Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Consequently, I was pretty excited when the Alliance for Biking and Walking asked me to spread the word about their People Powered Movement Photo Contest. The Alliance for Biking and Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations. bike walk advocacy nonprofit photgraphy contest

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

After Copenhagen: Turning Activism Into Impact – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – There's a great guest post up today from Michael Silberman on the Frogloop blog: "Going to the U.N. " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!

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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

AUGUST 24, 2012

" Direct Energy | Direct Energy Contest | Reduce Your Use for GoodReduce Your Use – "Nonprofits, you know it: small changes can make a big difference. While not scientific, the survey offers some interesting insights and we highlighted the key findings in our presentation (included in the slides below and online here).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Machinima with Issues Engaging and provocative uses of machinima as art, advocacy, and evidence will be presented and discussed. Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Check this out.

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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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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s advocacy tools help organizations worldwide advance their causes and mobilize new supporters. ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests. Change.org :: change.org. Issuu :: issuu.com. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com. Event Management.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Took action on important advocacy actions when we talked about them on social media. Shared our advocacy actions with their friends and colleagues on social networks. Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. Looked to us as an authority on climate change across social media.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals. If you are working on an advocacy campaign, is an important legislative bill about to be passed or is it in danger of not being passed. Tell them how they are making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge !

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The same goes for advocacy.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The same goes for advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Forum One

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights. Jeremy Ames who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Environments Division, will speak about their Radon Video Contest -- the first video contest run by the federal government.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Advocacy and professional associations thrive on them. Hold a recruitment contest with special perks for current members and recognition for when they recruit new members. Nonprofit membership models are all around us. Culture, arts, and environmental organizations live and breathe memberships. What is a membership model?

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2011

That action doesn’t always have to be a financial transaction or advocacy alert. It could be asking to take a poll, survey, participate in a contest, or help spread the word for your organization. Never send an email message or enewsletter without a call to action. No Follow-Up. Email campaigns are never one-and-done.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

Small Non-Profit Uses Social Media Win Online Fundraising Contest :: PNNOnline ::: "Critical Exposure, a small D.C.-based

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

See the full contest website to learn more about the competition, presented by Invest Early , to gather and share stories about the importance of interactions and learning opportunities for babies and young children. TechSoup is proud to partner with the William K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Over the past year, large corporate brands have embraced Facebook apps from companies like Wildfire (purchased by Google), Buddy Media , (now part of Salesforce) and WooBox, for things like coupons, sweepstakes, and contests. Others have spent tens of thousands of dollars to build custom Facebook apps from scratch. These are powerful tools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2017

The contest opens on September 5, and closes on October 31, 2017. Whether the goal is advocacy, fundraising, or a combination of things, the ability to tell your organization's story and compete in the digital space is critical. And so, each time we do it, our Storymakers campaign gets bigger, better, and stronger.

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NTEN

JANUARY 7, 2009

Now, they're smack-dab in the middle of the Ideas for Change contest , which they're running with the Case Foundation. . Inspired by the President-Elect's call for citizens to share their ideas for creating change, the contest drew nearly 8,000 ideas for change from community members. Tags: NPTech Advocacy change.org case.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in prizes. Civil Society, Advocacy, and Fundraising. June 1, 2016 — Contest closes and judging begins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

advocacy and leveraging the social community there: Starbucks Campaign. I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Civil Society, Advocacy, and Fundraising. Learn more. Get started.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

Hardly a month goes by when I don’t find myself impressed by one of WCS’ advocacy or fundraising campaigns. In April, they took advantage of national press about an Egyptian Cobra that went missing at their reptile house (and was later recovered) by holding a naming contest for her.

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Care2

MARCH 31, 2010

Mobilize an army of e-activists to win advocacy victories for your cause (while building your own army)? Or to vote for you in a contest? Care2 members donate many millions of dollars to charity and help nonprofits win hundreds of major advocacy victories for important causes every year -- locally, nationally and internationally.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The NTEN staff are great at posting the latest updates about sessions, coffee replenishment and fun contests. Yesenia has worked for nonprofits since 2001 in technology, development, communications and advocacy. Bonus tip: the hashtag for the conference is #11ntc.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Their mission is to enrich the lives of individuals of all beliefs, with cognitive or developmental disabilities, by fostering independence, inclusion, and self-advocacy. Advocacy and Volunteering. They invite the public to join their grassroots advocacy team with a goal of helping to shape public policy and improve all lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. . - GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) and externally (with all of your fine readers!). So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2013

Some call social media shares vanity metrics because they have turned into such a popularity contest. What video’s get the most views? What white papers are downloaded the most? Are people sharing your content? However, it’s still worth looking at these metrics to see how people are sharing your content.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The theme of this year’s contest is From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place. The finalists will be shown on www.DoGooder.tv

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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