Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

2) Gain fun face time opportunities with virtual events. In-person events are on hold this fundraising event season, but fortunately, streaming tools like Zoom implemented new features throughout the year that make virtually interacting with guests a lot easier and way more fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

The list of conferences cancelled is growing, with some now being delivered a virtual gatherings. It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Innovation was a “need right now” rather than a “maybe later,” and nonprofits were forced to join the twenty-first century — breeding all kinds of virtual solutions. 2) Virtual fundraisers. As the name suggests, virtual fundraisers aim to do everything their in-person equivalents do, but remotely. 3) Hybrid fundraisers.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 5, 2023

25+ speaking sessions at in-person and virtual conferences for ASAE, CSAE,orgCommunity, Association Forum, NiUG, US Transactions Corp and many more. 4 Steps to Leveraging Your Association’s Virtual Event Data Guide – steps you can take to better leverage your virtual event data and help inform your event strategies.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Take a closer look below: Oxfam’s Unwrapped Virtual Village! The Virtual Village. When you visit the Unwrapped Virtual Village, you are given three different villages to help: Hovering your mouse over one of the villages in the circles gives you a dexcription of what issues face that village and how you can help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2022

Online auctions and bingo, raffles, and other charitable gaming can be fun for your attendees and a way for you to gain donations and support for your mission. These virtual events may require not just prior state charitable registration but also gaming licenses. 4) Online Events. How to Comply with State Regulations .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

If you have yet to experience virtual reality (VR), your first adventure into the metaverse using an Oculus Quest will provoke many self exclamations of awe and amazement. When setting up your Oculus Quest for the first time, take your time to visually explore your virtual reality. Have fun with your avatar!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Online auctions, raffles, and other charitable gaming can be a fun way to gain donations and support for your mission. These virtual events may require not just prior state charitable solicitation registration, but also gaming licenses. 4) Online Auctions. However, each state’s disclosure requirements differ.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

Heinan Landa (CEO of Optimal Networks ) asked me last week: As we’re slowly returning to the office and in-person meetings, what lessons from 15 months of virtual meetings should endure? Over the past year, I’ve had many clients bemoan virtual, but I’ve also had many clients express joy over the benefits of virtual.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Fundraising through a virtual gala has proven to be an effective way to connect with donors and get them excited about your mission. With new ideas and tweaks to the activities that would typically be included at in-person events, virtual galas can keep fundraising goals on track and even add to more than expected to the annual goal.

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

Virtual events have allowed event planners and organizers to avoid canceling events and carry on during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people attend virtual conferences , trade shows , career fairs , and other similar events hoping to meet other industry professionals and interact with industry thought leaders. Virtual Cocktail Hours.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

To avoid losing that income and as a way of connecting with patrons, fans, and community members, these organizations can host a New Year’s Eve event in a virtual format. . Virtual events have become the norm for so many of us this year so why should it be any different during the holiday season? Virtual Tasting. Games are fun.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consider these fun corporate team builders (which can even be done remotely ). Teamwork does not have to stem from a strenuous ropes course or virtual escape room. No matter which type your team performs, the idea of the activity is that it is challenging and fun. 5 Fun and Engaging Corporate Team Building Ideas.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

So before you cancel any events, consider whether you can turn it into something digital or virtual. You could either turn an existing event into something virtual or create a completely new virtual fundraising event in its place. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Virtual Live-Stream.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

However, no matter the theme of your virtual event, you need to develop interesting virtual event ideas so that your attendees are engaged, excited, and continue to think about your event and brand long after the event is done! Here are 21 virtual event ideas to get you started. . Live Games. Not sure what to do?

