Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Maybe your organization’s vehicle needs new tires, or maybe your students need headphones for school. Maybe you need to replenish your food pantry’s supply of toiletries, or maybe you need to buy subscriptions to an online math program for students in your after-school program.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up. It works really well.

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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? Consider having a low-key gathering the night before the rummage sale to tag items and set up tables.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. The project, designed through a collaboration between CUP and 15 local high school students, investigated the community impact of a new housing development in East New York.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. It only enters one social media contest a year. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. What about you, small organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Amy Bogl uses Facebook parties to help an organization that shelters homeless teens win a fundraising contest. Molly Shah, a volunteer tutor, uses texting almost daily to motivate a student". Tags: NPVolunteer NPtech.

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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. Tags: sxsw training materials. The maps are made by community members.

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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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Students, alumni, parents, and friends are living life’s biggest moments online. Then afterward, they can relive the good times, post new pics, un-tag themselves from the dance party candid pics, and hopefully make plans to attend again next year. Run contests to encourage people to share pictures or publish posts. Absolutely!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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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. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! Paul Lamb might.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c We're working with most web savvy audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

Less than two hours ago, Chase Community Giving made the much anticipated announcement of the lucky winner of $1 million dollars and five finalists each receiving $100,000 on its contest Fan Page. It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea. and Sdfj Dfsjlfkddjf. Change.org reported.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. The real show in the museum was a series of canvasses showing tags--graffiti--and the curator and education department installed a wall in the middle of the gallery so that visitors could tag (we provided colored pencils, and people brought their own markers and stickers).

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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. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software. We received 200+ creative submissions across three categories from organizations of varied size, type, and location. Other Media.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

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 yes, I would say, even with high school and college students, you might have people who want to identify that way. So there wasn’t.

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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 ". Tags: Technology. by September 7th.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

In Los Angeles, they"re hosting an event called "Access to Teknowledgy" for parents, teachers, students and staff at a local school. Tags: digital divide digital inclusion nathaniel james Newsletter NPTech NTEN onewebday. Please check out our Web site, send me an email, and follow us on Twitter @OWD. Happy OneWebDay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. Tags: socialmediametrics. There’s a lot of positive sentiment about Visible Government now. What’s worked for you before?

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See3

DECEMBER 19, 2007

an unnamed University of Florida student said in a video that captured the attention of college-age men and women across the country. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? “Don’t tase me, bro!&# “Oww! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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