NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Many summer peer-to-peer fundraising events will be opening registration in the upcoming months (hopefully, yours included). Sending one-size-fits-all event update isn’t going to cut it anymore. Register Now !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Choose people that have different understandings and relationships with your (new) organization and whose influence with their peer group is notable. This group should be given ultimate decision-making authority and will be responsible for reporting to your Board of Directors. Below is a sampling of important questions to ask.

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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 asked staff to give 15 minutes of their time to handwrite a card and prepared them with ready-made assets, stationery, stamps, and sample scripts.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 10, 2022

When members trust your industry knowledge, they’ll choose to stay connected in association conferences, networking events, and training opportunities. . Hearing from a diverse group of voices can strengthen your brand credibility, proving attractive to members and non-members alike. . Speak at events and conferences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. While many of these fundraising event staples are great, such as fancy galas and golf tournaments, circumstances aren’t always ideal for in-person gatherings. Here are a few ideas about how to make virtual/hybrid versions of your favorite in-person events.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this library, you’ll find: Essential DEAI Reading for Nonprofits Sample Policies, Templates, and Tools Webinars on Nonprofit Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Podcasts Peer Groups for People of Color in the Nonprofit Sector Agencies Focusing on DEAI Additional Curated Lists and Resources For Event Organizers Speaker Directory Those resources cover (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

These are just some examples of the most public donations, but it just a sample of the donations being made by those who have generated a considerable amount of wealth in this space. Founded by a group of early cryptocurrency users, BlockShop DC is a nonprofit serving as a blockchain incubator and event space in Washington DC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Sample Google Drive Structure Available for Download. A cloud service allows your board members and committees to conveniently work together on documents such as press releases, communication materials, or event planning without meeting in person or worrying about version control. 3) Conserve Resources. FULL BIO ].

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Venmo’s largest user age group is in the 25-34 range, so this addition provides another way for nonprofits to connect with a more digitally-savvy audience. Logica Research conducted an online survey averaged 10 minutes among a sample of 4,306 PayPal user respondents from four countries (U.S., typical checkout). 2 52% of U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

I’m so excited about these new groups! Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Net Tuesdays are monthly events, organized by local volunteers in over 30 cities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). You’ll want to create a Twitter hashtag for the event and make sure it isn’t already being used.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

For example, many organizations have had to shift their resources and budgets to create engaging virtual events and online resources for their constituents, audience research is adapting its modes and methods to better understand the behaviors and needs of new and changing audiences. Diverse research samples result in more inclusive outcomes.

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Kindful

JANUARY 5, 2022

To create a large enough sample size for the data set, we looked at the IRS Form 990s of 7,171 U.S. These three nonprofit types are: Performing Arts Companies, Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events, and Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Nonprofits with a typical spend in this group include: .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

If you aren’t a hacker but still want an in-depth experience, join North Carolina’s Tech4Good group for their annual conference June 6–7 or visit lovely Vancouver, Canada for their NetSquared Camp unconference on June 1. Find your closest NetSquared group and join the conversation today! Event Reports.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

These days, peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and events take many forms: virtual runs/walks/rides , tribute/memorial campaigns, virtual drives. But no matter what types of peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns or events you’re running, they all require one key thing to be successful: participants. Sample “Registration Now Open” email.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

If you are an organization or group that wants to catalyze and support community-generated projects or you are someone that wants to get involved, I hope this is a format you can take and run with. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

But most of all, within this e-book resides the wisdom of a group of individuals who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place by using their talents to make a real difference. by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Expanding Beyond the Fundraising Event.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Game: To play the game with your organization, team or community group, use the documents below to share the grid and other pages to print and cut out the playing cards. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward. Resource links: [link].

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Greater Giving

JUNE 21, 2023

In our Q1 survey 70% of nonprofits reported hosting between 2-5 events a year. Let’s explore some unique and inspiring ways for nonprofit professionals to soar to new heights with these summer fundraising event ideas. Promote the event through social media, local press, and your nonprofit’s network.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Offer prizes for winning participants to add a little competitive spirit to the event. Offer tickets for your community to come watch the event and bring in a judging panel to determine the prize winners. You can also bid off the best looks to boost your funds from the event. Pub quiz Everyone loves a bit of trivia!

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Every organization (and by that I mean the dedicated staff) that runs some version of a peer-to-peer fundraising event wants to help their participants be better fundraisers. Make sure your event is all about your cause.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

What age group should you target? This age group often has more disposable income and is more inclined to include charitable giving in their financial plans. Engage their family members and loved ones in your organization’s activities, events, and communication. Provide clear instructions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

However, nonprofits are guided by a mission- like providing education in under-served areas, supporting research to find cures to diseases, creating community among a specific group of people, and more. Some focus primarily on traditional fundraising like monthly gifts, planned giving, online fundraising, and special events like galas.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? individual giving, major gifts, grants, events, etc.)? Are you comfortable with planning and executing fundraising events? tabling at events, community presentations, etc.)? What is your position on the board?

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Whether you’re creating a new plan or adapting an existing one to address new trends and unprecedented events – a common occurrence in recent years – it’s important to remember that fundraising plans are dynamic. I’m referring to individual donations , corporate partnerships , events , grants , and online campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

On Facebook , as a volunteer you will need to consider the options of using your personal profile, creating a page, or starting a group. On LinkedIn , consider creating or using the Subgroups functionality so that you could manage a group of volunteers or peers in a subgroup within the organization’s main group.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

When it does arrive, it’s important that it be focused and not diluted by overlapping messages about unrelated events or other topics. Doing so entails sending two versions of an email, Sample A and Sample B, to two randomly selected groups of recipients prior to the main event.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Whether it’s your first fundraising event, or tenth, helping supporters be great peer-to-peer fundraisers is always on the mind of successful event fundraising organizations. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event. 2) Educate. 3) Involve.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Who: Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. Attendees will divide into break-out groups to design the online campaign. The groups will use both community organizing principles and social media tools to create an online social media campaign. When: 1:30 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. When it comes to campaigning on facebook, the real question is page vs group. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a type of crowdfunding when you, a nonprofit, invite your supporters to set up personal fundraisers connected to an event or campaign on your nonprofit’s behalf. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices. Make it as easy as possible for your supporters. Encourage the power of the share.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Remember to visit the Community Voices group to connect with the rest of the conversations going on there.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Remember to visit the Community Voices group to connect with the rest of the conversations going on there.

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Classy

MAY 7, 2021

This is a guest post written by event planner Alexa Steevens on the Classy events team. The event was created to encourage collaboration as a space for meaningful connections where nonprofits can gain insights, strategies, and inspiration to accelerate and maximize their organizations’ impact. Virtual events.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These two groups are important, but you already know how to find them, so let’s set them aside for a bit and focus on the third group: prospective mid-level donors. In our work with Oxfam America’s mid-level program, we expanded their prospect pool from two existing modeled audiences to six additional prospect groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Step 1: Identify all the groups within your community. To start mapping the community we need to first identify which groups are within it. Maybe you work with schools so you have segments for teachers, administrators, parents, students, and then groups outside of the school.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Affinity and Engagement : Donors who actively engage with your organization–the ones that attend events, volunteer, or serve on committees or boards–are often more receptive to discussions about planned giving. Engage with them regularly through personalized communications, invitations to events, or one-on-one meetings.

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