NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Being part of a team is simply more fun than participating alone. Nonprofits need to do their part, though, to make teams fun. Create team-specific communications and contests. You may also want to give separate prizes for corporate teams, an important audience for increasing participation.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Similarly, working with businesses for your end-of-year giving campaign can open doors to new audiences and resources. Interactive content , such as polls, live Q&A sessions, or countdown posts, can further engage your audience. Here are our tips on promoting your matching gift to your audience.

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TechImpact

APRIL 22, 2014

Focus content to audience and your nonprofit’s objectives. While utilizing images, infographics, and visuals, ensure your content is inline with both your nonprofit’s goals and your audience’s expectation. your target audience will only view your content if it is filling a pre-existing need. Start a hashtag contest.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

The San Diego Zoo understands that their presence on Facebook matters so they take time to build their fan base, engage their audience and have fun with their community. Creating interesting contest. Here are 5 things they do well on their Facebook page: Sharing interesting content. Connect with their loyal fans.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2021

A golf event management platform and corresponding website for your event makes it easy to build and advertise custom sponsorship packages, which should be tailored to the audience your event will attract. 6) Live-Score the Tournament. They’re also a great sponsorship opportunity with a ton of exposure that can be sold at a premium.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2024

To stand out in the fundraising world, you need to find engaging gala entertainment ideas to captivate your audience and motivate them to continue their relationship with your nonprofit. A gala event provides your organization a way to showcase the work you do to different audiences and can even attract media attention.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Games with incentives or prizes can allow your audience members to display their talents and vote for those who perform the game the best! Just like games, contests are virtual event ideas that can get people talking. Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. .

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Whether you’re a freelancer, content outlet, or brand of product/service, email marketing can prove to be an effective means of reaching your audience of stakeholders, customers or media contacts. This is a chance to create a connection between the brand and its audience, and build value over time. When should you use email marketing?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When you’re planning your end-of-year fundraising campaigns, you really won’t want to miss out on all the fun the holidays provide. And if you commit to joining in on the spooky festivities, you can also develop some frighteningly fun fundraiser ideas your horror buff donors will love. Ghost story contest. Fall carnival.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Instead of limiting connection and engagement, a virtual fundraising event can strike all the right notes with a target audience while helping the fundraising efforts reach a greater number of people. . However you decide to organize the event, consider these fun virtual holiday fundraising ideas: Virtual Holiday Fundraiser Ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The content we presented went from high level overview to on the ground practice, with each chunk punctuated with an interactive exercise with the audience that allowed them to share insights with another people in the room. We did a fun icebreaker having folks take a photo of each other with their smart phones and post on Twitter.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Successful event marketing starts with knowing how to reach your target audience. For most event coordinators, one of the best places to reach their target audience is Instagram. With over 2 billion active monthly users , you can connect with a broader audience there by sharing engaging posts. Build suspense for the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

It was fun to feature local participants as living case studies. Here’s an example from the Food Bank of Monterey County , a Lucile and David Packard Grantee that I’m coaching this year. What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners” are the people who are served by the Food Bank.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience. Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: Gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Use these strategies to design a successful livestream program: Build excitement to a main feature, cultivate a fun and entertaining environment, crowd-source content and establish a personal and emotional connection to the cause. Audience Participation. Reaction videos are another wonderful way to bring fun and excitement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Gina’s post suggests that QR codes could be just a fad–unless Facebook introduces them to a mainstream audience. While there are some tactical points to keep in mind when using QR codes, nonprofits should consider these design principles: Can you use QR codes to encourage audiences to get more information online?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But how do you make your virtual gala events fun and engaging? During a virtual gala, participants can livestream their own participation or watch the event from the comfort of home without broadcasting their own fun. The event theme you choose can be relevant to your nonprofit or just a fun theme that resonates with your audience.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Fun things to include in your in-person event are public shout-outs! Hybrid events are on the rise, and m any of them now have the choice to attend in-person or online, and it also increases accessibility and your public audience.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

That’s what keeps things fun and engaging! But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Schedule those posts then wait for the fun. What’s Your Audience Interested in? When planning content for your social media platforms, think first about your audience.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Adding some fun to your event never hurt anyone. Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Examples include text-to-give campaigns, merchandise fundraisers, and virtual contests. As a type of peer-to-peer fundraising , these campaigns have the potential to reach new audiences while also securing donations. There are countless ways to implement contests into your fundraising strategy. Educational nonprofits.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Peer-to-peer fundraising—individuals raising money for a cause with the help of their family and friends—is a fun, easy, and lucrative strategy to attract awareness and generate funds for your cause. Bowl-a-Thon This is a popular way to get teams together for friendly competition in a fun social environment.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

It takes thorough, effective planning to create a holiday fundraiser, find the volunteers to make it happen, and get your message in front of the right audience. Ensure it aligns with how your audience views the holiday. The cost of a small prize for the winner will be well worth the attention the contest draws to your campaign.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The interactive session be a fun, entertaining way to learn from nonprofit social media practitioners — sages with gauges who want social good to “ruler&# the universe for a good cause! Targeted for Beginner to Intermediate audiences. –> Vote Now ! Better Nonprofit Websites: 52 Tweaks in 52 Weeks.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, perhaps you’ve noticed your online engagement metrics are declining, and you’re looking for fresh ways to engage with your audience. . With a strong digital communication strategy, you can keep online donations flowing while engaging new audience members, too. Online contests or challenges. engage with donors online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. We tweak and readjust along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

To get started, develop a social media strategy that includes goals, target audience, and key messages. A fun way to engage potential volunteers is to run a promotion where people can enter to win prizes for volunteering their time or services. Be sure to post regularly and interact with people who express interest in volunteering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fun, Games, and Giveaways! Fun is almost always engaging, especially humorous photos, articles, and observations. It has to resonate with your audience and connect back to your school experience. What’s more fun than a color war on Facebook? But make them fun too. Example of Game and Giveaway on Facebook.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. This way, even individuals who don’t compete in the event can still support the cause.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Get a selection of your breakfast favorites and a variety of milks — make it extra fun with a pajama party vibe for your supporters. Enroll Now.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 21, 2025

But what kind of fundraisers are fun and engaging for teams? Races (Like Fun Runs or Serious 5Ks) For the fitness-minded in your community, running races like 5Ks or fun runs as a team is a classic way to raise funds. Want to put the fun in Fun Run? Family Fun Walk Families make a great fundraising team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Who is our audience and who do we want them to be?” We haven’t launched a major social media campaign since our brainstorming session but are planning to develop a measurement pilot the next time we execute our semi-annual cartoon caption contest or a Facebook campaign involving one of our legal cases. What prep did you do?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Dig deeper and that seemingly one-dimensional SMS becomes a truly interactive medium of push and pull to deliver information, tips, coupons, alerts and rewards, or engross consumers with karaoke, contests, surveys, and trivia. SMS performs better than its email marketing counterpart.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Are you looking for a fun, active, and impactful event option to raise money for your favorite cause? Format Fun Choose singles or doubles play, round robin or knockout tournaments,mixed genders or specific divisions. Cater to different skill levels to attract a wider audience. This will guide your format and budget.

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