NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

Yet, finding the optimal timing for appeals can be challenging. Here are some key opportunities: National holidays and awareness days: Tailor your fundraising appeals to align with national holidays or awareness days relevant to your cause.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This strategy has already seen great success in the PC and console gaming worlds; last year, game-centric organizations like Extra Life , Child’s Play and Humble Bundle each brought in millions of dollars in donations while raising awareness for children’s hospitals, HIV/AIDS prevention, cancer research, and more.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the midst of changing technology and trends , one of the best ways to boost awareness for your cause, deepen donor relationships, and increase reach (and proceeds) for your mission is peer-to-peer fundraising. In many nonprofits, staffing and resources are constant challenges.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 31, 2024

First, it eliminated the need to build awareness from scratch since they were tapping into a widely recognized holiday. These periods—such as holiday seasons, community celebrations, or shared challenges—create windows of increased empathy and giving potential.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This advice from Rick Shadyac, President of ALSAC , the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 60 years ago. Childhood cancer is a global, multi-trillion dollar, multi-year problem. Jude partner.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences. © — PA Breast Cancer Coalition. Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) exemplifies the power of strategic guest list curation. By focusing on a dedicated group of cyclists who are passionate about supporting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, PMC has consistently achieved remarkable fundraising success. The PMC’s impact extends beyond mere numbers. Identify key supporters.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day? Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. At the very least, breast cancer nonprofits could have quickly jumped in and leveraged this opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Last December, Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. " This relates to three challenges identified by Jeremiah: Successful Networks have hard time scaling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nonprofits do critical work in their communities and around the world and, in so doing, build the awareness of their brands to scale their impact. In a positive sense these social entrepreneurs, startups and large companies are bringing much needed expertise, resources and reach to critical social challenges.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Breast Cancer has impacted my family, like many others, and I grew up participating in Komen’s Race for the Cure in Portland every year with my mom. The first time, the effort split in two; with one group focused on fundraising and another on advocacy and awareness. The second, a faction chose to opt out of the Super Bowl effort.

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Nucleus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This awareness also means that there are, in effect, no more “one off” projects in IT, no isolated decisions within departments to begin using new software or apps without a quick conversation about potential impact on data and data quality. This awareness sets a solid foundation and progress may begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order. Utilize YouTube Annotations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

We believe whole-heartedly that we are up to any challenge, and we become remarkably resilient in the face of failure." 57,000 gamers have outperformed supercomputers in the task of folding proteins in new ways that could lead scientists to cures for Alzheimer's, cancer and more. Purpose: Fundraising, awareness-building.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

World champion Chaunté Lowe, sharing the inspiring story of her victories as an Olympian and American Record holder, as well as a breast cancer survivor. She’s used her personal experiences to raise awareness of triple negative breast cancer, driving research, early detection, and eradication.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2014

An example of excellent brand identity execution is the awareness campaign for breast cancer. Remember when your news feed was doused in videos from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge ? ALS was genuine on an issue and created awareness. They didn’t guilt people into donating to their cause, because guilt doesn’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

It was then that I first worked with partners like (RED) that were just starting to use Facebook to build awareness around their various campaigns and initiatives. In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I worked with a number of different clients, including nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Which is why Twestival Local hopes to challenge city organizers with two important questions with their selected cause: (1) What will the not-for-profit do with the funds raised? . It is my hope that with Twestival Local, even nominated causes which aren’t selected as a final recipient feel an impact in awareness. .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But they are all united in pushing the consumer discourse through design and challenging the status quo to make the world betteror, at least, make it a little more brat. Brand awareness jumped 25% in the first three months after release. One landmark project will begin construction in March.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

Yes, I went there – that’s what I’m reminded of when I see the posts about how you’re not really helping when you take the Ice Bucket Challenge. Personally, I think the criticism stems from jealousy and thoughts like “ why didn’t I think of the ice bucket challenge?” The Ice Bucket Challenge did its job.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is increasingly important now, at a time when companies are being challenged to make tough choices and corporate social responsibility is top of mind. IBM connects purpose-driven innovation to the market through its Smarter Cities challenge, which invites governments to submit thorny environmental, social, or infrastructural challenges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

One of the greatest challenges facing nonprofit organizations is garnering volunteers and, more importantly, the right kind of individuals. While setting up an awareness concert to raise money for cancer, the Garage grouped high school students from different locations. Garage Community & Youth Center. will keep costs low.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Fifty-one percent of Americans reported mental health challenges at work since COVID-19 began, and 30% are fearful to report their mental health struggles to their employer. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. Miles Orkin, National Director for Mobile and Web forAmerican Cancer Society Fundraising Focus: Mobile. Over and over again.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

There are 40 million people prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines each year, many like Asar’s wife, after surgery or in conjunction with cancer treatment to address acute and chronic pain as well as co-occurring mental health challenges, he told TechCrunch.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

I have been both a board member and a professional fundraiser for a nonprofit, so I understand the challenge from both sides. When you ask , you’re not asking for yourself “but for Maria, a trafficking victim; Alan, a homeless veteran; Rover, an abandoned dog; or Aiden, a student with cancer.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Finding special ways to thank donors for their recurring donations is crucial to a strong stewardship strategy, but identifying perks or incentives that truly excite your donors can be challenging. Bright Pink helps save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Movember is a "moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health.” All proceeds raised during Movember go to the causes it supports, specifically the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG (read this article if you’d like to learn more about where the money goes ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Agility is more important than ever, and modernizing our sector is critical to achieving our missions and addressing the world’s biggest challenges. ALSAC , the fundraising and awareness organization for St. If you don’t reinvent yourself, somebody else will do it for you, and you’ll lose leadership.”. David Jacques, CIO, ALSAC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s widely known that red meat consumption is associated with an elevated risk for cancer, whereas fewer people are aware of the PCBs, dioxins and mercury that appear in some salmon because of the food the salmon have ingested. “In the end,” says Kolbeck, “we’ll have a very affordable and accessible product.

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Classy

APRIL 7, 2021

World Bicycle Relief is committed to helping people conquer the challenge of distance, achieve independence, and thrive in developing regions of the world. HEADstrong Foundation encourages DIY fundraising through creative campaigns like Riding aHead of Cancer. Tie Your Virtual Event to a Global Cause Awareness Day.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises. “And

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. The Testicular Cancer Foundation’s Beard Patrol campaign has got No-Shave November down. Today, it’s a household name.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

winner Raf Bauer, inspired by the loss of his mother to cancer and compelled to advance research and treatment, is setting out on a 350km walk across Scotland to raise awareness and funds for Target Ovarian Cancer. (Please visit the site to view this video). Change Agent Award. Please visit the site to view this video).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Lisa Narodick Colton , See3 , is working with a group of homeless organizations to increase awareness about issues and feel grateful for what they have. The National Brain Tumor Society has a guest blog post from a cancer survivor with an unselfie, encouraging people to take part in the campaign. Are you taking part in #GivingTuesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. He shared a campaign called Testi-monials , created by FCB Cape Town for CANSA which is setting out to remove the awkwardness around talking about testicular cancer, and drive awareness about “how important it is that men not only talk balls but take care of them too.”

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