters to conduct their own personal fundraising in the form of contests, challenges, campaigns, and more for your event. Your ambassadors can play a significant role in the success of your event, so clearly lay out goals they can work to achieve.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

You can incorporate pictures of your volunteers and their roles, and even team pictures for your volunteers to keep and look back on! You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. Or, you can give flower seeds according to the role of your volunteers.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

To generate excitement for your virtual audience, consider pre-event contests, social media competitions, watch party gift boxes, and other pre-event activities as a way to get your virtual audience motivated. Team members and volunteers play a crucial role in producing a successful hybrid event.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Make a plan and assign roles – With your goal in mind, write out a plan for how you will get there. Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event, contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Is there a project you want to get funded?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Make a plan and assign roles – With your goal in mind, write out a plan for how you will get there. Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event , contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Is there a project you want to get funded?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

A cooking contest or bake-off might attract local foodies and aspiring chefs to share their best dishes. Her vast nonprofit experience includes roles in marketing, fundraising, and direct programming. An adults-only or family-themed cooking or baking experience with a local restaurant or chef.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

He is a recovering political junkie who has served on more than a dozen political campaigns and, as far as he knows, he is the only two-time winner of the USA Today online haiku contest. In her role Beverly leads the new media team who tweets on @ marchofdimes and blogs on the News Moms Need and Nacersano blog. He loves bacon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

They have designed and implemented a good on-boarding experience for new members, helped codify and define board roles and tasks, and we even have do an annual assessment of our performance that gives us specific metrics on how we’re doing as a board. How is your organization leveraging Giving Tuesday? Is your board participating?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Two recent reports share data about the actual role celebrity connection plays in nonprofit fundraising and both say the same thing: forget celebrities. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. Getting Over Celebrities. The data says we should move on.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. Offer to be a role-play participant to demonstrate fundraising to the board. Consider matching board members with a more experienced board buddy or even creating a board team to hit a collective goal instead of individual goals. Canvas door-to-door.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings." " DoGooderTV Contest 2009 - Vote for your favorite Nonprofit videos - DoGooderTV's 2nd Nonprofit Video Awards have seen almost 400 submissions from 175 organizations and causes!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 28, 2015

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Role of Nonprofits. Create team-specific communications and contests. It’s a chance to see everyone and perhaps meet new people. For those job-searching, teams may provide new networking opportunities. Nonprofits need to do their part, though, to make teams fun. Encourage teams to setup tents at your event.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. I have also found that giving people specific roles is successful – empowering for them. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Severn spearheaded a new marketing initiative for the San Francisco Ballet that used social media to grow audiences through a series of contests. Using Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook, and WordPress, she cross-promoted The Nutcracker by offering special seats to contest winners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Leadership Chapter Contest Analysis 44