Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2012

With so many incredible videos submitted to this year’s contest it was no easy task, but judges in the 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards have narrowed down the field of entries to 16 finalists. The 16 finalist videos can be watched on the Contest homepage. The medium educates, inspires and moves people to action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Direct all your promotion to the website so folks can take action to support your cause and event as soon as they hear about it. Elements that add fun and excitement to your event, like hole-in-one contests, are also a prime sponsorship opportunity (and cover the contest’s fixed costs). Send Save-the-Dates.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. The core elements in both crowd and community engagement are time, action, and people. Who do you need to reach?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And, remember, the best time to post is usually when it is most useful for your communities to take action. Raise awareness for your Shop with a contest. A contest is a good way to get promotion for your Shop with your follower’s friends and family circles.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is taking submissions starting February 1st. The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is taking submissions starting February 1st. Are you a nonprofit?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Before I show you some easy ways to generate QR codes, here are some examples of how nonprofits are using them: Be Rare Contest, South Carolina Aquarium. They created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. This was an easy way to get people engaged and provided a simple way to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

I will summarize the top takeaways and the call to action: Nonprofits and the people who work for them have to loose their fear of taking risks and that opens us up to fail and improve. This means front loading failure as well as doing “after action reviews.” npfail #13ntcbets. Shari (@silsen) April 13, 2013.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

The denial is one of the latest actions stemming from a data breach at the Charleston, South Carolina-based software and data services firm. In paying the fine, Blackbaud officials neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s findings, but agreed not to contest them. By some counts, the class size could have reached 1.5

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TechImpact

APRIL 16, 2014

With social media feeds ostensibly saturated with the Tweets, posts, and calls to action from their peers and other nonprofits, it becomes imperative that your nonprofit’s message stands out. Creating images, infographics, or any other visual will translate your message in a new way. Give away ANYTHING.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2015

If your nonprofit is committed to maximizing engagement on Twitter, then you must create visually compelling call-to-action images for fundraising and advocacy campaigns. Enter a contest. Sign online petition and pledges. Extinction_OPS. Make a donation. Survival. Participate in a crowdfunding campaign. RainforestTrust. IndSector.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

share with their personal networks the actions they take related to a cause, all through the megaphone of their mobile devices and social media. There are five main action opportunities where your supporters can take action with your cause. But what exactly is social fundraising? . Continue to ask your supporters to share.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 14, 2012

Their goal is to help supporters understand and memorize the simple call-to-action: donate to us on June 14 th. Since the Twive contest kicked off a couple months ago, these nonprofits got to work. A great side effect is that people are going to feel good about their actions. The Importance of a Strong Community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2021

Galas, contests and performances went virtual. To discover some actionable ways you can reach, or even exceed, your fundraising goals with virtual elements as part of to your events, download this free infographic, 7 Ways to Help Your Virtual Fundraising Event Achieve In-Person Results. Athletic events and luncheons went virtual.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. million dollar budget, around $16,000 has been generated via YouTube’s Google Checkout and other donations via PayPal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It’s also a great time for nonprofits to host a contest or run a Halloween campaign focusing on one of your issues to enage your constituents before launching into the holiday season and the year-end fundraising. You can also host a themed pumpkin carving contest that is connected to one of the campaigns you are working on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Create a list of donors who have not donated in 18 months and invite them to participate in some calls to action (CTAs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

” A ‘Little Bet” as defined by Peter Sims, author of the book – Little Bets, is a small action that you can take to discover something new. Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.”

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 7, 2025

The trustee now wants executives to pay back those fees; any money recovered through such legal actions as well as this months auction is likely going to go to the companys primary lender HPS, which is reportedly owed $500 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Action Items (Mobile-optimize donate page, launch presence on Instagram, host Google+ Hangout, rebrand social networks, etc.). Budget (Cost of implementing action items). Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube videos that link to e-newsletter subscribe page. Goals (Increase traffic, followers, donations, etc.).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee. Learn more and get started now! Submissions close March 21st.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Hosting contests, sweepstakes, giveaways and other types of promotions is a common strategy for businesses looking to build their following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media channels. Here are seven ways to use social media to improve the quality of your email list. Offer relevant promotions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2016

Promote an online contest and offer free giveaways where signing up for your e-newsletter is required to enter. Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube video s that link to e-newsletter subscribe page. Offer exclusive content such as reports and e-books that require an email address in order for these to be downloaded.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

But the reality is that people don’t even need to buy the scientific case for climate change to take actions that address the issue: wouldn’t everybody like to save money on energy efficiency if it was painless or easy? Zerofootprint supports the running of contests between schools (or whatever unit you want to pick).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 The case became a class action lawsuit in 2018. Donato said the settlement was a “landmark result” and a “major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy.”. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2013

Cisco is generously contributing $3500 to four contest winners. In addition to prizes provided by Cisco, contest winners will be featured on the YouTube homepage and receive free registration to the Nonprofit Technology Conference, the signature event hosted by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

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TechSpot

JULY 19, 2022

Bloomberg notes that Affinity Credit Union (ACU), out of Iowa, has hired representation to contest Apple's tap-to-pay system. Its lawyers are looking into whether they can create a class-action case of the complaint. Apple could face a new antitrust lawsuit in the coming months.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

You can also offer “add-on” tickets for things like concessions, raffle or contest entries, and even tickets for rides or activities ahead of time. We’re big, big believers in the power of social fundraising — the act of getting fundraisers and their supporters to post to their personal networks about the actions they take with your cause.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways. With a new impact page, a way to send photo updates to donors, and the marketing muscle of Karma Store , GETSET-GO will continue to put technology in action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

It’s a great online home for decks from speaking engagements, about your organization, or even call-to-action PowerPoint presentations. ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests in order to build your email list and collect user generated content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. So, what’s different about this contest than other online contests?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

" Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right | Beth’s Blog – "The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. Today, let’s look at infographics in general – and resources to help your nonprofit get started on making your own."

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

But there weren’t many contestants vying to take it away. Built for Action : Design processes for efficient, timely decision-making. But for decades, associations easily held pride of place in their industries. Members saw us as a professional home, their most trusted source of advocacy and information. Yes, we had to win that loyalty.

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NetWits

MAY 16, 2012

Our insatiable demand to consume content and calls to action effortlessly via mobile web is being met. Here’s three easy steps to get you started: Mobilize your online messaging , particularly when including a call to action. Because 50% of America, and growing, are all over mobile web. We have a love affair with our smartphones.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. Yep, only 2% said celebrities were motivating their actions! That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? But, on the top of the chart: a compelling cause.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Contest is here!

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