NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For the 5th year in a row, the annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest , presented by YouTube and See3 Communications , is open for submission during the weeks leading up to the Nonprofit Technology Conference. If you're a nonprofit and you made a video in 2010, you should: > Submit your video today! And… wait for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So, of course, I want to encourage you to share your giving story and compete for cash grants for your favorite nonprofit organization. MyGivingStory is a social media storytelling contest that fosters a public conversation about giving and inspires more people to give. It is very simple to enter this contest. Post Your Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

Place a little bet & or share your #failure story… you could win a Surface! CALL TO ACTION: Place a Little Bet at Your Nonprofit and Share It (You could win a Microsoft Surface or Other Schwag from the Case Foundation). Place a Little Bet” – try something small to experiment with, learn from it, and share it.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Create an online community for your fundraisers to interact and share their ideas. Provide a way to collaborate and share. Add page sharing tools to the fundraising page. Allow fundraisers to upload either photos or videos to their page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

You can also offer “add-on” tickets for things like concessions, raffle or contest entries, and even tickets for rides or activities ahead of time. Using a fundraising platform with baked-in social sharing prompts, like CrowdRise by GoFundMe, can help you create a modern event experience that goes beyond the ticket purchase.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The fundraiser—whether it’s an inspired event, online appeal or one-time contest—should of course be considered an important component of any non-profit’s campaigning effort. It all comes down to one word: sharing. For instance, ever get swept up in the Facebook videos that automatically play as you scroll through your feed page?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 15) Brand design contests. 3) Cooking classes.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Here are 5 things they do well on their Facebook page: Sharing interesting content. Creating interesting contest. Pro tip : Notice how the San Diego Zoo uses photos and videos in a lot of what they do? Sharing pictures. The other channels is where your video will be consumed. Connect with their loyal fans.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. A digital member badge that can be shared on social media. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Get creative.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The content strategy was to reflect the same community focus on the blog onto our other channels, both highlighting community members’ content as well as creating a space where people could continue sharing on their platform of choice. Share what you’d like to try! (I’ll Just getting started? Why the dog photo?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube videos that link to e-newsletter subscribe page. Select a crowdfunding service that has a modern design, is mobile compatible, and offers social sharing functionality. Include video icons and shortened links to relevant videos. Chapter 5: Online Fundaising. Chapter 12: LinkedIn.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone. The ins and outs.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Both campaigns created opportunity for people to participate and then share it with their networks and make personal recommendations. Two recent reports share data about the actual role celebrity connection plays in nonprofit fundraising and both say the same thing: forget celebrities. Getting Over Celebrities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

We’ve been working hard the past few days and are happy to share that we’ve narrowed down this year’s DoGooder Video Award submissions to a few special finalists! We received a wide array of funny, moving and informative videos that embraced strong storytelling to communicate important messages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

All that said, there is a wide variety of content to feature in your welcome email: a video about your work, a short message from your executive director, an urgent call-to-donate, or simply a welcome and request-to-follow on social media. The open rate for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s welcome email is 62.1% for our weekly e-newsletter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you've taken some risks with your organization's video work this year, great news: thanks to The Case Foundation, the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards will be adding a special category for "Fearless" videos. Different is just what The Case Foundation is looking for in this year's contest. Did you experiment? Take risks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2010

This year we took a more intercative approach to sharing the findings and learnings. It was done through a series of blog posts called AGC Conversational Case Studies and encouraged the public to weigh in via comments to the blog posts, live CaseSoup video discussions, and Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

The JustGiving team is always great about sharing stories, lessons, and insights – so I'll be watching to see how this new tool goes! " Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right | Beth’s Blog – "The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2012

With so many incredible videos submitted to this year’s contest it was no easy task, but judges in the 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards have narrowed down the field of entries to 16 finalists. The 16 finalist videos can be watched on the Contest homepage. You can vote once per day.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we know that contests and challenges are an excellent way to marshal the enthusiasm and talent of our community. Interested in learning how to best use contests and challenges to activate your own community? Have questions about contests and challenges you want to see answered during the discussion on Twitter?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. First are those I call the Ambassadors.

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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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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. With virtual, we worked closely with clients to make sure attendees always knew where to go next, using tools like: Welcome and tutorial videos that explain the virtual platform and highlight the “not to be missed” parts of the meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Here's my contest.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Super-short videos have become one of the coolest (and easiest!) Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. Why Super-Short Videos? Fundraising videos. Really short.

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See3

JULY 22, 2010

It was just a few months ago that we announced the winners of the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards on the YouTube homepage and live at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta. Now, we’re looking for one fine person to run next year’s contest. Please share this opportunity among your networks!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The events don't always have a set topic, but are open discussions for questions, sharing, and learning from your peers. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Says Carie, “By listening to concerns of our fans, producing content that people want to share and making sure every post provides value to our fans and to the animals they care about.”. Their CEO shot a video and blogged about the milestone. Facebook alone doesn’t do get an engaged crowd that takes action. That was key.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from April 15th. The three winning innovations will share in prizes totaling up to $700,000 USD to support their next phase of advancement and implementation." Find me on Delicious for more! " Does social media help you find a job?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2013

The above video from author Peter Sims explaining what a little bet is – failed to launch. We had the 1500 people in the room do the failure bow – captured by here on video. As Brian Reich said, we have to get rid of our fear. We kicked it off with some framing about what exactly is a failure?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It's titled "Online Video for Policy Impact." Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights. Ames will offer advice on meeting the challenges of using a video sharing site within a government agency in support of public communication.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Short video submissions from organizations or families showing "This is what I do with my child," can win grand prizes up to $7,500 and the deadline is just around the corner on February 18. Please visit the site to view this video). Baby Steps 2: Sowing Good Stories from the Community - Video Pre-Production.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. As his celebrity champion, Gary Vee , says in this video , having homeless people use social media to leverage their situation is a powerful idea. She's quite a powerful force.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them! We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. Many of the nodes and groups you don’t know and maybe not even share similar goals.

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