Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2021

Invite guests to your virtual event by sending fun, friendly text messages that spark interest and make it easy for them to register. 2) Seek out volunteers. Ask previous fundraising campaign volunteers if they can lend their creative talents and help out with the technology powering your event. 3) Send reminders to guests.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

The snowball effect—if your event is fun, participants will come back year after year (along with new supporters). Below, we’ll show you how to build and incorporate a peer-to-peer campaign and share a few fun ideas to try, but first, we’ll explain what sets this form of social fundraising apart. Sounds good, right?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers make up an essential part of a nonprofit’s workforce. In fact, about a third of Americans volunteer each year. This article will ensure your organization is equipped with up-to-date information, best practices, and guidelines for managing your volunteer workforce successfully. What is volunteer management?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Approximately 80% of volunteers state that they would like to be recognized or thanked by their organizations by hearing about how their work has made a difference. Your volunteers do a fantastic job in helping your nonprofit turn its dreams for a better community into reality. Let’s dive in to learn more!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Hands-on volunteering days Nothing beats the power of getting ones hands dirty for a good cause. Organizing hands-on volunteering events like community clean-ups, food drives, or shelter support days offers students the opportunity to make an immediate difference while connecting to the nonprofits mission.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This GivingTuesday , no matter what your campaign or theme, you can’t go wrong spotlighting the stories of your volunteers. Showcasing your volunteers’ journeys not only celebrates their invaluable commitment, but also fosters trust and connection within the community, highlighting the human impact behind every effort.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 9, 2022

The need for volunteer recruitment at nonprofits is ongoing because it is impossible to retain 100% of volunteers. The ebb and flow of volunteers is natural, but that doesn’t mean nonprofits should give up on recruitment. Here are ten creative ways that nonprofits can start recruiting volunteers: 1.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

If so, you may be interested in starting a volunteer program. Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. Define your volunteer roles.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 1, 2023

Your volunteer orientation and training program should foster a happy, prepared volunteer base. Here are 4 tips to help volunteers gain the most value from the experience. A good orientation and training program will provide volunteers with a positive experience and first impression of your organization.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective supervision can empower your volunteers to reach goals and do their best work. Here are 5 tips that can help supervisors manage, lead, and engage volunteer constituents. Supervising volunteers can be a challenging task. Here are 5 tips that can help supervisors manage, lead, and engage volunteer constituents.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

Great volunteers can be a huge asset to your nonprofit, donating hundreds or thousands of hours of work each year to your cause. When your nonprofit is new, young, or small, finding volunteers and plugging them in to a role they enjoy can be tricky. After all, it takes work to find new volunteers and you want them to stick around.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Fortunately, there are a ton of options to build-in revenue enhancers that add fun and excitement without incurring prohibitive costs. make the event more fun and more memorable for golfers. For example, adding hole-in-one or other contests (putting, closest to the pin, etc.) or on-course entertainment (long drivers, beat the pro, etc.)

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social media is a powerful, yet affordable, way to inform, engage, and recruit volunteers. Did you know that 47% of nonprofit leaders say recruiting sufficient volunteers is a big problem for their organization? If you’re wondering if social media can be an effective tool to recruit volunteers, the answer is yes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

This can lead to a new network of donors, volunteers, fundraisers, grantors, and even corporate sponsors. Use gamification and incentives make social fundraising fun. When you add an element of fun to the mix, it can help to activate zero dollar fundraisers, as well as get people talking about how they’re interacting with your cause.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Personally, I’m a big fan of asking those serving on the board of directors to not only donate first (which is a given) but to also volunteer with fundraising efforts. The same goes for your major donors, long-time volunteers, and others who’ve shown commitment to your cause over the years.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

rely on volunteers to provide their critical mission-focused services. So, what do these volunteers get out of serving? The answers stem from how volunteer management and key organizational leadership view volunteer retention - the ability to keep volunteers long-term. Volunteers feeling overloaded.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? Then there’s your workforce—both paid and volunteer. Today is the day you’re going to shed the “vacation” mentality of training your nonprofit staff and volunteers. Instead, it’s creating a new normal entirely.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. But volunteers don’t just appear out of thin air.

