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What Are Gaming Fundraisers and How Can They Raise Donations for Your Nonprofit?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The rise of the livestream, combined with the growing popularity and widespread appeal of video games, has created an attractive new opportunity for charities — gaming fundraisers. These events are an exciting new kind of fundraiser in which gamers raise money for charity by livestreaming themselves playing video games.

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Gamers are Givers: Using Charitable Games to Fundraise for Your Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

Given their omnipresence, it's exciting to consider how game companies can harness their immense reach and power to create community and social good, and how nonprofits can utilize games as platforms to fundraise and connect with small donors.

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Everything You Should Know about Gaming Fundraising

Donorbox

It’s an understatement to say that video games are popular. Around 3 billion people play video games worldwide and that number is only going up. That’s why so many nonprofits have gotten into gaming fundraising to take advantage of this popularity. Plus, charity gaming events are just plain fun!

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5 Game-Changing Marketing Tips to Maximize Auction Exposure

DNL OmniMedia

In this guide, we’ll review five game-changing strategies you can use to activate your marketing potential and bring in more supporters, let’s begin! You can add videos, questions, special promotional opportunities, and other activities to increase interactions and facilitate a stronger connection between you and your audience.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

So, if Facebook fundraising is a big game, how do you win? Tell the story with photos or a video. Photos do not need to be professionally shot and the video does not need to be professionally filmed and edited. Incorporate videos and Facebook Live events into your content. Host polls and contests to engage your audience.

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Livestream Fundraising: Is It Really Just Peer-to-Peer Online?

NonProfit PRO

We sometimes don’t want to believe that these online (especially gaming) communities are real communities. Social fundraising practitioners who grew up doing walks, runs and rides can have difficulty relating to livestreaming. But make no mistake — they are.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. They thought, wouldn’t it be interseting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come?

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