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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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Crowdsourcing vs Community-sourcing: What’s the difference and the opportunity?

Amy Sample Ward

For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. org (slide 28) – [link]. Ushahidi (slide 26) – [link]. Answers: 0ne-time, active, crowd.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. org campaign has done really well. This is something that the 350.org

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc.

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Who's Your Nonprofit Hero?

NTEN

There are a lot of orgs like that out there, managing to get great things done in the face of greater adversity. The fine folks at Convio recognize the problem and want to give these great orgs a leg up this holiday season. The one that is changing the world with just one working laptop, a used printer, and a lot of duct tape?

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Vote now for video contest on Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

[Via Will Coley.My *funny* video is a finalist in this contest (#3) and I'd love to get more folks to see it and the other entries. The Movement Vision Lab Video Contest ??? The Movement Vision Lab received a dozen entries in their first ever video contest. Remember, the contest is about Immigration and Community Values.

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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

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