NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Highlight statistics about how social media can help them raise even more. This group will be tough to motivate, so focus on incentives, contests and convenience. Include reminders about deadlines and contests. Highlight team-specific contests, like best theme or largest team. Minimum/Non-fundraisers. Team captains.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Plus, fundraising statistics. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers. show that every generation, from Millennials to Baby Boomers, prefers donating on online platforms.

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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. Be prepared to cite statistics and offer solutions. Again, cite statistics and offer solutions. Include your most compelling statistic. Be brief and passionate. Frame the issue as urgent.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Every year, GrantStation runs a contest to uncover some of the best proposals that have been written. One of our winners from several years ago, who writes for a home for the elderly, submitted a stellar proposal that combined statistics and a story. She opened with statistics: Elder abuse is prevalent in (name of state).

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Plus, fundraising statistics show that every generation, from Millennials to Baby Boomers, prefers donating on online platforms. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

As Shelly Bernstein, staff member at the museum, writes on the project blog, Click is not a contest, it's a study of crowds. View the Evaluation Statistics.)It You can click through and see how the 389 images were evaluated by 3,344 evaluators who submitted 410,089 evaluations.

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Neon CRM

JULY 5, 2023

Most of these programs use data that’s a few years old, meaning any facts, statistics, or best practices it recommends could be inaccurate (or even just entirely made up). Contests or challenges: This is another campaign style that’s largely driven by user participation. Finally, there’s the question of copyright.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We're nearing the end of our #CelebrateAdobeCC contest and it's time to announce our round 2 winners! The final round of the contest closes November 14, 2015, so submit now. But don't fret, there's still time to submit to round 3. Now, without further ado, our round 2 winners are. CelebrateAdobeCC Gold Prize.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. Here are a few key statistics and highlights from the report. The challenge raised $2.1 million dollars for nonprofits from over 105,000 donations.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

With statistics like that, you don’t want your nonprofit to miss out on the charitable spirit of the holiday season. Gingerbread house decorating contest. Put your supporters’ creative cookie construction skills to the test with a gingerbread house decorating contest. Host this event as part of a holiday party.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This includes statistics, safety recommendations, and other COVID-19 buzzwords that continue to remind people about the pandemic. This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Host a virtual endurance event!

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

Put different types of wine at different levels of fundraising accomplished by your participants or make a contest of who’s able to identify the different notes in each wine. Wine Tasting If you’re appealing to your major donors, use your peer-to-peer event to treat them to a wonderful experience while raising money for your cause.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Whether a conference, a gala, or a trivia contest, you can live stream the event directly on Facebook. Let’s discuss a few statistics regarding your final fundraising campaign of the year: Roughly 30% of all annual giving occurs in December. That removes a massive administrative burden from your team!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Statistics show that 98% of text messages are opened within the first five minutes. You can drive bids by making announcements about hotly contested items and by sending push notifications for app-based bidders letting them know when they’ve been outbid. Another strategy you can use to reach supporters is text fundraising.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful! How can I make my data useful?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2015

Their school dropout rate decreased in comparison with the national statistics. This story was a winner in TechSoup's global case studies contest highlighting the very best impact stories from TechSoup's network of 63 partners serving 121 countries. Images: OvidiuRo. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2015

Their school dropout rate decreased in comparison with the national statistics. This story was a winner in TechSoup's global case studies contest highlighting the very best impact stories from TechSoup's network of 63 partners serving 121 countries. Images: OvidiuRo. spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

These are phenomenal statistics and your organization should participate in this global day of giving. Example: The Florida Aquarium set up a peer-to-peer fundraising contest on #GivingTuesday that resulted in unique opportunities for the top performing donors. . This is also a great way to reach a new donor base.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Encourage your participants to create dance teams and host contests to see who can come up with the most fun routines. Matching gift drive Matching gifts are statistically proven to increase people’s likelihood of donating, making a matching gift drive a highly successful peer-to-peer fundraiser for many organizations.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Knowing what you do now, what tips do you have for any nonprofit interested in holding a similar contest? Make sure you have clear processes and designate one person to communicate with the contest entrants and winners. What sort of statistics can you share with us about the competition? How many videos were submitted?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Knowing what you do now, what tips do you have for any nonprofit interested in holding a similar contest? Make sure you have clear processes and designate one person to communicate with the contest entrants and winners. What sort of statistics can you share with us about the competition? How many videos were submitted?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to our fundraising statistics , monthly donors give 42% more in one year than one-time donors. Who shares your contests? Here are some of our favorite from Qgiv’s list of virtual fundraising ideas : Virtual bingo night Photo or cooking contests Virtual scavenger hunt Classes, tutorials, or webinars Online game-a-thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. Where Most Needed blog lets us know that Google has acquired a fun statistical visualization tool from a Swedish nonprofit. Details are here.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to our fundraising statistics , charitable giving is expected to increase by 5.1% Despite this telling statistic, nonprofits don’t often tap into email’s full potential because they are sometimes unaware of effective strategies. We also have some good news for you. What does this mean for your organization?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. We know that the actual statistics of people coming through the door is not quantifiable yet—we haven’t done a visitor survey in a couple years. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool. Is there such a place?

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Bloomerang

JULY 14, 2021

Employment Statistics of UK’s Disabled People ]. Contests and giveaways . Stats & facts (via Infographics) [Eg. Explainers or tips . Thank you video from your nonprofit’s founder or staff . Recurring themes related to your work (e.g. throwback Thursday) . Posts about events . Audience Q&As, quizzes, and polls.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The stickers accumulate to show a simple statistical distribution of love styles in the visitor community. The best of the results were published on the papers online and included in the exhibition complete with first person labels, photographs, and artifacts. You then put a sticker under the name of your dominant style.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests in order to build your email list and collect user generated content. Statista is a searchable portal to multiple statistics databases worldwide. iStock :: istock.com. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests in order to build your email list and collect user generated content. Statista is a searchable portal to multiple statistics databases worldwide. For multi-lingual surveys, it is a better service than SurveyMonkey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests. Statista is a searchable portal to multiple statistics databases worldwide. For multi-lingual surveys, it is a better service than SurveyMonkey. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com. Event Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Tornado History Project The Tornado History Project is a searchable, sortable database of tornado statistics based on official National Weather Service (NWS) tornado records from 1950-2005 and googlemaps. Who Is Sick? Full Stop Campaign.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

There are four sections to this post: An overview of ScratchR user types and related statistics. First, a look at statistics on user types. The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads.

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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. What if there was an ongoing project to weigh all the shoes or measure them and create an ongoing statistics project? This is a problem specific to open-ended projects.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. " and includes modeling statistical analysis. Azure is Microsoft's solution for building scalable online apps and services without the need for physical infrastructure. You can enter to win on this site. " and includes alerts and dashboards.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Instead of being overwhelmed by a mountain of statistics, your donor’s gift becomes part of a moving story. Harness the power of overcoming difficulty by : Holding challenging fundraising events that require some effort, like walk-a-thons, contests, or races. If you have photos or videos of Mr. Fuddles and his human that’s even better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We could have build a dashboard for statistics (donations, reddit ranking, retweet count, page views, etc.) We have some great ideas for how to use the money, including the forthcoming Code for Canada contest and an initiative to get computer science students to develop transparency applications. Appeal to their inner lemming.

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