Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2008

But before we get back to delivering IT projects on time, let's look at some funny pictures. The idea is to create your own caption for one of the seal pictures. A panel of celebrity judges will announce a winner, who will take home a bunch of great HSUS seal gear. Take a peak. And it happens every year.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s the perfect way to celebrate Pride Month in the US for LGBTQIA-focused organizations — the Charleston-based We Are Family hosted one last year to fund its new drop-in center. Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you probably know a little bit about the importance of this holiday celebrating generosity. Photo Contest. Another option is to sell branded merchandise before the campaign, then ask supporters to sport their t-shirts on Giving Tuesday and snap a picture for social media. Text-to-Give.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Halloween Costume Contest. Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is another great contest idea that can get people engaged and excited about your cause. You could even have an after-party where people can celebrate their newly undead status with some spooky snacks and drinks. Haunted house donation admission. Halloween bake sale.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Need some inspiration for your holiday fundraising celebrations? When the holidays roll around, expand your giving day to celebrate the holidays with your supporters. An “8 Days of Giving” campaign is perfect for those who celebrate Hanukkah. Pictures with Santa. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Gift wrapping.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Volunteer appreciation gifts help show volunteers that your organization celebrates their hard work and recognizes their efforts. You can incorporate pictures of your volunteers and their roles, and even team pictures for your volunteers to keep and look back on! If you’re brainstorming some gift ideas, we’re here to help!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Round up a few teachers or partner with a local celebrity and have them go up against each other with video games like Among Us or World of Warcraft. Sports tricks contest. Give artists in your community a chance to submit their own designs for your next team shirt and turn it into a contest. Gaming fundraiser.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. Include Board members in big-picture discussions, but not in the details, unless they plan to help in a volunteer capacity. Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Created by 92nd Street Y , a cultural center in New York City focused on bringing people together around the values of giving back, #GivingTuesday is now a global movement that connects individuals, communities, and organizations around the world to celebrate and encourage giving. Celebrate generosity with [insert org]. Crowdfunding.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This will help your content marketing efforts paint a better picture of how your organization helps to meet your constituents’ needs. Each June, we celebrate “Scleroderma Awareness Month” and work with our supporters to spread the word about this rare, autoimmune illness. Think Outside the Box.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Encourage your participants to create dance teams and host contests to see who can come up with the most fun routines. Ask your participants to share their favorite recipes on their individual peer-to-peer fundraising pages and post pictures of their completed dishes. They can try other people’s recipes or stick to their own.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

You can start the challenge early in December and then end the event with a live stream that celebrates all involved, highlighting those who exceeded certain contribution points. . Online Voting Contest. Virtual fundraising challenges are easy and convenient ways to raise money for your holiday fundraiser. Holiday Charity Live Stream.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

Inspired by the car parades that have brought joy to so many during these times of social distancing, we are offering this option to convene our community, while safely spread apart, as we hit the road to celebrate together.” Some events are seeing significant demand and as a result have required RSVPs and car-based fundraising minimums.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” Emily and Joe recommend to begin with planning before you ever look at your data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. NPTech Contests and Awards. The Big Picture. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Pet photo contest – Everyone loves looking at adorable animals and showing off their pets. With a pet photo contest, ask supporters to submit photos of their furry friends beforehand.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During a school event like a carnival or back-to-school celebration, run a booth where students can pay to have the opportunity to pie the principal in the face or dunk their teachers in a dunk tank. Pictures with Santa. Costume contest. Cookie-decorating contest.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures. Supporter/Volunteer Spotlights Celebrate and recognize the individuals who support your nonprofit’s work by featuring spotlights on them.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Your alumni post on Facebook, addictively scroll through Instagram and celebrate their marriages with custom hashtags; having a social strategy for homecoming helps you find them where they are. Their pictures, opinions, and snapshots of the day offer an authentic view of your homecoming that the official social media presence cannot.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

In particular, DIY fundraisers are popular for those who want to celebrate something or garner support, but instead of the support directed at them, it’s for a cause they care deeply about. To encourage additional support, your fundraisers should post any progress updates or pictures on their dedicated donation page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Celebrate big donations or interesting blogs. We have some great ideas for how to use the money, including the forthcoming Code for Canada contest and an initiative to get computer science students to develop transparency applications. (or in our case, “someone just bought the country a round.”) Keep people updated. The results.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Actually in 2015, I won the #CastMeMarc Instagram contest where I was one of 11 people chosen out of over 750,000 people to be the face of Marc by Marc Jacobs, and I was on billboards all over the world, I was in magazines, I was on shopping bags. It doesn’t capture your relative value of celebrity. You were a freelance model?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. I tried to picture a time before Jen Oleniczak Brown's museum improv company, Engaging Educator , as well as the aforementioned Jen, Mike Murawski, as well as Rachel Ropeik , and PJ Gubatina Policarpio 's GalleryThrowdowns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Connections: Relationships to lawmakers, celebrities, newsrooms. For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

As many of you know, I celebrated a milestone birthday this month. To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

He’s a dog lover too – so I could not resist. When I celebrated by big 50th Birthday in 2007, I held social media birthday card contest. You can share the experience, either by taking a picture of cookies or telling the story or just sending a tweet, instagram, etc using tag #cookielove.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Giveaways and contests Contests and giveaways will drive action. Release over time so users can see the full picture (literally) as it comes together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. View more presentations.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes. Giveaways and contests Contests and giveaways will drive action. Release over time so users can see the full picture (literally) as it comes together.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Credit: Trans-Radial Pictures / Kobal / Shutterstock.com Returning to his love of a wacky heist, Ocean's Eleven helmer Steven Soderbergh delivers fresh thrills and laughs with this 2017 gem, which is absolutely stacked with a dazzling cast. And we've made singling it out all the easier by highlighting the most hilarious below. — K.P.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

She was the recent winner of my son's Green Geek Charity Contest and we contributed a small amount to the charity of her choice, SOS Children's Villages. Joan sent us a note tonight thanking us, but also letting us know of a terrible natural disaster in her country: Hey Harry and Beth, I just celebrated my 26th birthday today!

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Webby Award for Best Use Of Photography : Every Body Has a Story by ESPN.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 20, 2025

The baking contestants are brought onto the show specifically because of how outrageously untalented they are, and in the good spirit of camaraderie, we're all invited to openly mock their trainwreck concoctions once they’re unceremoniously unveiled. That's why Nailed It!, now seven seasons strong, has always been more my speed.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Credit: Sony Pictures In 2018, we got what remains one of the best superhero movies of all time with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This is the case for this outrageous offering, which stars Jack Black as infamous scammer /local celebrity Jan Lewan. Even on the small screen, you'll be in awe.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

Of course, history is contested. For example, in my own research, I found that Prohibition-era school boards in the 1920s argued over whether it was appropriate for history textbooks to include pictures of soldiers drinking to illustrate the 1791 Whiskey Rebellion.

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