CauseVox

JULY 11, 2022

For the past 23 years, Invest in Kids has hosted the Jane-A-Thon, a fun-filled ski and snowboarding event at Colorado’s Winter Park Resort. Whether participants are joining with a corporate sponsor, or signing up with family and friends, individuals of all ages and skill levels can make an impact by raising money for kids in need.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Your foodie supporters will love the opportunity to learn some new skills in the kitchen and add new recipes to their repertoire under the watchful eye of expert culinary teachers. Restaurant gift certificates. Spa treatment gift cards. Escape room gift certificate. Cooking classes. Calling all aspiring chefs!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. Step 3: Make a training plan. What problems still vex them? It’s important to be obvious.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. And our virtual communication skills were not up to the task of addressing those negative emotions. These five competencies are the core of the EI skill set.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Our new playground equipment has turned our backyard into an oasis of fun for our resident kids to play and just be a kid. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. The organizer set a goal of sending five $100 gift cards each month. You can make that donor feel special and appreciated to the point that they give you another gift. You want to stretch, grow, and learn new skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s got to be fun – games and activities can make a big difference. Sharing memories – stories, pictures – after the party keeps the good feeling going, and makes everyone want to attend next year. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 on me-too purchases, which are the impulse buys that people make for themselves while they're shopping for gifts. could go towards giving the people you love a gift, and making the world a better place? You can give a Kiva gift certificate for as little as $25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2014

If you have gifts from both the Golf Tournament and the Phone-a-thon given in support of the Clothes For The Homeless program, for example, there’s no need to worry about spending “golf tournament dollars” versus spending “phone-a-thon dollars” – as long as the donor designation is fulfilled, those monies can be pooled. Why is this?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

Not everything you see is real: You soon see Bethany lying on her bed with a selfie stick snapping pictures. Eventually, she snaps the PERFECT picture. Up on Instagram the picture goes. Their choice of character determined their skill sets, abilities, and weaknesses in the game. Your team members have unique skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a sector, we’ve been addicted to the buzz about social media – and social media itself – for nearly 20 years, but if we take a step back and take a critical look at the big picture of social media, many nonprofits will discover that their return on investment (ROI) from using social media is minimal. They live in a different world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There’s something really nice about catching up with fellow donors during a luncheon or participating in a fun run to raise money for a nonprofit. People love the excitement of being able to bid on vacations or gift packages. And they motivate people to give more — either through monetary contributions or volunteering.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. That’s just a quick fun fact for you.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so it’s not uncommon that as you’re working through your gift tables and your commitments that your leadership or your donors will want to rush out and, you know, launch the social media campaign or start a new grassroots initiatives. Not being able to build out your gift tables. Momentum is really important.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2023

Sharing the impact a donation will have on your athletes personally or on the team as a whole will galvanize your supporters to make a gift to your team or program. Virtual Sports Fundraising Ideas Virtual walk Take your traditional 5K, fun run, or walk online by hosting a virtual walk-a-thon.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. But the governor became a friend and then I took my skills to the nonprofit sector, and I’ve been executive director, development director, board member, you name it. I love the copy as well as the picture. . So there are different pictures that happen. . Steven: Yes.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! Since many of your board members are professionals in the charitable space, they likely know other high impact supporters to contact and request gifts from. Then, divide your participants into teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Although Michelle has some deeply geeky skills, she writes from the perspective of a neo-luddite. At this point in my life, I'm not worrying about getting business so much - I'm thinking a lot more about a bigger picture of things, and assuming that it will all work out in the end. Is there a downside to gift economies?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those who are invited to join the board should bring a needed expertise or skill set. All board members should start with their own gift first. When board members make a gift to your organization, it shows the board is committed to the organization’s success. Fun and fellowship will yield dividends.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer skills-based volunteer opportunities for participants to enhance certain skills, especially tech-related ones. Ensure you thoroughly explain what each role involves and create fun role descriptions to get volunteers interested and prepared! Ask volunteers what they’d like to see. Conduct volunteer appreciation efforts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Classy, we put our own fundraising skills to this test with our annual #ClassyGives initiative, where our staff collectively fundraises for a nonprofit organization. For people who you know can’t afford a large gift, make a more targeted ask that makes it easier to give. Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

If we’re just talking about methods, there’s major gifts, bequests and trusts, corporate relations, grant proposals, direct mail, social media, virtual and in-person events. Then there’s back-office work, including gifts processing, prospect research, and record keeping—and the computer skills to support it all.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It’s going to be a fun one. 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 we won actually a lot of awards for that and it was really fun to see that come in. And it was really fun to experience that. Who doesn’t want that?

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

Consider purchasing a small gift card and randomly selecting a winner from those who complete the survey. What skills do you have? To gain leadership skills. To donate their professional skills. Be sure to post different content formats to the online communities too, like videos, gifs, and pictures, in addition to text.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So I can picture your office or your home office. Maybe she’s even worried that she doesn’t have the skills to actually do her job anymore. She does batch gift entry. You could say, “Mary, I would love to get your suggestions of how we can improve our batch gift entry process. So, yep, this is me.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. ” You can also speak to the skills and the talents and the successes of those leading the program. So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information. We’re going to engage lots of community members.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s always a fun handoff, right? Whenever we talk about people love people, we like to put ourselves out of the picture. So when we talk about loving people, it’s not just about loving other people, but how can we use the skills that we have to love ourselves to love other people. . We send each other pictures.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

It means pairing your skills as a copywriter and graphic designer with tried-and-true best practices and a data-backed understanding of your organization’s specific audiences. If your nonprofit has great merch that supporters want to wear , a free t-shirt or hoody makes for a great event uniform and a great thank-you gift.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2022

Functioning primarily as a picture and video sharing platform, Instagram is a great place to share visuals of the work your organization does. For your profile picture, it’s best to use your organization’s logo. Instagram is primarily a social media platform for sharing pictures and videos. Branding your account.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Supporters want to know that their gift is making an impact, and a newsletter is a great way to help them feel more involved and keep them up to date on the projects their donation helped make possible. Check out this Fundraising Fundamentals eBook we made with our friends at Donorly to keep learning and honing your fundraising skills!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We put together a week-long curriculum to really help people do just that: find their purpose and then give them the skills. Normally, unless you go to a country and are willing to volunteer six months to a year and have a viable skill that they could use (i.e. Then we also worked directly in CCF, which was the most fun ever.

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