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. Add a big screen to project the actual Kentucky Derby Race for the ultimate viewing experience.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Salesforce.org community members who volunteer their time and expertise on the Summit Events project through Open Sources Commons. This project has also really elevated my Salesforce knowledge and experience.”. Here are some key takeaways from the survey results: Black participants did not feel represented.

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Education Collaboration Open Source Module 73

Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Forms can be used to survey volunteers and program participants about their experiences with your organization, gather opinions from donors about an upcoming strategic plan, and about 100 other things. Signup Genius: This is a fantastic tool for volunteer projects that involve shifts and other moving parts. It’s not fun.

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Product Organization Doc Calendar 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

My job is so much fun! Scott McNeil came to Benetech and we talked about their MetaMouse project (getting multiple mice to work on the same PC, so that kids in low-PC resource places can work together). We talked about their Jaipur knee project, and a low-cost lighting solution to fight jaundice in newborns.

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Uganda Africa Proposal Survey 124

TechImpact

AUGUST 28, 2014

However, mismanagement of volunteers due to other budgeting restraints could turn a fun, giving-back experience into a stressful, this-feels-like-work one. Schedules and lists are a great way to prepare your volunteers for an upcoming event or project. Survey volunteers. Reward volunteers.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t forget to extend your timeline to after your event, as well, which includes writing thank you letters, sending out a post-event survey, and more. Landscaping service: Winner receives a few hours of a project done on their property. Consider something fun for dinner, like a mashed potato bar or a make-your-own-pizza station.

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Fundraising Sponsor Tips Classroom 52

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2023

Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. . This phase may include audience interviews, surveys, field studies, an experience map or journey map, experience principles, or personas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Preliminary results from the 2015 NGO Global Technology Survey reveal that social media is increasingly a primary source of online giving inspiration, but social media calls-to-follow were rarely integrated into the donation and “Thank you” process, and if they were, they were visually underwhelming. Not at all. .

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Donation Lesson Online Learning 100

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Are you trying to connect local business leaders for a particular project? Allows for fun: A virtual cocktail hour or virtual coffee can relax attendees and allow for a more relaxed exchange without the same pressures of more rigid sessions. . This survey is the best way to get honest feedback from guests.

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Virtual Hosting Network Industry 98

TechImpact

OCTOBER 29, 2014

However, mismanagement of volunteers due to other budgeting restraints could turn a fun, giving-back experience into a stressful, this-feels-like-work one. Schedules and lists are a great way to prepare your volunteers for an upcoming event or project. Survey volunteers. Click Here! Learn how to better manage your volunteers.

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Volunteer Management Ideas Tech 152

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Use surveys to find out what staff need. Casual Fridays or “Fun Fridays” Encourage staff to ask for help. Do fun icebreakers at meetings and other team building activities. Volunteer on a project together. Special projects that are professionally fulfilling and interesting. Hike during staff retreat.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Another way to fundraise without the burden of organizing a venue is to create merchandise specific to the campaign or project for your fundraising. Because this type of fundraising can involve investing in an inventory before launching the fundraiser, nonprofits should gauge their supporter’s interest in the campaign with a survey.

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Free Team Fundraising Contest 92

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. People like to engage, and when you enter them into a raffle for a prize (preferably one that is donated), they’re more likely to join the fun.

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Donor Strategy Retention Relationship 141

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. You can check out all twenty research projects here. Don''t (always) call it a survey. The teams delivered. Putting stickers on signs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. Photo by LIFT.

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Lesson Philanthropy Learning Survey 50

Achieve

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This is where the fun begins! The Millennial Impact Project. because many of our research projects attempt to generate not only explanations, but also a deeper meaning and understanding about cause work or endurance events. these insights through surveying the larger group of teams. The Millennial Running Study.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. For Phase 1, we aligned in this project by talking with key stakeholders to learn how they operate, what members need, and where they hoped to see improvements.

