The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Identify your campaign ambassadors and create easily shareable content and stories worth sharing. It’s okay to be a little vulnerable and tell your organization’s story.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Also, with Facebook fundraising you give up the opportunity to bring donors to your website, where they will have other ways to engage with your work, such as signing up for your newsletter, reading a compelling story, and browsing through volunteer opportunities. Be direct and specific, and focus on how the donor’s gift will impact a life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples. 50 gift card for $5,000 raised). Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Provide samples of everything. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Test 3-4 new Facebook Ads: Test different ad types (promoted post, sponsored story, etc.), What are the short-term and long-term goals and objectives?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

GivingTuesday works similar to peer-to-peer fundraising by allowing constituents to tell the story of their favorite non-profit to encourage giving. Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Already hosting a fundraising event?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You may save some of these options for major donors, or sustainers, those who have given at least three years in a row, or donors who helped with a high stakes campaign like establishing a matching gift, putting the organization in their will, helping with a capital campaign or doing something else spectacular. Welcome packet. Touch the work.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . It’s closer to the gift. . But when you’ve given yourself, that gives you some power to ask for a gift from someone else.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Work-a-thons make for a great way for your congregants to raise funds while sharing their gifts with others in your community! Or a baking contest? If your town is famous for its strawberries, for example, you could consider having a contest where cooks’ recipes must feature that ingredient. But what about a BBQ cook-off?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Find more major gifts. Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. Because giving is often a sacrifice for your donors, they want to make sure you got their gift. Consider other media outreach. Up your storytelling game.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Since many of your board members are professionals in the charitable space, they likely know other high impact supporters to contact and request gifts from. Participants garner support from their friends and family leading up to the big day and accept gifts during the game itself. Then, divide your participants into teams.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

Fundraising 101 tells us that the most impassioned and successful messages are the stories that come right from the mouths of people who have shared a significant life experience with that organization. They tell their stories, recruit their friends, and use use mainstream social media tools to expand their cause.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” ” So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” So you have two choices around how to approach this contest, right? You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy. Mistake number two.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition.

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