Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! Start planning early and secure your venue, date, and speakers, and you’ll be on your way to hosting a successful gala! Start promoting your next event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

This can lead to a new network of donors, volunteers, fundraisers, grantors, and even corporate sponsors. This means, if you’re hosting an upcoming event and have a supporter who just bought a ticket, you should craft the messaging to encourage them to share that they’re attending with their friends and family.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

8) Promote your fundraiser offline. If you’re looking to extend your reach beyond social media, there are numerous tactics to help your fundraiser gain more visibility offline. For more ideas about how to use social media to inspire more people to give, read our blog post on fundraising ideas for social media.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

One of the only ways to tell if you’ve just hosted a successful virtual event—with the promise of more future lead generation and sales—is to ask. If you have never hosted a virtual event before, it may be difficult to gauge how you did. Important Post Virtual Event Survey Questions to Ask Sponsors.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 11, 2019

Before you begin the process of seeking sponsorships, you need to know what your organization offers that can actually be sponsored. For example, if you regularly host fundraisers, consider having a company sponsor them. Stories generate empathy, so who knows—maybe a potential sponsor will be moved to action.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

You can add these into your virtual fundraising campaign site on CauseVox as an offline donation to showcase fundraising progress! Sponsors: Sponsors can be a major source of income for an in-person gala, and you don’t want to leave them behind. Luckily the virtual format gives you a lot of flexibility to make sponsors happy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Especially look for people with experience getting event sponsors, as this is the key to putting on an event that brings in money! Consider hosting a party in someone’s home as a first step to building excitement for a larger event next year. If you can find sponsors to cover all your expenses, you’ll make $7,000.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

The site was hosted on [link] , which used a URL and design that supported a strong sense of community around the campaign. Partnerships – We partnered with as many groups and sponsors as we could. Many of them were really driven by the community. We also leverage media opportunities to drive traffic to the campaign site.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Hosting events that members value. Hosting events that members want. Manage all of your vendors, speakers, and sponsor information in one convenient place. . Make sure to prioritize both online and offline opportunities to encourage community building. Providing a space for online community-building. Let’s dive in! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. The combination of bottom up and top down strategies could be powerful.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use Old School Marketing Channels to Stand Out This is the flip side of focusing all your event marketing efforts on digital channels: If you can break through with people in an offline setting, your message will really stand apart. And in order to do that, you’re going to have to go old school. Want to know more? We don’t blame you!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Participants can seamlessly track their activities through the app, which calculates and converts their efforts into charitable donations from corporate sponsors. What we love about Smartwaiver With an offline mode, Smartwaiver provides flexibility in collecting waivers, even if you don’t have an internet connection on-site of your event.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

If you want to host a successful auction, a lot of it comes down to the planning, resources, and charity auction software that you use. Comprehensive charity auction software is flexible and can host both in-person or virtual attendees. Your charity auction software is one of the most important investments that you’ll make.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

Historically, MDLT hadn’t run many in-person peer-to-peer fundraisers , so when they decided to host their Miles for MDLT fundraiser it was all new to them. Colleen was new to setting up a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, and had been working with offline donations for a long time.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Use events as a springboard to develop stronger partnerships with sponsors and to create deeper relationships with your donors. Don’t abandon all your offline communication—just be sure to support it with online efforts; you’ll get more bang for your buck. Whatever you do, be sure to stay in touch with the people you just hosted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Not long after we received our final letter from Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman our family has been sponsoring for college over the past four years, the first royalty check from The Networked Nonprofit arrived! Leng Sopharath, Phon Vandy, and CHom Thavy - Sharing Foundation College Students.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The NetSquared community consists of Local groups in 80+ cities worldwide that hold offline events for those interested in technology and social impact. NetSquared also sponsors a variety of other offline events like camps and challenges that enable participants to share ideas, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. How to Make it Great Hosting a meetup can cost you time and money. meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! While it is an offline event, the organizers leverage their social graphs to invite friends to the event and use social media for all aspects of managing and promoting the event. events morph and change. Charity Ball 2.0

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. He was able to fund his trip largely through corporate sponsors that he recognizes on the UnRoad Trip website. Diverse Goals. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

ve just attended a teleconference sponsored by Network for Good called ?Fundraising While admittedly most of his suggestions are for offline fundraising, his valuable insight can be translated to an online context, and so I thought I'd share what I learned: First, the No-Nos: Don?t Fundraising When Money is Tight.? d add to this?host

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CauseVox

JULY 6, 2021

If you’re planning on hosting a fundraising event and you want the perfect online fundraising platform, you need to do your research. Easily manage your event by giving you the power to make edits, add offline donations + tickets, and manage peer-to-peer. It doesn’t have to take forever to set up your fundraising site.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Beaconfire Consulting will be hosting the “Lounge with a Conscience” throughout the Interactive festival. Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map? This panel is sponsored by ShareThis.". Data will be shared!

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Even these digital-savvy individuals need a screen break from time to time, and direct mail can provide the perfect opportunity for offline connections. . For instance, if you hosted a virtual peer-to-peer fundraising event, ask supporters for suggestions on how the event could be improved in the future. millennials.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Even these digital-savvy individuals need a screen break from time to time, and direct mail can provide the perfect opportunity for offline connections. For instance, if you hosted a virtual peer-to-peer fundraising event, ask supporters for suggestions on how the event could be improved in the future.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

In lieu of their annual Thanksgiving Breakfast, they hosted a month-long virtual gala-style fundraiser that culminated in a Thanksgiving ‘gathering’. Along with first-hand testimonials, a speech, and a post recognizing sponsors, it mimicked the run-of-show for an actual event. And guess what?!

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Host virtual stewardship events for major donors: Meetings should be led by leadership like the CEO, Executive Director or a Board member. If you don’t have the technology to host a conference webinar, talk to your Board members and ask if they will sponsor the event by allowing you to use their conference technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

His creative and unusual campaign merged online activism with offline action, and combines the power of the web with live demonstration. Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. We have used the concept twice in a different way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

If you doing a plenary discussion panel at a conference, it is a good question to ask the host. I would have added some offline audience interaction. Think about the end first. What action or new way thinking do you want your audience to embrace. One of the first questions I asked Holly, “Why do you want a panel on this topic?”

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

You can even combine your Classy data with other online and offline data sources to create a more complete picture of your donors. Overview of This Integration ClickBid offers the mobile bidding tools you need to host successful online auctions. Track current and past donations. Get started with Charity Dynamics.

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