sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

5 Million Reasons to Embrace Library Giving Day Created in 2019 by the Seattle Public Library Foundation, Library Giving Day was designed not only to increase financial support to local public libraries but also to raise awareness for the many programs local libraries provide to their communities.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Partner with a local bakery to create a basket of fresh pastries, such as donuts, croissants, cookies, and muffins. Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. Local goods basket. Help supporters meet their fitness goals with free personal training sessions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

The arts are important to modern culture and society, yet competition from other causes can encroach on the ability of your nonprofit to raise funds. The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play. For example, Ballet Lubbock used technology to support more focus on real relationship building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

We work in over 190 countries and territories with the goal of saving children’s lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfil their potential. We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You can check out programs like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Talk Away the Dark or attend a training by the American Association of Suicidology. Raise awareness Using social media to share about NSPAM is a great way to observe the month and spread awareness of suicide prevention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Seventy-five percent are women and children. Local organizations are working to provide support, training and services to these women. We need to raise an additional $10,000 through this crowd funding campaign to help bring as many women’s organizations as we can to training in Kiev in October.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It’s been about a year and a half since I starting agitating for a Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology , an initiative that will kick off by training the nonprofit data analysts of the future. One thing that is quite clear is that there is no need to create a new institution, or raise up a building with a splendid dome. (The

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Before you head out with your team of volunteer wrappers, host a training session to make sure they’ve got the folding and taping skills they need for your fundraiser. You can even reach out to your local mall to see if they’ll allow you to set up a booth so shoppers can head straight to you after they’ve made their holiday purchases.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking provides video and broadcast training to young people. The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. Children and Education.

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Qgiv

MARCH 21, 2022

How Do Hospitals Raise Funds? This will vary from hospital to hospital, but lately we’ve seen hospital foundations focus on raising dollars for COVID-19 support funds, reserve funds for future equipment needs, continuing staff education and training, emergency funds, pro-bono services, their own research efforts, and more.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Train and Excite. Her biggest allies came from her local community leaders (internal volunteers who help run the corporate programs locally), who she meets with regularly to communicate strategies, upcoming campaigns, and program goals. Mimi was bringing fresh eyes to the role and strategy of the Hearts a Bloomin’ campaign.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Borrow from political organizers to build a grassroots movement at scale by empowering supporters locally with the right messages and tools to spread your mission. Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara. It was an inspirational talk that spoke to my inner philanthropists and hopefully awakened the urge to give in my children! Last week, I attended Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen ‘s Giving 2.0 The book’s message is simple.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Set fundraising targets Use your organization’s budget to determine generally how much you need to raise to achieve your philanthropic goals. Stakeholders might raise the alarm if your fundraising amount is too drastically different from last year or if you’re relying on strategies that have been ineffective in the past.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. It provides policy analysis and advocacy, institutional organizing, training development, and strategic communications. It is a unified voice of more than 140 organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. We raised $6,158 from 157 donors! This is my 7th personal fundraising campaign using social media tools to help the children of Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

But the winner was a story about stepping out an organization’s comfort zone to try to avoid repeating past mistakes. The winner is Heartland Pride and here’s their story: Little Bet: After years of having a local organization that planned pride in the Midwest fail numerous times, our organization was formed. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. In the past year, Childreach International has impacted the lives of over 70,000 children.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. Santa Fe Community Foundation. Alaska Conservation Foundation. The Green Climate Fun. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From brainstorming new fundraising ideas to reaching out to prospective donors, nonprofits use much of their team members’ time to figure out how to raise more money. Community Grants Some companies offer community grants to help out local nonprofits in need. Which Companies Offer Corporate Giving Programs?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. She began delivering pajamas and books to children in shelters after a little girl asked her what pajamas were. Julia Campbell. Chantal Sheehan.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. Fast forward to 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2013

The ASU Lodestar Center offers board governance training. She really only needed volunteers to help her raise money, anyway. By having more local leaders she would increase not only total funds to her organization, but higher visibility as well. John and his wife Sheila have three children, and live in north Phoenix.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. The process can be daunting — even inexplicable.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Onsite Training. By offering a training opportunity, your organization shows that you are invested in their fundraising success. Valencia College Foundation invited their FirstONE campaign team captains to train at a campus computer lab where they registered, created a fundraising page, and learned how to use the online tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Remember the car?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer. And $10,000 was raised to send more kids to camp this summer. Pretty cool, right? Novak of The Office. Prepare for #GivingTuesday Ahead of Time.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Set up “Review Parties” to make it a social undertaking – but be sure to train your team to use common naming conventions. Worked hard to unite their local media and the corporate sponsors they recruited towards a common purpose – including some local banks and TV stations getting involved. In addition to the above, they also….

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Our BigTech program is run by our local partner, the NASSCOM Foundation in India. The campaign gave exposure to 168 NGOs and raised 125,000 rupees in addition to in-kind donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

Here's the summary of what they do: Founded in 1982, Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is a worldwide children’s medical charity whose network of global volunteers are dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. According to a recent research survey of UK/US teenagers , 26% have raised money for a cause and 32% have donated their own money (or allowances.). And they are already blowing us away.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She was a pioneer of the Eagles Care program, which partners the Eagles with local nonprofits to make a lasting difference in the Philadelphia community. Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Epic Change uses their donations to provide interest-free loans to local partners to finance their community improvement efforts. Not For Sale Campaign: 27 million people in slavery worldwide today, over 50% of them children. Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

She earns a monthly wage working for a sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Sharing Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or get a better paying job in Cambodia???s This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Here are some scenarios in which peer-to-peer fundraising could benefit your faith-based organization: Help raise money and awareness for an upcoming project. The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip.

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