CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar , it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan —and stick to it. Specific: Have a set number or level you want to reach, such as dollars raised, volunteers mobilized, etc. Use the SMART Goal setting strategy to craft your fundraising goal.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Or the two most famous Habitat Heroes: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter , who even into their 90s still volunteered at Habitat? Habitat for Humanity stands alone in having the world’s oldest living president and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Jimmy Carter as a longtime volunteer of over 30 years. Habitat volunteers are the lifeblood of your work.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. What are you waiting for?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Approximately 80% of volunteers state that they would like to be recognized or thanked by their organizations by hearing about how their work has made a difference. Your volunteers do a fantastic job in helping your nonprofit turn its dreams for a better community into reality. Let’s dive in to learn more!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Social media is known for its generous donations, enthusiastic volunteers, and passionate advocates. Match their energy by providing volunteer opportunities, hosting giving challenges, offering peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities, and encouraging community chatter. Revenue from Facebook fundraisers alone grew by 14% last year.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By now, GivingTuesday has become a fixture on nonprofit calendars, inspiring generosity worldwide. Touch base with your team and volunteers to gather their perspectives. Maybe a volunteer noticed that donors seemed most engaged with a particular theme, or your social media manager saw more traction from one platform over another.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

Providing email templates makes solicitation easier and helps save time – two common concerns of new or volunteer fundraisers. Considering only the online aspects, here is a simplified example calendar for a late August event: November: Debrief last year’s event and design next year’s website. August: Have a great event!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. The second annual GivingTuesday is on December 3rd and you''re invited to join the celebration with NTEN! Want to participate?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! Throughout the year we'll be updating this calendar with even more conferences, updated ticket prices, and event hashtags. Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2018. It's finally here! Nonprofit Management.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. A calendar of events. Celebrate Success. Volunteers join the board because they are inspired by your mission. Ask a senior volunteer to describe how the organization enriched their professional life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Add a reminder to your content calendar to publish regular posts on social platforms beyond Facebook, be sure to include frequent reminders in your email newsletters, and don’t be afraid to send an email every now and then dedicated to social fundraising, like the example below. 3) Send direct invitations to past creators.

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Greater Giving

MAY 14, 2024

Setting Up Your Thank-A-Thon Choose the Right Time Schedule your Thank-A-Thon during a slow period in your calendar, away from fundraising events. Recruit Your Thank-A-Thon Team Find volunteers with excellent phone presence who enjoy talking to people. Provide lunch and create a fun atmosphere to keep volunteers engaged.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

These public statements celebrate and highlight their involvement, making their dedication clear and showing how much they mean to the organization. When board members get their awards, the words spoken to honor them show genuine appreciation and celebrate all their hard work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. Present.me.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Celebrating National Nonprofit Day: Honoring Leaders of Change August 17th isn’t just another day on the calendar; it’s National Nonprofit Day, a day to honor and recognize the monumental contributions of nonprofit organizations across the nation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Cause.it :: cause.it. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

So why not jumpstart your fundraising from individual donors this year by adding a non-traditional giving day to your fundraising calendar? Chances are that there’s already a dedicated day for celebrating the cause you care about. 20th : Volunteer Recognition Day — #VolunteerRecognitionDay. 22nd : Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Cause.it :: cause.it. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To help you build your content plan, Neon One has created a 2024 Nonprofit Calendar that you can download as a PDF or add to your existing personal calendar. To download the calendar or learn more about nonprofit content planning, here’s a quick overview of this article: What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Work anniversary celebration, shout outs to staff, hand-written gratitude notes. Birthday cards from the board, celebrate staff birthdays at monthly staff meeting, give staff member the day off for their birthday. Sound proof the office.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. for awareness campaigns, staff and volunteer training, and creative storytelling and reporting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

By Abby Jarvise , writer, marketer, and speaker at Neon One – software built for small and midsize nonprofits to help them manage fundraising, communications, events, volunteers, and more. Donor retention is important. Then, use the settings in your online donation platform to automatically send that receipt when they give.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Have them recruit a team of volunteers and super supporters from your network. Create a PUBLIC calendar invite. Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. iCal : here is a guide for how to create your public calendar invite on iCal using the icloud login.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Look at your 12-month calendar. Pro tip: Kick off with your board giving to make sure leadership volunteers are invested in the event’s success. April: Volunteer Recognition Month Highlight the contributions of volunteers and their impact. Encourage donations in honor of volunteers. How can you start?

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Weekly Viz of the Day's Each week Tableau Public will be featuring a viz celebrating Black History Month. Community Data Visualization Challenges: The DataFam has launched a series of data challenges celebrating Black History Month. If you'd like to submit an event to the calendar, please fill out this form.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Weekly Viz of the Day's Each week Tableau Public will be featuring a viz celebrating Black History Month. Community Data Visualization Challenges: The DataFam has launched a series of data challenges celebrating Black History Month. If you'd like to submit an event to the calendar, please fill out this form.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Our volunteer-run events are live, free, and held monthly. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Douala, Cameroon: Celebre Douala en Decembre 2014. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Tuesday, December 16, 2014.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

message to send a brand new donor who just gave their first contribution or signed up to volunteer for the first time. Volunteers. Your volunteers are a great recruiting ground for new donors. Keep in mind the important holidays and celebrations that occur during the end of the year, then build out. Thanksgiving.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

You see, lots of fundraisers wear people out: you, your volunteers, and your donors. If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Celebrate those 10, and then find 10 more.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Spotlighting different traditions into your year-end outreach injects a sense of fun and wonder to a season that often can seem predictable, homogenous, and inclusive only to those who celebrate Christmas. For instance, have you considered including winter solstice celebrations in your holiday gift appeal? There are 5.4 There are 41.6

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These include: Employee matching gift programs Giving Tuesday corporate partnerships Annual giving campaigns In-kind donation drives Corporate volunteerism [and volunteer grants!] Corporate volunteerism [and volunteer grants!] And like matching gifts, many companies close their volunteer grant request windows at the end of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Use of editorial calendar. It takes time to develop a solid organizational practice in social media, so we wanted to celebrate those small victories. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process. Written social media policy. Written social media plan.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? First and foremost, fundraising plans get everyone staff, volunteers, board members, and potential donors focused and on-track to hitting your goals throughout the year. Download your free nonprofit fundraising and calendar plan here.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Mark your calendars for 2015! EveryAction compiled their list of 2015 nonprofit conferences you won''t want to miss, with a handy link to add it right into your calendar. OneJustice is profiling their inspiring volunteer Justice Bus Riders who log long hours by bus to provide legal assistance to rural communities.

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OneCause

AUGUST 22, 2024

It’s time to start planning your fall fundraising calendar. Decorate a house, get a few volunteers, and sell tickets to the public. If you’re unsure of where to start with decorations, try having volunteers dress up as zombies and scare visitors. Bonfire Organize a bonfire night and roast leftover marshmallows from summer!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Here’s a list of spring fundraising ideas to help you celebrate the season with your supporters: Spring fundraising ideas 1. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Host a trash cleanup to help out your community and encourage volunteers to engage with your organization.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are many ways you can get involved in the celebrations this month, and this week we are focused on the people and technology in fundraising and programs. Celebrate Member Appreciation Month This is your time to meet your peers in the community and celebrate, so have lots of fun (and free) things to offer!

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