Greater Giving

APRIL 9, 2024

Hats, Horses, and Hope: How to Host a Winning Kentucky Derby Event The thrill of the race, the mint juleps flowing, and the outrageous hats – there’s something undeniably fun about the Kentucky Derby event. Allow the sponsor to announce the winners and get photos to share for next year.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Post an image, video, or graphic to get the conversation started and assign the same person to monitor it who will be working the chatroom during the event. Gather your team together to create a boxed gift that will go out to your VIP guests, sponsors, or maybe all your attendees! Speed networking for fun and donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Social media is the perfect place to talk about their experiences and share their stories. 6) Use video and live streaming for storytelling. While photos can be fun, videos create a more visceral experience and will create a more powerful memory. 4) Encourage your existing members to share their experiences.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Contests are also a great way to get sponsors or exhibitors involved. You may have speakers invited for a specific purpose, but what about a fun and engaging speaker that everyone loves? . This can provide a deeper connection between attendees and strengthen any business networking that is taking place at the same time. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Recent global happenings have turned the event industry on its head and event organizers have been scrambling to save their events and deliver a valuable experience to event attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors alike. Consider real-time text chat as well as audio and video chat. Offer Customizable Exhibitor Booths.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Content could be anything: Resources about your mission Fun downloads for your constituents Quizzes about your cause One client created an origami pinwheel for Child Abuse Awareness Month. Other content ideas we have helped create for Doing Good Digital clients: checklists, coloring pages, eBooks, videos, activity books, and stationery.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Bring skills to the table to do tasks you can’t afford to hire out (like bookkeeping, lawn maintenance, facility maintenance, video editing, etc.). Volunteers who are excited about their work will invite friends and family to join them in the fun, magically growing your volunteer base. They’ll bring their friends. Just use your phone.

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AccelEvents

JULY 8, 2020

This knowledge will help you plan your marketing strategy and choose exhibitors, speakers, and sponsors that are relevant to the interests and concerns of your virtual attendees. Because these events are taking place digitally, it is possible to reach a global audience. Live video streaming can help you engage a large audience.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

Plus, it can help you keep track of all your volunteer applications in one place. Create a Volunteer Recruitment Video. A great way to engage potential volunteers is to create a recruitment video that gives an inside look at your nonprofit and the different ways that volunteers can get involved. Reach out to Local Businesses.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. Celebrity meet and greets It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to sit down for lunch or a video call with your favorite celebrity.

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

For live sessions like a keynote address or product demo, make sure that you have a moderator in place, watching the text chat, to pull audience questions and deliver them to the presenter. Depending on the size and scale of the individual sessions, chat options can include text and live video. Make networking fun. Gamification.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

And they allow companies to continue hosting popular events for their consumers even with gathering restrictions in place. . Find sponsors and partners. By requiring registration and ticketing through your event management platform, and using this same system to host the streaming, your metrics will all be in one place. .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

And with the right event management tools, organizing your guests and tracking your fundraising progress can be done all in one place! Customize your event pages, simplify the registration process, and manage your guests all in one place! With simple registration pages, your supporters can easily buy tickets to your next event.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Recent global happenings have turned the event industry on its head and event organizers have been scrambling to save their events and deliver a valuable experience to event attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors alike. Consider real-time text chat as well as audio and video chat. Offer Customizable Exhibitor Booths.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe you’re hoping to raise awareness or funds, show some supporter appreciation, do some community building, or maybe you just want to have a little fun. It’s also helpful to share your campaign updates via video, as campaigns with video updates raise on average 5.7x 8) Have a post-event strategy in place before the event.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

People do not want to miss out on something fun and exciting! Early bird tickets, general admission, and VIP tickets are a great place to start. . But if they are farther afield, consider having them appear through a real-time virtual session or video conferencing set up. . Use the Right Technology. And it isn’t hard to see why.

