Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

As part of my 100 Letters for the Last 100 Days of 2011 project, I've been making cards with my own photos. Look through your calendar and make a list of friends, family and co-workers whose birthdays are in November. Collect your photos. I printed mine with Kodak Photo Gallery. Add photos to your cards.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

One raw material I have more than enough to work with is photos, so today I'm brainstorming holiday gifts to make with them. All photos are by me (: Tweet

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

Donors find the idea of winning a coveted prize to be exciting, fun and new, and nonprofits have an opportunity to expand their reach beyond an existing donor base to a broad audience that cares about the cause. In this scenario, you can get very targeted with your prize, and have fun catering to your members’ preferences!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Getting an idea about the kinds of things you could post and the people who will post it will help you select the most appropriate platform to use and create an editorial/content calendar.

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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. Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. Don’t let this term scare you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Organically promote your Shop on social media by taking photos and videos of each item, ideally showing them in use in an authentic manner. Cross-channel promotion and syncing up your email, website and other marketing channels with your social media calendars is recommended for Shop promotions. Tag your products in Stories and Posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

We may even have some fun in store for you! The Beacon Lounge will be our home-base, and here are some of the fun things they have planned to make it your home-base, too: Daily Events in the Lounge include: Breakfast from 9-11: Get your morning buzz on with coffee and food sponsored by The Colorado Health Foundation. Connect with NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app. The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match. Not only did they take repeated photos to see what breed of dog would match their photo, they also started to ask if we could adopt a dog. Increase post sharability.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.) And the funny thing about using Windows is that I have now noticed how much work I used to have to do to make sure things were going to work with my Mac.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Sharing photos from reunions or Alumni meetups on campus is another way to make that connection like this Twitter example above from Ramah Seminar.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Time-block your week with an online calendar. Using an online calendar like Google Calendar can be great for planning out your time because you can see your day, week, or month at a glance, and access it from either your desktop or mobile device. The real benefit of using a calendar is block scheduling. Watch this 6.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You might think that organizing your ideas in this way may take out all the fun and spontaneity or that if your organization is a small shop, it is overkill. Editorial calendars can also be useful beyond tracking and planning for blog posts as this useful post from Michele Linn points outs. Add the ideas of your editorial calendar.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . One fun way to organize this in this transitional year (with not everyone ready to join others inside) is via a Zoom call with volunteers. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 5, 2023

An annual awareness calendar can offer your nonprofit lots of great promotional ideas throughout the year. Spend some time looking through all the awareness day events throughout the year by using a 2023 awareness day calendar. Make your awareness day outreach fun and engaging by adding a digital experience or physical experience.

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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. Casual Fridays or “Fun Fridays” Encourage staff to ask for help. Do fun icebreakers at meetings and other team building activities. Mission moments – photos, videos, make them visible. Here’s the list: Function.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

JANUARY 3, 2018

It can be used to manage everything from your editorial calendar (as we did) to your upcoming gala or giving season promotion efforts. Every time I recommend it to a friend or collegue, they come back telling me how much fun they have on there. Photo editor. Best tool for graphic design: Canva. Image source: FSBO Education.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your fundraising plan should include a detailed activities calendar showing all the various ways you plan to generate funds during the year. Again, there are times when transactional fundraisers are fun and can fit into your overall fundraising plan. Make it a FUN event that people talk about for days afterward.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. Additions: Photos, email notifications, email blasts, and calendaring features. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget. Hosting: Online.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 20, 2024

Instagram isn’t just a platform for selfies and dinner photos. Enhance Photos with Simple Edits Even if you’re using a smartphone, a few quick edits can elevate your photos. Create Graphics Using Canva Canva for Nonprofits is a powerful tool to create visually appealing graphics when you’re low on photos.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

eCards are electronic greeting cards that include fun, attention-grabbing visuals and a personalized message. This is a fun spin on the classic donor thank-you email that will help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd. Thank-you emails are a staple of most nonprofits’ appreciation strategies, and you can elevate yours with eCards.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

This can be a fun way to engage your volunteers and remind them of a fun memory whenever they wear their masks! Books You can design a short photo book related to your mission. Framed photos This could be a group shot of all the volunteers or an individual portrait of each volunteer. Some even use tote bags as a purse!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We have our clients use a calendar so they can color code their Asks, Warm Touches, and Communications to make sure donors aren’t being overasked. Stock up on photos and stories of the lives you are changing. Get the right photo or illustration to go with the story. Just for fun, here’s an extra strategy!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

We may even have some fun in store for you! NTEN Meetup in the Beacon Lounge Mark your calendars for Monday, March 12th, at 11 am for the NTEN meetup in the Lounge. We hope we're easy to find: we will be using the Beacon Lounge as our go-to, chill-out, home-base spot throughout the conference.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Your supporters will sense when you’re having fun with your digital outreach methods rather than using them to mechanically promote your organization. . Your supporters’ attention spans are constantly being pulled in different directions and they may not see the value in adding your organization’s digital events to their busy calendars. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

With so much on the agenda for the NTC, here's how you can add it to your favorite calendar. Don't forget to upload all your NTC photos to Flickr and tag them "08NTC" - and then visit the online photo album. Looking forward to having fun in New Orleans! Find out more.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Animal lovers PETA does a great job of marketing its gift membership , which includes a 12-month calendar, a one-year subscription to their colorful and informative magazine, PETA Global, an exclusive discount on items in the PETA Shop, and the joy of knowing recipients are saving animals. It’s more than just a membership—it’s an experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Some of my time has to go to regular 'expenses,' some of my time is an 'investment' that will pay off later, and some of it is just for fun. Flickr Photo of Aztec Calendar at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City uploaded by Michael McCarty. Like any budget, I'll have to make adjustments as I go along. Tweet Share.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. Choose a photo from the map or gallery to learn about the architecture, the context behind the image, and related anecdotes from St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Louis’ storied past.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

We rely on friends just like you to help us feed our community’s veterans.” …along with a nice photo Which one would make you feel great about the gift you just made? You’ll need a Donor Communications Plan that includes: Editorial Calendar for your newsletter, identifying heart-warming stories you can share each month.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By now, GivingTuesday has become a fixture on nonprofit calendars, inspiring generosity worldwide. Visuals are key here—use photos, videos, and infographics to make your posts stand out. You can also add fun incentives, like donor recognition opportunities or exclusive perks for giving at certain levels.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In Dearest Donors: A Love Letter we talked about the importance of thanking your donors, reaching out to them (and not just when you want money), and creating a donor retention calendar. Use captivating photos, be creative, and feel free to have fun when sharing these moments. You need to show them that you care right back.

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