Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

And while there’s nothing wrong with your standard fundraiser, sometimes it’s fun to do something a bit different. Athens Rotary Club is holding a plunge event in February and encouraging costumes, teams, and all kinds of fun for their plunge. Golf tournaments are a great deal of fun for participants. Polar Plunge.

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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. Pictures with Santa. For some families, pictures with Santa Claus are a yearly tradition. Check out B.I.G.

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Whole Whale

JULY 18, 2022

The challenge when writing a fundraising email is to not only avoid this filter, but actually make it fun or interesting. Adding a relevant image (or even just a photo of yourself!) So that is the big picture, now let’s get into the nitty gritty. Which foundations have supported the org? Use compelling images.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Have your supporters send pictures of their causey ink. Actually, please do this and send us a picture. Invite your supporters to share their cutest feline photos. Create bulk tatoos and consider distribution partners.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Joseph’s had a giving day in 2019 but quickly realized that in order to engage both of their campuses and a wide network of alumni they needed to activate a campaign that had a foundation in peer-to-peer fundraising in order to fully capture the broader network available to them. Do they need photos and logos? Make it fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Photo by Glenn Hirsch. The started with some big picture frames. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Diana as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation which has included the Network of Networked Funders. Diana shared some of her insights about networked leadership and keys for successful scaling.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time to take a good look at your plans for the final months of the year and find a fun, unique fall fundraiser that will make you and your donors feel comfortable and supported. For fall, offer picture options that include themed-subject matter like pumpkins or the changing of the leaves. Autumn Paint & Sip Night.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

You might even offer fun prizes to your top peer-to-peer participants like getting to dunk the youth pastor! Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition! For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Over 1,300 #bigkidsgive photos were shared on social media, including celebrity posts from NBA star Blake Griffin and B.J. Each toolkit included : a) Directions on how to run the photo booth b) Suggested tweets c) Signage to maintain Camp Kesem branding and d) A sample press release and media alert. Equip Volunteers for Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Harrison has over 61.5k How can your organization apply this?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics , Douglas Gould Company Must-Know Insights from #15NTC , Kevin Martone, Harold Grinspoon Foundation via Getting Attention 15NTC: Tech Tools & Austin Tips , Roshani Kothari, Ginkgo Street Labs NTEN 2015 Wrap Up , Paul St. This much fun , Deborah Elizabeth Finn #15NTC = Amazing , Liza J.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin pictures of animals who need homes. Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter. Use that opportunity to get a picture with the family. Bonus for pictures of your furry friends in action chasing and playing with them. Pin pictures of people in their costumes at your holiday party carnival.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. These activities are fun, and they promote an empathetic point of view. Photo prompt—Each player selects a picture from a magazine or other source and describes the behaviors that are occurring from several different perspectives. Start slowly.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We had 100% participation from the Foundation Board, amounting to over $881,000. Our e-mail strategy included that consistent look, impactful messaging, clear calls-to-action, a hyperlink to the giving site, student-centered photos and social media links. Our #GivingTuesday results were transformational. We raised a grand total of $5.7

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Make it Fun! Hold fun, internal gatherings to celebrate victories : specified number of notes written, donations received, etc. Tip: If a good number of physicians were recognized with gifts, load their pictures on the posts and the hospital/foundation website as a thank you to all who honored them.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. Just because an event is a professional activity doesn't mean it can't be fun.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When you take away all the bells and whistles, you end up with the foundation of your blog: the content. A big block of text is like a brick wall—it’s not too fun to look at, and it’s just about as hard to get through. A picture says a thousand words, and it takes a fraction of the time to digest. Split it Up. Add some visuals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Focus on the big picture and create guidelines that can be applied across many social media tools, such as. Learn Basic HTML.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2017

billion, more than double the amount of foundations, charitable bequests and corporations combined. Imagery – People naturally look at pictures before reading text. Select photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to develop drive and energy to support your cause. Donations by individuals accounted for $264.5

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

You can only post from your phone (or from Hootsuite on a computer after integrating Instagram), so you’ll want to recruit fun images from and about your team members, and save to your phone. There are so many easy ways to curate images—from team outings, program activities and events to pictures of your mission in action and those you serve.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A volunteer group put on a Fun Day. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. A new employee at a local foundation educates herself on the agencies they are funding by visiting their social network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations? Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations. kanter this is so insightful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

While window shopping in our neighborhood this weekend, my husband and I went into a store that was selling the beautiful handmade bag pictured here. You can also check out some other ideas myself and Have Fun * Do Good readers had last year here , here , here and here. Photo credit: Shelley Big Bag from Be Sweet site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. My colleagues who support the The Sharing Foundation also make fundraising for their favorite cause a family activity. Spend it together online, checking out pictures and project descriptions."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

As an arts organization, you can have lots of fun coming up with incentives for your peer-to-peer fundraisers , and you can also empower them to offer ticket and class discounts in return for donations. You could even include digital copies of never-before-seen photos of past shows or exclusive recordings of rehearsals.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed. Communication is a foundational element of. Your supporters will sense when you’re having fun with your digital outreach methods rather than using them to mechanically promote your organization. . What is this affliction? It’s a phenomenon called. digital fatigue.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I believe that when you do that, when you add those stories and the ease of telling a story to your tool chest, if you will, that you are building a strong foundation to be sustainable, to help people understand what it is you do, what you need, all of that, and that really you’re building lifelong supporters. . We are thrilled.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We then wrote a new set of marketing materials, programming literature, opera­tional handbooks, and appeal letters to donors and foundations. We even received com­pliments from foundations saying the quality of our grant applications and reports were some of the best they had ever seen. Start simple.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed. Communication is a foundational element of any successful nonprofit strategic plan. Your supporters will sense when you’re having fun with your digital outreach methods rather than using them to mechanically promote your organization. What is this affliction?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’re going to talk about the bigger picture things as it relates to personal branding and making yourself memorable, so you can raise some more money and improve those donor relations. We’re going to start out kind of the big picture. But the big picture is, let’s put that in our heads for a second.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Neverthirst share pictures showing communities before they had access to clean water, what their facilities were and the state of the water. Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts. Then they show what it is like now.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We recommend using an integrated payment processor and including information about it in your form (like the PCI badge pictured below) so donors can be sure that your donation process is secure. Picture a potential donor. If your form looks untrustworthy, no one will want to put their personal information into it.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It’s going to be a fun one. I’m also a girl dad and I can’t miss an opportunity to show photos of my three daughters. But a lot of fun. And I think this day I took this picture was the day that I really started to ask this question. And it was really fun to experience that. Thanks for joining us.

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