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Phase Design Service Storyboard 46

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Are you trying to connect local business leaders for a particular project? Allows for fun: A virtual cocktail hour or virtual coffee can relax attendees and allow for a more relaxed exchange without the same pressures of more rigid sessions. . This survey is the best way to get honest feedback from guests.

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Virtual Hosting Network Industry 52

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

, saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner. The session was so engaging and informative that, as soon as the session ended, I logged into my laptop and set up CI jobs in my project to get practice setting up my own pipelines.

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Chicago Knowledge Practice Attitude 59

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You can try: Sending donor surveys. Whether you choose to do this over a livestream video, as a post on social media, or in another format, consider having two people support this project. Try teaching people a fun fact or statistic related to your work. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill.

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Donor Strategy Nonprofit Phone 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew? 26. Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 343

Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) noted that while 2020 saw an overall increase in giving, that year’s donor retention rate dropped by 4.1 Surveys showing the donor you care to get to know more about them than the fact they have or gave money. Moving forward with how to retain and upgrade nonprofit donors in mind.

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Donor Giving Retention Gift 101

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

And it was so much fun to watch people answering the questions and getting real time data to things that would help our project. Background on the project: Stories of Our City is a worldwide project sharing true stories from around the world. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but loved it straight from the start.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Now that you’ve identified what the project goals are, pick measurable outcomes to determine what metrics you’ll use to track those goals. It’s fun, I promise!). Embarking on a new tech project is like building a house. Some to consider might be: Staff hours (or workdays) saved per year. Increase in single donations.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. We were talking before the session started, they’ve got a lot of really interesting projects. Aaron, Brian, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Campaign Video Project Process 92

Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

You can check out an in-depth look at the survey results in our webinar Inspiration Station: Creative Virtual Fundraising Ideas from Real Nonprofits. 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. Bingo Night.

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Virtual Ideas Guide Fundraising 69

NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Karl: This project actually goes beyond just a new website and is really more of a web presence redesign. Jessica: Mostly it’s really fun, and a bit intimidating, to get this chance to work on a great new web presence and finally address some longstanding technical and design issues. Julia: Why a new NTEN website? Design triumph?

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

If you participate in the 2015 Tech Staffing Survey , you’ll be entered to win your choice of a free 16NTC registration or a $500 Amazon gift card! The survey is only 15 minutes long, and the value of the data will continue to help nonprofits benchmark their technology planning (to help them change the world).

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 28, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual events were projected to be a major source of brand revenue for 2020. According to a survey conducted by Vimeo , these digital trends are expected to stay. Putting on a virtual event should be fun, but sometimes making decisions around production can be stressful.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.” From there, you can determine what projects can be shifted around. To take it a step further, bring some fun into the workplace with an employee-driven break activity that happens at the same time each day.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project?

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Even if you are doing something like giving a tour, a donor might ask if you gave so they can gauge their level of commitment to a project. You’ll meet some very interesting people and have some fun diversion from your daily routine. And believe me, the question comes up with donors more than you’d think. Final Thoughts.

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Fundraising Gift Roles Nonprofit 69

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. I wouldn't have wanted to own this project without her support.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The McKinsey report noted that a survey of 278 executives found that most planned to reduce office space by about 30 percent as they looked to fully remote or hybrid arrangements post-pandemic. The advantages of cost savings for office space is a huge incentive for nonprofits in particular that try and make every dollar count.

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Job Trend Nonprofit Search 78

Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). Please help them help you and take the survey. Check them out here.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In this fundraising form, your organization creates a donation page to which supporters can contribute to your next project. A recent survey shows that fun runs are among the most profitable nonprofit fundraising events, in part because they tend to go hand-in-hand with crowdfunding efforts. Selling merchandise at your event.

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Strategy Fundraising Registration Gift 58

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

In fact, it ought to be a fun, exhilarating, rewarding experience for both members of this important leadership team. However, there are times when simple surveys produce very meaningful information — and can provide the basis for deeper research projects. I have found no studies that dispute this. The answer?

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