Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you’re worried about getting your donors to participate in your fundraisers, come up with fun, creative ideas that will get your supporters excited enough to spread the word to their friends and family. Warm your ovens up or get your paints and glitter ready for a fun cookie or ornament decorating party. Check out B.I.G.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

You may have attended your local Tech Club , as an attendee, speaker, or organizer. NTEN 501 Tech Clubs are informal, local groups that meet regularly in many cities. These meetings allow people interested in nonprofit technology to meet local colleagues, develop professional support networks, and talk shop in a relaxed setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

After spending a year facilitating a peer learning community of Knight Foundation grantees hosting giving days, one of the most factors for success for local no nonprofits participating is having about 6-9 months timeframe to develop a plan. NetworkforGood to the rescue! A unifying theme creates excitement and engagement.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

We may even have some fun in store for you! Fork over your lunch money to a local Austin organization and Convio will match your donation! We hope we're easy to find: we will be using the Beacon Lounge as our go-to, chill-out, home-base spot throughout the conference. And, yes, there will be prizes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Many of our local meetup groups are also doing special events this month. You might also listen to our musical appreciation. And stay tuned for videos and more fun content coming at you this week. Kate, enjoy your year-long pass to the Foundation Center database.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Many of our local meetup groups are also doing special events this month. You might also listen to our musical appreciation. And stay tuned for videos and more fun content coming at you this week. Kate, enjoy your year-long pass to the Foundation Center database!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. They may be able to work with local stores or boutiques that act as sponsors and also get to show off their collections.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Send Donors A Fun At-home Activity. Consider providing your donors with a fun at-home activity that relates to your mission that they can do in their free time. Whether it’s special campaign t-shirts or another fun product, this is a significant way to increase your organization’s visibility. Be as creative as possible!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2020

As a general trend over the past several years, public schools have seen repeated budget cuts at the federal, state and local levels. Whether it is a fun run, read-a-thon, or another event, recruiting volunteers can make the day go by smoothly. For example, you may choose to host a family fun day full of games, snacks, music, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

Her newest project is organizing Chez Panisse Foundation's Eating for Education , a grassroots effort to create national awareness about school kitchen/garden programs. She's known for the Pop-Up General Store , Tartine Afterhours dinners , Home Ec Cooking Classes , and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This translates into thousands of organizations with similar names and missions competing for advocacy, donor, and foundation support. This happy hour is an opportunity for 501 Tech Club organizers—you know who you are—to get together and swap ideas, stories about your local meetups, and jokes. Did we mention fun?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. My dad was a conductor and composer, my mom his accompanist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. For example, our music, our movies.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Your online donation form is the foundation of your digital fundraising strategy. Online Concert: Chances are your donors are missing live music right about now. Recruit a local band or performer to donate a live-streamed performance your donors can enjoy from the comfort of their couches. Online Donation Page. About the Author.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

I was just reading in Utne Reader about Art Bars, a chocolate bar created by Ithaca Fine Chocolates (I am always trying to find a way to have fun and do good with chocolate!). Ithaca Fine Chocolates is the first Fair Trade Certified chocolate company in the United States, the bars are 100% organic and 10% of the profits support art education.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

The 2dance2dream program is designed for children with special needs to creatively express themselves through movement and music. Stacey and three volunteers provide fun, safe, and specialized care for the children, and a break for their busy parents. In late 2014, Holloway was ready to help another local nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

Maybe it was to look for a job, or buy a futon, or find a "missed connection", but did you know that there is a Craigslist Foundation ? The first is Saturday, August 18th at UC Berkeley , and the second is on Saturday, September 15th at the Brookyn Academy of Music. The Foundation also puts on smaller educational events.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. To support your community, you first need a strong financial foundation. Encourage kids to bring a friend along to join in on the fun, all while raising money for your youth group. Team up with local businesses.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

Her husband made fun of her. Yet, ironically, no tornados appeared, and while the wind was wicked – it was the perfect night for the music of her new album. And away with her brain went all the years of evidence that a certain supporter had played an integral role in getting grant funding from a couple of key local foundations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

For their friends and family, she and her husband make a homemade CD of music each year. She and her husband and their local community also "adopted" a village in Africa of approximately 3,600 people. The money they donated through a friend's foundation will provide 5 new wells and pumps this year.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. JEANETTE: And if you’re active on social media, you want something that’s fun to share, too. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. You have VIP’s, media and everyday influencers. True celebrities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

Kellogg Foundation. When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast. They were sharing food and bartering.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 24th Annual Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. We actually do a short camp in the winter as well.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you depend on a foundation with whom you have a long-standing relationship, what happens when the grants manager—your primary contact—retires and the Trustees decide to support another cause?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

They might go from seeing a poster about your organization at their favorite local coffee shop to scrolling through your organization’s website. Users create and share short videos overlaid with music and audio. Grants are large donations provided to nonprofits from foundations, corporations, or government agencies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

As part of its Be Fearless initiative, the Case Foundation has chosen the 20 winners of Finding Fearless —a nationwide campaign to recognize, reward and inspire fearless changemakers. Twitter: @SwipesHQ ) Full disclosure: Much of the text of this post comes from a press release I received from the Case Foundation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Make it personal, maybe you just saw them in the gym, make a fun note about that, I mean, or around town, or wherever it might be. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. So that was really fun to see. Or they were in the paper. Steven: I love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 31, 2022

No live music or DJ. Contact the organizer of every local fair, festival, farmer’s market, or other event to see if your organization can set up a table. Set up a fun and engaging table. Find a place where they already hang out, like a local brewery and plan a fast event there. The host makes the Ask.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s always a fun handoff, right? And the very foundation of philanthropic psychology is that it explores how we can love people in the same way that we love ourselves. We can have the prettiest of things, of the prettiest music. So I’m going to stop sharing and let you take it away. Here we go.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Tell us how the weather is, what your organization does, anything fun you want to tell us. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. But you should document that organizational basic foundation structure for your database. So don’t be shy. This is a true story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

VivaVideo Pro is a powerful video editor that enables easy trimming and merging of video clips and photos into video stories that can be accentuated with music, stickers, filters, and subtitles. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language.

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