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Event Fundraising Contests That Will Blow Your Mind!!

NetWits

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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Should We Just Blow Up Nonprofit "Vote for Me" Social Good Contests ?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I stumbled across another reason why I'd like to blow up online contests that use "vote for me" or popularity to make funding decisions. If a contest or program does not lead with social outcomes and if big money is thrown on the table, it encourages social innovation of another kind. I initially thought it was a good idea.

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New York City’s mayor-elect says he wants to be paid in Bitcoin

The Verge

New York City’s mayor-elect Eric Adams said in a tweet Thursday that he wants his first three city paychecks paid in Bitcoin, in a bid to show up the mayor of Miami and indicate his hopes that New York will be a place where the cryptocurrency industry is welcome. Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Photographer wins AI-image contest with real picture, gets disqualified

TechSpot

Art News writes that judges for the competition included representatives from the New York Times, the auction house Christie's, and. Miles Astray's image, titled F L A M I N G O N E, was entered into the AI category of the People's Vote Award at the 1839 Photography Awards. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Director Competes on ‘Jeopardy!’

NonProfit PRO

Erin Rion , the director of clinical services at New Hope Community — a New York-based human services organization that supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities — recently appeared as a contestant on “Jeopardy!”.

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Bots have been winning T-Mobile Tuesdays giveaway contests

The Verge

Contests are free to enter , and you don’t have to be a T-Mobile customer (though you do need to be a US resident). In contrast, they counted 14 New York winners out of 8.3 Through the T-Mobile Tuesday program, the carrier offers occasional giveaways with prizes that often include gift cards, tech gadgets, and vacations.

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