Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! If you're not familiar with this cool contest, check out last year's winners. See contest details for specific eligibility requirements).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

In fact, over the past five years, MMT distributed an average $28 million per year in grants and program-related investment loans, surpassing $500 million with its most recent awards. Stamm noted that the million dollar idea challenge supplements MMT’s existing grant programs and initiatives, rather than supplanting any ongoing funding.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2010

If you haven't heard the buzz, the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest is on. Contest winners will receive a $1,000 cash grant plus their choice of one of Adobe's CS5 Premium software packages. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software Web Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Time will tell, but the contest has given us a jump start on our social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Some of you may be familiar with the ongoing Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest from this year and the last. Tell your story and possibly win a $5000 cash grant plus more than $25000 in donated Microsoft products. You may have submitted your entries and you may have even been one of the winners. Stay tuned for more!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Now that submissions have been closed for this year's Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest , it's time to give your two cents and vote for your favorite submissions ! Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Running Your Organization Software Web Building. Which designs do you like best? You tell us!

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you've got free time and some design chops, you may want to consider entering their Design for Change contest; if you have mutton chops, you may want to consider shaving. In addition, the chapter that submits the most individual entries will receive a service grant and an assortment of AmeriCorps Alums merchandise.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2010

Adobe and TechSoup Global are delighted to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Show Your Impact Design Contest ! Your submission could win your organization a $1,000 cash grant, plus your choice of one of Adobe's Creative Suite Premium software packages. See the contest details for specific eligibility requirements.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. Haiku's may be submitted on three different platforms: 1. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 1.

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2010

This year, See3, NTEN and YouTube received over 750 submissions for the contest - a record! Head over to YouTube and: The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation , plus custom designed Flip Video cameras to all finalists.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. Got Your Listening Ears On by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Google Reader Listening Non-Profit social media Social Media Monitoring Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools Twitter YouTube.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Your chance to win grants, prizes, and exposure for your nonprofit. The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. Tags: nptechtagsummary. Projects working in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2010

We just ran our Adobe Show Your Impact Design Contest for 2010 at TechSoup, and while there are some great and deserving winners of the contest which will each get a $1,000 cash grant plus a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Premium for their organization, there are also some other great entries worth mentioning.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

When you have to prepare the annual budget, oversee the programs, and write the grants, the investment of time required to make social media work seems unrealistic. It only enters one social media contest a year. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. The digital period converted many whole hearted believers, but it also made many others even more worried about our programs, services and grant deliverables.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Grants for Technology Staff. We're pleased as punch. Check out Elliot's winning blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. She has been using blogs in the computer walk-in center since 2005 (through a technical assistance grant with the CNET, I worked with them back in 2005 ). Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. The deadline for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations'' ''Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion'' online video contest is September 27th. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Two weeks ago, Drew announced his Twitter fundraising campaign to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation , a charity that "grants wishes for children with life threatening medical conditions." Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. Tags: fundraising2.0

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event , contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Reach out to local businesses and ask if they would consider sponsoring a matching grant for your campaign or donate in-kind donations. Tip #5 : Thank your donors!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. The deadline for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations'' ''Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion'' online video contest is September 27th. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Research San Francisco Homeless Nptech 61

Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Nonprofits can start a Facebook Group, Cause Page to raise a bit of money, or Fan Page to post recent news, videos, photos, events, launch contests, and talk to your members via discussion boards. May 5, 2009 | Renee Fellows I would add - Executives must understand tags and the social web.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back. I've already been able use these resources to look very wise to an organization we work with, and pass on news of some available grants in their field. I do like to look wise.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Kellogg Foundation Grant to America’s Giving Challenge Significantly Increases Number of Overall and Daily Awards Offered to Nonprofit Causes. Tags: Uncategorized fundraising.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 21, 2025

You can even theme the challenge around your mission and encourage people to tag your account on social media (of course, the more fun, quirky challenges will have a higher reach online!). Eating Contest Eating competitions make great fundraisers (and entertainment).

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Get creative this year and brainstorm ways you can engage your supporters with a fully virtual or hybrid event, contests, matching gifts, and challenges. Reach out to local businesses and ask if they would consider sponsoring a matching grant for your campaign or donate in-kind donations. Tip #5 : Thank your donors!

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Tips Social Media Campaign Donor 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The project has not had any heavy marketing campaigns or contests associated with it. But in many cases, visitors may simply choose not to submit a photo for a contest or a thought into a comment box because the request seems insincere, demeaning, or silly. Tags: web2.0 What makes the World Beach Project so successful?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Regardless of the fact that the grant was specifically for the Museum and the school did not have the choice of funding studio space instead, clearly students didn't see the expansion as benefiting them. Tags: design guestpost comfort. Museum expansion was the topic of many a heated Student Alliance meeting.

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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. Tags: Influence Government. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for this Idea].

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. But I’ve argued that for many people, judging, sorting, tagging, and commenting on content are just as valuable—if not more compelling—activities as making the content itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. 25% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag were a reply to @kanter. These were collected using storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Digital Incubator Content - ten grants broadband innovators. Grants won't be capped at 25K. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c

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