Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many K-12 schools have found success by centralizing their asks in celebration of the students, faculty and staff building a legacy. Engage current students and alumni to share those stories on your giving day hub to give real-life meaning to how a donation can impact the campus community. Do they need photos and logos?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Keep a list of students or your group members on hand to make sure everyone gets a candygram, and add a sign to your table giving people an option to order extra candygrams to cover the cost. For a fun addition, ask students to bring sleeping bags and blankets to school with them. kids that have food allergies. Pictures with Santa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. We want to see that students with disabilities have equal opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2020, they set a goal of raising $40,000 for their combined #GivingTuesday/year-end fundraiser to raise funds for their virtual summer camp. Woven Health Clinic is on their third year of hosting an awards ceremony fundraiser, but this year they did things a bit differently – they went virtual. They don’t get discouraged.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

You're busy, but you want to volunteer--why not try being a virtual volunteer! Virtual or online volunteering allows you to do your volunteer work online. In her post, Be a Virtual Volunteer, Karama of the blog, So What Can I Do? Are you inspired and ready to find a virtual volunteer opportunity? virtual volunteer

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. and introduce the former volunteer to any new virtual volunteer opportunities that are available. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Both organisations are looking for new ways of fundraising and are looking into the possibilities in Virtual Worlds. "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

From large in-person events to a more casual virtual gathering, a fundraising silent auction can bring in much-needed revenue and provide supporters with a fun-filled night. Silent auctions can be hosted in-person or virtually, meaning participants can bid for prized items from the comfort of their homes.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

For a virtual or hybrid event, add a raffle ticket item to your online store so online attendees can still participate. When Christmas card season rolls around, it always seems like a last-minute mad dash to find those family photos that you can send out to family and friends. Seasonal Raffle Prize Ideas. Family portrait sitting.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the deep relationships that are built with students, families, and faculty. The best time to build that relationship is while they’re a student at your school. Get "Likes" from Students and Families.

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Achieve

MARCH 24, 2022

They present the perfect opportunity for young students to participate in charitable giving while doing something as simple as giving away shoes they’ve outgrown. Be sure to brand it to your organization, and include engaging information like your campaign goal, a captivating photo, a description of your cause, and a fundraising thermometer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Most of the nonprofits are using it as a form of clever newsjacking — discovering that the nonprofit’s office or program location is a Pokemon stop and have snapped a photo for social media posting. Others are using it to lure visitors to their location. Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it. A Few Concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories. The profits from the business help both Germaine and these other families.Germaine uses her Windows Phone as her virtual store. Germaine: A Social Entrepreneur. Favorite: On A Mission To Help Children in Rwanda.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I had a chance to sit down with Trish and Dar at the last Commons Sprint in San Francisco , and with Shun virtually, to hear the story of how the app came to life, what it can do for the community, and how the Commons supported their journey. This organization does home visits to check in on the students.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). After a campaign, event, or awesome thing you did, send clips and art and photos from behind the scenes and at the event or completion of a campaign. Community impact or commemorative wall.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Having to rely on virtual fundraising to get through some difficult times opened many people’s eyes to the convenience, ease, and accessibility of online events and fundraisers. Virtual fundraising is here to stay, so if you need some COVID-friendly fundraising ideas, check our complete list out! Virtual peer-to-peer fundraisers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. Every donor should get something, even if just a brief email with a photo of someone they helped and a quick “ You’re our hero! ” If you’re a school, ask students to help. or “ You did it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Give them a chance to inspire those women by supporting your cause — you can even showcase photos of the women in your supporters’ lives on social media for a certain donation tier or send out a special IWD card to the women your supporters are donating for. Purim Costume Party Fundraiser (varies; usually early-mid March). Click To Tweet.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We’ve broken it down into traditional , seasonal , virtual , scholastic , kid-focused , and grown-ups-only events. Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. This motivational program lets you, your students, staff, or volunteers learn typing from a range of tutorials using voice response, 3D animation, video, and virtual reality. Photo: phonakins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. The State of Play is a law and technology academy built in a virtual world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. On the topics of metrics, we don't have a name for virtual worlds yet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Extra points if you include an amusing photo, cartoon or video with your post. Be sure to read his post for more campaign details and check out the over 1,000 photos of people who have joined their Virtual Bed-In. Your favorite fun, creative nonprofit campaign (i.e. fundraising, advocacy). Your own take on the theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. So back to last night's events.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

You could even include digital copies of never-before-seen photos of past shows or exclusive recordings of rehearsals. Just make sure the bidding is also open to virtual attendees! This would involve setting up one-on-one virtual conversations with your arts organization’s local celebrities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. site that has photos, etc., While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. I hope you will join me for… StrangeMuse Experiment—this Sunday, April 5. meet my husband and parents-in-law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! What do you think?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

TIP: Attach a brief video or a photo showing how their gift will be used. TIP: Take photos of staff or program recipients holding thank you signs; then use a free app (e.g., Include a link to a video, photo or graphic that makes your donor feel good about those being helped – because of their support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. If you don’t have enough visual content to accompany a great story you plan to tell, consider augmenting with stock photos.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

Especially with COVID in the mix, you’re looking for fundraising ideas that will work well virtually in 2021, keeping in mind that later in the year it may be possible to host them in person. Even better are hybrid options: in-person fundraising ideas that also combine virtual fundraising elements for those who feel more comfortable at home.

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