AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Will your gamification highlight your event sponsors? Get exhibitors and sponsors involved in your prizes. Share that information on social media as well.

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NetWits

JUNE 2, 2011

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. Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey. Priority check-in at the event. Preferred parking spot.

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Game Fundraising Ipod Virginia 238

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

Share Your #npfail story by April 30th and you will have a chance to win a Microsoft Surface or other schwag from the Case Foundation that is sponsoring the contest. They are also doing a sector wide survey on failure and innovation ). Now you have some practical techniques for learning from failure and a reward!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Be careful with these types of contests as the motivation behind joining the email list may not be as aligned with the organization, and can lead to lower donation conversions as well as higher unsubscribes. Paid sponsored petition campaign. Send a survey. Forward to a friend. Online Course. Online Fundraising Essentials.

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Ideas Donor Work Online 98

Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%). Keep the momentum going and host a surprise giveaway across social media with your sponsor by encouraging your community to engage in photo contests.

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Virtual Donor Fundraising Retention 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

Share Your #npfail story by April 30th and you will have a chance to win a Microsoft Surface or other schwag from the Case Foundation that is sponsoring the contest. They are also doing a sector wide survey on failure and innovation ).

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NTC Action Reflection Contest 113

NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

A recent survey of six national nonprofits found multi-year team captains raise two to three times more than new team captains and retain about 86 percent of their prior year’s revenue. Create team-specific communications and contests. Though a company may not be able to sponsor your event, they may be able to provide a team.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

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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Charity Challenge Facebook Contest 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter. According to our survey, 41 percent of respondents said they “like” GiveMN or their favorite nonprofit or school on Facebook.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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Contest Mind Fundraising Ipod 183

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Every year, GrantStation runs a contest to uncover some of the best proposals that have been written. This Storymakers 2017 post is sponsored by GrantStation. A short vignette, such as this, will grab the reviewers' attention and encourage them to learn more about the issue. Some Winning Stories. Our state reports 24.5

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Pro tip: Get as many of your sponsors involved as possible, whether that means donating items or providing a venue for the day of. To find this partner, ask your board members for recommendations or reach out to some of your regular sponsors. This is also a great time to acquire sponsors and seek auction items.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful! Get help designing an API.

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Data API Mashup Contest 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are some post-gala strategies to spark engagement : Relive the Memories, Fuel Excitement: Photo & Video Power Unleash the Photo Power: Tag, Share, & Contest Your Way to Engagement Capture the night’s essence through captivating photos and videos. Survey Says… Gala Engagement!

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Pre-event surveys and research. Find out what your supporters want to see from your virtual engagement opportunities by sending pre-event surveys. Post-event surveys and follow-ups. And, be sure to thank all supporters and sponsors for their participation. Online contests or challenges.

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Digital Communication Tips Virtual 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. How will these trends impact nptech? Marnie Webb also points to this post.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You can do this by incorporating the following elements into your event planning process: Pre-event surveys and research. Find out what your supporters want to see from your virtual engagement opportunities by sending pre-event surveys. Post-event surveys and follow-ups. Online contests or challenges.

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Digital Communication Tips Virtual 52

Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Reach out to potential sponsors. You can use LinkedIn as a starting point for finding corporate sponsors , too. If you’re trying to decide what merchandise you should sell, try surveying your supporters and find out what they want to buy, like t-shirts, water bottles, or stickers. Reach out to potential sponsors.

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Donation Tips Donor Sponsor 52

Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Contest. Do survey results from Giving Tuesday donors yield the same level of allegiance to your organization? In addition to soliciting gifts, why not take the day to recognize those who support your mission, like donors, volunteers, sponsors, grantees and vendors? Find out why by sending them a survey.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Competition: This is an event where you gather participants to compete against each other in some sort of contest. It could be a charity 5k, a pie-eating contest, or a battle of the bands. Step 7: Secure Event Sponsors and/or In-Kind Donations Most nonprofit events serve as fundraisers. Take the Assessment!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

After this next phase of development is over in February – monthly contests – we’ll take a break from development for a second to focus more on the promotion of the project. What were you most surprised about with the process and adoption – what were you least surprised about? What’s on the list for next developments?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Here, I survey a few of the more interesting online approaches I've encountered. There are dozens of pro-reform petitions circulating including this Change.org petition and this AARP-sponsored petition hosted by Care2. In this case, a site is running a contest to caption this poster opposing Obama's plan. health reform.

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