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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. To build your organization’s bank account and volunteer base, you need a flourishing community of supporters. You can also send fun cards using Felt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

As a beloved cause to many, you can find willing and effective influencers among your own ranks and volunteers. See what your board or staff members, donors and volunteers are up to on social media. I especially love how the library messages the program as one about the volunteers, not the organization.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

3 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Nonprofits Volunteers recruitment is crucial to many aspects of your nonprofit’s operations. Volunteers run your fundraising events. Tap Into Existing Supporters Maybe the volunteers you’re looking for have been right under your nose the whole time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

Nonprofit fundraising events can be a great opportunity to bring the support of donors, volunteers, and fundraisers together in real life to rally around your cause, whether it’s through a nationwide 5k or a local bowl-a-thon. For example, are you looking to target volunteers, fundraisers, or even VIP donors? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2019

While their benefits are unmatched, it’s not uncommon for fundraisers, volunteers, and nonprofit professionals to find the task of organizing and executing a golf fundraiser to be especially daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s even harder when multiple people are involved, including volunteers and staff at the golf facility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

They’re also using their own hashtag and some fun emojis, which helps it visually pop on a Twitter feed. The United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties asked one of their volunteers to post a video showing the damage from the Tennessee tornado outbreak of March 2020.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

You CAN have an organized, efficient, and yes – even FUN — Board meeting. And no, I don’t mean the volunteer picnic next week (though the Board needs to be aware of it).Your The post Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Well, have no fear. I GET IT, and I’m here to help!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You can still tell a story and it should have a hook and conclusion, but it cannot include opinions or words such as “best” “fun” “entertaining” etc. You also need to talk to everyone, not a specific audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When your data is siloed across your CRM, Marketing, CMS, AMS, volunteer, program, event management, and other tools, it can be a huge challenge to gain a complete picture of your donors (without a massive level of manual effort – see reason #2). It’s exhausting, inefficient, and certainly not fun work. Integrations can: .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They have all realized that giving back is so much more effective – and fun – when you do it with others. They can provide volunteers, event spaces, connections, advertising space…the opportunities are endless. What could your GivingTuesday partnerships look like? Here are a few ideas and ways to approach it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart. Dan is bilingual in English and Spanish.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Social Media Challenges There is no shortage of fun social media challenges (think the ALS bucket challenge) to engage supporters and promote awareness and giving. Consider utilizing your Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok with fun challenges, hashtags, and the like to drive interest in your cause.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2025

Your supporters are coming out of winter hibernation, eager to get involved in community events, volunteer opportunities, and charitable giving. Celebrate Volunteers and Donors With April being National Volunteer Month, take time to recognize and celebrate your volunteers while encouraging them to bring in new supporters.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

You don’t want to spend more than you raise, and poor planning can turn an event into a budget buster that wastes your most precious resource – time and volunteers. I know sometimes it’s hard to say “no” to a fundraiser idea your volunteers or Board come up with. Draws volunteers easily. BUT the flip side? Sells out every year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Generate a list monthly or quarterly of current donors or volunteers and call or email them to thank them for their current or past support. your neighbors. your family members. This works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And they motivate people to give more — either through monetary contributions or volunteering. There’s something really nice about catching up with fellow donors during a luncheon or participating in a fun run to raise money for a nonprofit. They enable nonprofits to build their brand and inform newcomers of their mission.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Peer-to-peer fundraising—individuals raising money for a cause with the help of their family and friends—is a fun, easy, and lucrative strategy to attract awareness and generate funds for your cause. Bowl-a-Thon This is a popular way to get teams together for friendly competition in a fun social environment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Now that we have that out of the way, we can get on to the fun part! Your nonprofit most likely has a lot going on, not to mention you need to provide content to multiple audiences (those that benefit from your service, your volunteers and your donors, at a minimum). Tactic 1: Make it Visible.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

BGC's mission is to increase those numbers by partnering with schools, companies, organizations, and volunteers to offer Black girls in-person and virtual learning opportunities. This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!).

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