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Since shifting to the virtual event space, event planners have had to come up with creative ways to continue hosting profitable events. Instead of limiting connection and engagement, a virtual fundraising event can strike all the right notes with a target audience while helping the fundraising efforts reach a greater number of people. .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A virtual holiday party for your remote team is one way to show them that we are all in this together and to remind people of the goodness and warm feelings that the holidays can bring. . If your team is new to the remote workforce life, then you and your virtual team may have by now adjusted to remote work. . Virtual Scavenger Hunt.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

But with the recent industry shift toward virtual and hybrid events, it has become even more popular. Gamification takes the traditional elements of games, gaming, and competition and applies them to non-gaming, non-competitive applications, and scenarios. Benefits of Gamification for Virtual Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. You can also send fun cards using Felt. Consider unique and fun opportunities during the year to participate directly in your impact. Design them free on Canva.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

But with the recent industry shift toward virtual and hybrid events, it has become even more popular. Gamification takes the traditional elements of games, gaming, and competition and applies them to non-gaming, non-competitive applications and scenarios. Benefits of Gamification for Virtual Events.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 19, 2021

So if you have the chance to host an exhibitor booth in an online trade show, a virtual career fair, or perhaps as part of an online product launch, you should take advantage of it! Virtual exhibitor booths can provide companies with a list of qualified leads. Benefits of Virtual Exhibitor Booths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For corporate holiday events, you might have considered hosting a virtual holiday party such as a Santa exchange. Business, non-profits, and charities should consider hosting a virtual holiday fundraiser like a virtual gala. Things to Consider Before Planning Your Virtual Holiday Fundraiser.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Is your nonprofit interested in hosting a hybrid or virtual scavenger hunt fundraiser? Eventzee is an app that makes it easy to host scavenger hunts and quiz nights by giving nonprofits the ability to create unique tasks that can be completed both in person and virtually within the Eventzee app. How to emulate their success.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rather than missing out entirely, transitioning in-person events to virtual fundraisers helps you to continue to raise crucial funds for your cause, while our supporters stay safe and support you from their own homes. Ready to take your virtual fundraising to the next level? Accessing fitness events virtually. Even better?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the last few years, virtual events have seen incredible growth in popularity and yet still remain a complete mystery to most people. Event organizers may have thought that trade shows were about to disappear altogether but the fact is, trade shows are perfect candidates for virtualization! The benefits of a virtual trade show.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2021

Many organizations went virtual and saw great success. They found that people still wanted to support their favorite missions and wanted to do something good, and virtual was really the only option at the time. . People want to support missions, but theory tells us that the more fun an event is, the higher the giving is.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Engage guests at your virtual event with these exciting strategies—and incentivize participation to raise big money. It’s no different for guests attending your virtual event, who could face even more distractions at home. Looking for even more ways to spice up your virtual event this year? Games and Raffles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

This can be fun, but set ground rules so you don’t disappoint. Host a recurring or one-time game night with friends and make each round a split prize with the organization. Zoom game night: Players pitch in $10 and host a virtual game night. There are many game options. My favorite is Jackbox.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Aside from the necessity of virtual fundraising due to the pandemic, there are plenty of other bonuses to fundraising online. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach. From standard digital donation forms to peer-to-peer fundraisers , there are a wide variety of ways that nonprofits can fundraise virtually.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

You CAN have an organized, efficient, and yes – even FUN — Board meeting. He’s the one that somehow manages to turn a conversation about the next fundraiser into a story about his nephew’s baseball game. For more ideas about virtual Board meetings, check out this guide from Boardable. Well, have no fear. You know David.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Virtual classroom connections. Interactive games. Educational games are a fantastic way for educational nonprofits to engage students, without making the learning process feel complicated or arduous. The on-site teachers and remote guests can then work together to use information from the game to further interact with students.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

Gamification is the ability to add games, competition, rewards, and other elements of game-playing, like point-scoring, to encourage engagement with a service or product. . The event professional hosting the event would have to define the event branding , game rules, game mechanics, how the point system works, and the game’s goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

from my flickr photo stream Susan Tenby from TechSoup gave a presentation for a workshop called Virtual Games/Virtual Worlds during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice. We started off with a little fun.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. In our 2020 Navigating the Unknown Report , we found that over 50% of nonprofits pivoted to virtual events last year. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2024

Galas are an exciting opportunity that allows you to connect with new donors and returning donors alike in a fun environment. Casino night Turn your gala into a fun casino with vibrant decorations and the sounds of games in action. These challenges could range from a trivia contest to a fun dance-off or relay races.

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