Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual open mic night. Let them share and show off for a night with a virtual open mic night fundraiser. Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Without further ado - drumroll, please - the winners of the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest are: Print/Photo. Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios. Other Media. Other Media. Runners-up : Talking Eyes Media , Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!)

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Schools have students and alums. Hold a recruitment contest with special perks for current members and recognition for when they recruit new members. Create connections through special events and open houses Why not invite potential members to step into your world? Give members a button or pin and encourage them to wear it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. The maps are made by community members.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

To make the process extra fun and to make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. You could have a potluck dinner and open it up to the public and have your staff and employees invite friends. Contact local schools and see what students and organizations are looking for volunteer opportunities.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. The kernel is open-source, meaning its millions of lines of code are publicly available for anyone to view and contribute to. You are not welcome here.”.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They combine putting and chipping contests with silent and live auctions, dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity to win a ton of fun prizes, all while raising money for their mission. Text messages have a 98% open rate, so send teasers to last year’s attendees or prior donors via text. May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

While a gala may reference just about any type of festive celebration, it’s most often used to refer to more extravagant events that feature entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, meals, open bars, and auctions. You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. After-school violin program receives six new violins, will expand to include younger students . Food pantry partners with local pet rescue to open pet food pantry. Avoid exclamation points.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 24, 2024

This way, you’ll only send back-to-school communications to those who have students they need to make purchases for. Leverage student marketing data. By leveraging third-party student marketing data, you can expand your reach to even more people who are likely to engage with your back-to-school campaigns. Creating blog content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. A few days ago, the John D. and Catherine T.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. Open the dinner to the public and have your existing supporters invite their friends. Set up a tent outside of the student center and give away free doughnuts or coffee to attract people to your tent. And you’ll get a striking advertisement.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Take a look.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Don’t forget to leave the door open and a glass of wine out for Elijah. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have “tip jars” for people to show their support for their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Online Course. BBQ for Good.

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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. For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. Many students in the town did not have Internet access at home, so the library found the money and opened on Sundays to provide their nine public access computers and five tablets to the kids. To kick off our new success stories.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Having to rely on virtual fundraising to get through some difficult times opened many people’s eyes to the convenience, ease, and accessibility of online events and fundraisers. You should also be able to list fund-a-need items and open a regular online store so your auction participants can buy special items they’re interested in.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) Or a baking contest? Hold a work-a-thon. Walk-a-thons are a staple of schools and nonprofits all over the country.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Women who were denied basic education in their youth can now access online education from some of the best schools in the world and open doors to a better life," he adds. " says Janissa Balcomb, president of Laptops to Lesotho Inc. A New Web Presence and a Better Way to Connect with Donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Freecharity.org.uk

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Hacking Autism”initiative sought technology-based ideas to open up learning, communication and social possibilities. Apps Against Abuse Contest [A] challenge that encourages the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent dating violence and sexual assault.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Key Report #5: Site Overlay Wouldn't you love it if you could open your site and see exactly where people are clicking? Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. you won't get it unless you were a music conservatory student like me. With the Site Overlay report you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Create collaborative, student-authored resources.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Access to a fast, affordable, and open Internet is essential for every child in school, every entrepreneur with a new idea, and anyone who wants full access to government and the democratic process. The Web is valuable because of the decentralized network of people who make things happen online.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Maybe you’ve never read A Tale of Two Cities, but I bet you know the opening line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”. Or, how about Snoopy’s famous opening sentence, “It was a dark and stormy night.”. To add to the evening’s fun, have special contests, like one for the best pet and pet-parent look-alikes.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. Flickr photos and Youtube videos are open and available to all. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" We prototyped the most complicated interactives (the Love Styles quiz and Hearts to Hearts game) with visitors in the months leading up to opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign. Made To Stick is the bible for clear, simple messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters. These were removed in the final days of the contest.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

It makes us giggle every time we open up this PowerPoint. But at Pedal the Cause, because it’s a small organization, a small group of people, and we didn’t really want it to be a popularity contest, we kind of put it. And we’ll go ahead and talk a little bit more as you keep throwing your favorite words out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Impact Circles - Birgit Pauli-Haack Executive Directors meet to open the Pandora''s Box of technology and take the beast to serve their organization''s mission and save time and money. Want to learn more?

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! For example, see the comments back and forth about " $$ Spent per student and SAT Score ", or " How Likely Are Your Gun Owners to Shoot Somebody ". Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness.

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