Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s a holiday that means summertime fun to many: watermelon, cookouts, and fireworks. Let’s mutiny against common, boring practices of ho-hum fundraising so we can create an environment of philanthropy that’s fun for us to work in, fun for donors to participate in, and changes more lives than ever before. You need systems.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The list of headaches and hassles you’ll encounter is pretty much endless: Renting a venue, hiring a caterer, soliciting silent auction items, signing up and training volunteer event staff, etc. Some well-placed, colorful signage and a fun atmosphere (i.e. But not all fundraisers are difficult and time-consuming to pull off.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to build, train, steward, and replace your committee when it’s time. Delegating tasks to the committee also frees up time for you and your staff to focus on other aspects of your fundraising. In fact, you can even task committee members with helping you find and train their replacements.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Some tools are free, at least to start. Both tools offer some free storage and, for about $10 a month, you can get significantly more. Online training courses abound, and your bookkeeper or board treasurer will likely be familiar with Quickbooks. Wave is a free accounting app for basic accounting functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. On August 14th, I’m doing a FREE webinar with Soapbox Engage on how to raise more money and not burnout. You went to every corner of the earth to recruit donors, vendors, sponsors, volunteers, attendees, etc.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Emphasize the positive publicity that corporate sponsors and individual donors can receive from donating raffle prizes to your event. This prize involves a free meal cooked by a local professional chef at the winner’s home. Include bath bombs, facemasks, lotions, a cozy robe, and a voucher for a free massage at a local spa.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Get sponsors involved in event committees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support. Mention the donor in emails directly about the event they sponsored. Design them free on Canva.

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Qgiv

MARCH 21, 2022

This will vary from hospital to hospital, but lately we’ve seen hospital foundations focus on raising dollars for COVID-19 support funds, reserve funds for future equipment needs, continuing staff education and training, emergency funds, pro-bono services, their own research efforts, and more. Scrub in and Suit Up for a Black Tie Event.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page. The magazine-like quality to the report makes it accessible to high school kids and corporate sponsors alike.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page. The magazine-like quality to the report makes it accessible to high school kids and corporate sponsors alike. Power Poetry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Our sector has provided billions of dollars of free advertising for Facebook. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. That’s what Nonprofit Tech for Good paid for an sponsored ad on LinkedIn. Without training, that’s no easy feat. Our reward? But $3 for a click-though on an ad?!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Costs Since it is free, they don’t want to spend additional money on it.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Not only will this ensure a fun event experience, but it’ll help you know what you need to communicate before and during the event to attendees. Work with your catering company to think about common requests such as vegan options, gluten-free meals, or diabetic-safe desserts. What will guests see, smell, hear, etc.?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Now, before organizations jump onto the excitement wagon and just develop a mobile application, they must understand that gamification is not about making things “fun”. Some gamified mechanisms are about getting the user to just have fun, while others can accurately focus on educating the user through animations and graphic interfaces.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

You might even offer fun prizes to your top peer-to-peer participants like getting to dunk the youth pastor! The vendor that raises the most money will win prizes that help with their business, like a free video ad or partnership with the organization. Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition!

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

NetSquared is proud to be a sponsor of this kickstarter project. With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. One that's free, and lean enough to read in one afternoon if you really wanted to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause. Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. Foot Race These are a classic of the genre.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Apps like Instagram are free and easy to use! Thank your sponsors “Thanks @Aquafina for the 18-wheeler of bottled water! Hashtag EVERYTHING with your org & event names. Use photos in your Tweets! A picture is worth 1000 words, which is awesome when you are limited 140 characters. Sign up to volunteer for Camp for Kids".

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

No matter what you’re fundraising for, hosting a dance-a-thon can help you raise lots of money while also giving your supporters the opportunity to get moving and have fun. A dance-a-thon is a type of peer-to-peer fundraiser where fundraisers commit to dancing for a certain number of hours in exchange for donations and pledges from sponsors.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Are you hoping to get a new corporate sponsor ? Do you need to get sponsors and partners? As you plan your fundraiser, include how you’ll find volunteers and when you’ll train them for their roles. Neither option is fun. I know, I’m ruining all your fun! You should! We need specifics here!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

From tax incentives that appeal to c-level executives to engaging team-building opportunities for employees, corporations gain serious perks when they become corporate sponsors for nonprofits, including: Brand awareness. Offer Free Marketing . Sponsoring a nonprofit organization can help increase brand awareness of a business.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. So love to teach and train and share the knowledge I have to take other organizations to the next level.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Step 7: Secure Event Sponsors and/or In-Kind Donations Most nonprofit events serve as fundraisers. But even if the primary goal of your event isn’t to raise money, securing sponsors for the event will lower your total cost and increase the likelihood that your event is successful. Let’s get started! Take the Assessment!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

If you were just to pick up your phone right now, how many posts would you see from a nonprofit that is not sponsored? Most of the posts are sponsored because organic reaches almost, it will be dead within a few years. So that’d be a great place to start and it might also be free. One of them is free. Not many, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio. Utilize Geotags.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

From tax incentives that appeal to c-level executives to engaging team-building opportunities for employees, corporations gain serious perks when they become corporate sponsors for nonprofits, including: Brand awareness. Offer Free Marketing . Sponsoring a nonprofit organization can help increase brand awareness of a business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are different tools and methods that you can use to listen , including free tools like google alert, technorati, RSS readers , and even Twitter. Once your organization has mastered basic listening skills with free tools, you may consider some of the more advanced tools for listening like Radian 6 and others.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic! A lot of it comes down to a numbers game.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic! A lot of it comes down to a numbers game.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. I conduct free webinars. And so this is where it gets kind of fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. What are the best ways to cultivate relationships with free agent fundraisers and collaborate on fundraisers with them?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Reach out to potential sponsors. To appear organized and professional, you should streamline your branding across your organization, making sure everything from your volunteer program training materials to your gala invitations are consistent. You can use LinkedIn as a starting point for finding corporate sponsors , too.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic! A lot of it comes down to a numbers game.

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