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AccelEvents

JULY 8, 2020

This knowledge will help you plan your marketing strategy and choose exhibitors, speakers, and sponsors that are relevant to the interests and concerns of your virtual attendees. Because these events are taking place digitally, it is possible to reach a global audience. Live video streaming can help you engage a large audience.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Organizers can expect potentially larger attendee numbers while exhibitors and sponsors can expect not only more leads but better-qualified leads. This information can be used in the future to provide more valuable content, improve marketing strategies, and appeal to the right sponsors. Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

If you’re looking for a fun and exciting way to raise more money for your cause, a benefit concert is a perfect solution. Foster community engagement at your benefit concert as local musicians, volunteers, and donors all gather in one place for a cause they care about. Crank up your nonprofit fundraising with a benefit concert!

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Wistia : Boost video engagement while tracking video performance. Yet another inexpensive way to guarantee fun event photos is to set up a backdrop with fun props and to enlist the help of a photo booth photographer. Follow-up emails also offer an excellent place for attendees to provide feedback via a survey.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Big Brothers Big Sisters – Leverage video to tell your story. Through the Start Something Web Series they’re shedding light on the impact that Bigs have on Littles by telling their story through quality video they publish on their YouTube channel, share on their website and talk about on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

Place a little bet & or share your #failure story… you could win a Surface! Some smart organizations are helping their people make failure not only productive, but also fun. CALL TO ACTION: Place a Little Bet at Your Nonprofit and Share It (You could win a Microsoft Surface or Other Schwag from the Case Foundation).

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Now that physical distancing requirements are relaxing slightly, some in the festival industry have found ways to promote festival-like events to crowds virtually, while physically distanced, or with other safety measures in place. . Drive-in movies can be simple to operate and bring a ton of fun. . But how can it be done?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. For a fun twist the kids are sure to appreciate, turn your car wash into a dog wash for the furry friends in your community! Candygrams.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. You can easily setup a place for them to do this using our online fundraising software. Luckily the virtual format gives you a lot of flexibility to make sponsors happy.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

You’re booking the evening’s entertainment, connecting with sponsors, and collecting all of your auction baskets and items. One place to start is by looking at the demographics of your donors and supporters. Now that you have a marketing strategy in place, it’s time to design your actual auction announcement. Dress code.

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

For live sessions like a keynote address or product demo, make sure that you have a moderator in place, watching the text chat, to pull audience questions and deliver them to the presenter. Depending on the size and scale of the individual sessions, chat options can include text and live video. Make networking fun. Gamification.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Roles in a Sponsor Committee. Much like an item procurement committee, sponsor committees are about solicitation and relationship management. an entertainment sponsor or drink sponsor) and find in-kind donation items for your auction. Creating sponsor levels with giving thresholds (or associated in-kind donations).

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Find something fun that fits your mission! Whatever you choose, it should be easy to post as a photo, video, or written story. . Make it fun. Funny photo challenges, moving personal stories and experiences, or skits are all great places to look for a fun challenge. Make it social media-friendly.

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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! The vendor that raises the most money will win prizes that help with their business, like a free video ad or partnership with the organization. Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Raffles often take place at fundraising events like galas or auctions. Emphasize the positive publicity that corporate sponsors and individual donors can receive from donating raffle prizes to your event. Video gaming system. Offering a video game system like a PS5 can be enticing for supporters. Picnic basket.

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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. 5K/Marathon.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a day of global generosity and charitable giving that takes place on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. Host an auction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support. Mention the donor in emails directly about the event they sponsored. This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. These need not look like a commercial.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This generally requires that your organization invests in online auction software where people can place their bids online. For a hybrid auction, you’ll need to research and choose an online auction platform so all of your guests can place bids. Why should you consider hosting hybrid auctions? Choose an auction platform.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Organizers can expect potentially larger attendee numbers while exhibitors and sponsors can expect not only more leads but better-qualified leads. This information can be used in the future to provide more valuable content, improve marketing strategies, and appeal to the right sponsors. Scheduled video, audio, or VR sessions.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

The kids can participate with their families and fundraise on behalf of your organization by getting other family members to sponsor them. Video game fundraising events. Another hybrid fundraising idea designed with kids in mind is a hybrid video game event. This can take the form of gaming marathons or video game tournaments.

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