Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Are you engaged actively, or passively? Are you personally actively looking for opportunities to be of greater service? I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. At first everyone was ‘gung ho;’ it was fun. What moments is your nonprofit living?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time to take a good look at your plans for the final months of the year and find a fun, unique fall fundraiser that will make you and your donors feel comfortable and supported. Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. Trivia Night.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ve compiled a list of various online auction ideas divided into the following categories: Simple Themed Online Auctions Online Auctions For the Whole Family Online Auctions with an At-home Activity. You might provide flower crowns, a tie-dye bandana, and fun 60s themed sunglasses. Ready to dive in? Let’s begin.

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2024

Have people sign up for a fun field day, or pay to sponsor teams. This builds a list of people that you can reach out to again the next year, getting local champions involved. Embarrass the Boss Add fun to team challenges by raising the stakes! Try a theme, like “A Taste of the Lower East Side,” and partner with local vendors.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Partner with a local bakery to create a basket of fresh pastries, such as donuts, croissants, cookies, and muffins. Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. Local goods basket. Pastry basket. Gourmet chocolate basket. Personal chef prize. Tea time basket.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

At the college level, The Gamm offers a paid fellowship for emerging artists of color. With all of the programming and activities The Gamm provides, it’s no surprise that it receives strong support from the community. A local credit union, for example, sponsors It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play during the holidays.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Combine local businesses, a boardwalk, info booths, and a nice day for a good cause. Bike-a-Thon. World Bicycle Day (June 3). Movies for Impact.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

You may have speakers invited for a specific purpose, but what about a fun and engaging speaker that everyone loves? . Bring in a top local chef (see point #3) to host a virtual cooking class. A scavenger hunt could be a great team-building activity too! Hire a talented artist to create real-time illustrations in a session.

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Qgiv

APRIL 30, 2024

About fundraising galas and silent auctions Fundraising galas are formal evening affairs that may feature a seated dinner, live entertainment, and various fundraising activities, such as auctions or raffles. For attendees, galas and silent auctions provide a fun night out to support a cause they care about.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Are you approaching your work in an active or a passive manner? I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. and I was delighted to find the artist community was extremely generous when helping us out. . At first everyone was on board, and it was fun.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. You can make this virtual too!

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But after hosting many events over the years, how can your organization change up its approach and plan more engaging activities? Connecting with nearby TV and radio outlets can be a great way to reach your local audience. This might include your annual donor appreciation gala, local farmers’ market, or a community festival.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Before you start planning your raffle, make sure you understand what the local gambling laws are in your state. Reaching out to local businesses and artisans to see if they’d be willing to become in-kind sponsors for your event is another way you can collect items for your raffle. What are good raffle prize ideas? Home gym equipment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. We got more feedback.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Ensure that any necessary in-person elements of your fundraising efforts comply with your local health regulations and allow for safe social distancing. Partner with a local jewelry store, franchise, or online retailer to allocate a portion of sales to support your cause in the lead up to Mother’s Day. 9 Mother’s Day Fundraising Ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist. That doesn’t mean your nonprofit needs to become regularly active on Snapchat, but you should be aware of its increasing popularity and lay a foundation in case your nonprofit does decide to prioritize Snapchat in the future.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s a fun idea that ties in the organization to the activity. CauseVox also recently introduced our new activity metric , which allows participants to track their participation, whether that’s miles walked or laps swam. Plus it’s super fun. You can provide the beverages, or just rent out a room at a local bar or brewery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

They may be able to work with local stores or boutiques that act as sponsors and also get to show off their collections. Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. Comedy Nights Comedy nights are a good way to bring some lighthearted fun to your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

However, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun. Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

As an arts organization, you can have lots of fun coming up with incentives for your peer-to-peer fundraisers , and you can also empower them to offer ticket and class discounts in return for donations. You can gear your fundraiser towards these types of group activities and create new patrons in the process. Which CRM is right for me?

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Qgiv

JULY 26, 2021

What a fun, informative and (sometimes) stressful learning experience those times were! It makes for a fun and memorable experience for the student. A great example of this is at a local university here in Tampa — The University of South Florida. Others might be amazing bakers and sell their treats alongside the artists.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

And that's just the fun stuff. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help. Right now, we have monthly family art activities. Board committee meetings. Family days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." For crafting activities, putting out a small number of materials encourages people to use sparingly and respectfully. Put out seating for two or more with every activity, unless it's something incredibly personal. It's just fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Happening Couch.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

And with the influx of 100+ people moving here on a daily basis , it’s a good thing the locals continue to remind everyone to “ Keep Austin Weird. Well, in some pretty big ways if you talk to the team at Thinkery , who just created Thinkery21 , an evening of fun created just for this demographic.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We scrounged for free couches.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. You’ll want people to sign up, potentially pay a registration fee, set an activity goal , and have a date and time where everyone runs at the same time on their own.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Nowadays, Pride Month is celebrated all around the world with parades, educational events, and other activities aimed at raising awareness of LGBTQ+ rights and fostering a sense of equality, acceptance, and love for everyone. You can invite guest speakers, screen documentaries, or hold workshops to promote understanding and inclusivity.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Recognize your donors while engaging your board with a pressure free activity. Find a Board member that will champion the activity and challenge other members to participate. Bottom line: it was a fun additional touch point with many donors in a short period of time! Is it an invitation to join the fun? Is it this?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

March 2-6, four women arts activists ( Cris Williamson , Vicki Randle , Alix Olson and Pamela Means) will travel to New Orleans to collaborate with four local women musicians ( Asia Rainey , GaBrilla Ballard , Sunni Patterson , and Charmaine Neville ). women musician New Orleans art activism

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. a "wedding worthy" community hall).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. Photos are fun. Why did you choose this format instead of video?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Having fundraisers that happen outside of Sunday morning services helps fund important church activities. But talking extensively about church fundraising activities aside from the Sunday offering can overwhelm your members.

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