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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: A Program that Keeps Guests Smiling – pt.1

Greater Giving

During the transition to virtual events, nonprofit event planners simply didn’t have a playbook. One of the biggest issues that nonprofits reported with virtual events (detailed in our State of Nonprofit Fundraising publication) was guest engagement. But embracing low-cost technological solutions can help. Are there a lot of parents?

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Engaging Both In-person and Virtual Programs

Top Nonprofits

We know in-person programming is slowly coming back and you need to bring back your audience members who have fallen quiet during the pandemic. But your virtual programming isn’t going away – not after all the amazing new connections you have made without the limits of physical location. New virtual audiences.

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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: A Program that Keeps Guests Smiling

Greater Giving

During the transition to virtual events, nonprofit event planners simply didn’t have a playbook. One of the biggest issues that nonprofits reported with virtual events (detailed in our State of Nonprofit Fundraising publication) was guest engagement. But embracing low-cost technological solutions can help. Are there a lot of parents?

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Building a Complete Virtual Auction Toolkit: 5 Essentials

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A virtual auction can bring many benefits for your organization. From expanding your nonprofit’s reach and making your events more accessible to donors all over the world to boosting your revenue, a virtual auction is a modern and exciting fundraising event that every nonprofit should consider adding to their calendar. Let’s begin.

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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: Exciting Live Auctions & Appeals – pt. 2

Greater Giving

Even with groundbreaking advances in technology and streaming, virtual events still bring an inherent distance between the action and the viewers. So how do you replicate that energy in an event where some or all guests are watching from home—and keep everyone watching the stream all the way through? TIP: Make it a destination!

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Hold a BLOCKBUSTER Virtual Event Like The Dougy Center

Greater Giving

At the very start of the pandemic, The Dougy Center seized virtual fundraising by the horns and held their very first online-only event. They already knew they could reach their local supporter base—now they saw their virtual event as a unique chance to reach a broader audience than ever before. Let Guests Give and They’ll Give.

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3 Emerging Fundraising Trends for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Virtual and Augmented Reality for Donations. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are two technologies that are popular in the gaming industry because they provide an immersive experience. Virtual reality does this by creating a digital environment that you can explore with a headset and headphones.

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