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Congratulations to Mariana Nunes! You are our winner of the tutor referral scheme award for this quarter 🥳🎊 Thank you for spreading the word about Action Tutoring and encouraging your peers to volunteer with us! £50 gift card coming your way 😁 How the tutor referral scheme works⬇️ If you successfully refer someone you know, your name will be entered into a draw (which will be drawn every three months). The more people you refer, the more chances you have at winning a £50 gift card! 1️⃣ The person you have recommended fills out the application form. 2️⃣ When they fill out the form, ask them to select "word of mouth" in the "How did you hear about us?" section. 3️⃣ A field will then appear in which they should enter your name. 4️⃣ Submit the application! Find out more about how it works by clicking this link: https://lnkd.in/e5d2xgMa #referral #volunteering #tutor #reward

Here's another opportunity to provide input for OFCY's FY2025-2028 Strategic Investment Plan! Take this brief 3-minute survey to provide important insight and for a chance to win a $25 gift card! Please share widely! ------------------ BRG is facilitating community input to inform the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth's (OFCY) FY2025-2028 Strategic Investment Plan. Share your insights about what has changed for Oakland’s children & youth over the past three years, and what supports are critical to help them thrive.

Donors are emotional creatures who justify their actions with logical. I once auctioned a $25 gift card for $3,500. Why? Step 1: get people off of value of items and get them focused on mission. Step 2: conduct an activity that demonstrates social proof that proves value of items is irrelevant. Step 3: engage audience with opportunities to give regardless of value. Not sure how to achieve all of this? Let’s chat.

FINALLY some Spring weather has arrived! We were beginning to think it was never coming. Anyway, with the good weather comes more time outside to boost those vitamin D levels and recharge the mind. With a National Trust gift card, recipients can discover more than 500 places and lots of events to get involved in. How much do you know about the National Trust? Have a go at our quiz, the answers are revealed at the end. Let us know how you get on! https://lnkd.in/eBVd4rK4

Fundraising and foundation friends: What do you wish that people understood better about the grant process? When I was doing survey research on donor management systems, lots of people offered to help me promote it. Now it's time to return the favor to Foundant Technologies and 1832 Communications, who are seeking to capture the experiences of anyone involved in the process of making grants. What You Need to Know: ⏳ Survey Duration: 7-9 minutes ️🔒 Confidentiality: Responses remain confidential and aggregated 🌐 Impact: Your participation will enhance the understanding of grant management challenges and successes 🎉 Incentive: Enter to win a $50 gift card! 🗓 Deadline: July 31, 2024 Here's the survey link for grant MAKERS: https://lnkd.in/gZjF9jnz And the survey link for grant SEEKERS: https://lnkd.in/g8-z85s4

📣🎁 Enter The Literacy Ripple Effect #Contest for a chance to win prizes!  Tell us how literacy has created a ripple effect in your life, at home, at work or in the community.  ✅ How to enter: 1. Complete the following sentence by providing one or more examples: “For me, the ripple effect of literacy is…”   Examples:  • I can read recipes and cook new things.  • I can follow the instructions on my medicine bottle and take the right amount.  • I can get a better job by having digital literacy skills.  • I can join local events by reading community websites. 2. Email your entry to contest@decoda.ca. 3. Enter before midnight on September 30. 🎁 • There are 4 INDIVIDUAL prizes of $50 Indigo gift cards • And one CLASS prize of a $200 Indigo gift card. Contest rules at: https://lnkd.in/gAJCbMTi 😀 Learn more about Literacy Month at: https://lnkd.in/gX2Stan8 #LiteracyMonth2024 #LiteracyRippleEfect #Contest #BC #Literacy 

Are You A Young Person In Recovery (Ages 18-30)? If so, we'd like to hear from you! SMART Recovery USA, in collaboration with YouthRecoveryCT, is conducting a survey to better understand the experiences and needs of young adults (ages 18-30) attending SMART Recovery meetings. Why Participate? *Your feedback will help improve support and resources for young adults in recovery. *The survey takes less than 10 minutes. *By completing the survey by August 23rd, you can enter a drawing to win one of eight $25 Amazon gift cards. Link to the Survey: https://lnkd.in/eB6Vf-Gg Confidentiality: Your individual responses will be kept confidential and will only be accessible to JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), a non-profit specializing in evaluation and research.

🎨 Design Challenge Alert! 🎨 Are you ready to show off your creative side AND win a $25 gift card? 💸 Operation Child Care Project (OCC Project) needs YOUR help to create a standout handout for our upcoming conference! What’s the deal? We’re putting together welcome bags for military members, veterans, and their supporters at the MIC 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, and we want our handout to be the one everyone talks about! Your design will highlight our booth where attendees can snag free earplugs and eye masks—because let’s face it, we all know what it’s like to be "Tired as a mother… (or father)" 😴 Why enter? Not only will your design be seen by thousands, but you also get to decide your gift card choice.  Plus, it's a fun way to support a great cause! How to win: 1. Create a quick, engaging handout design. It can be the size of a postcard or page. 2. Make it pop! Think about what would make YOU stop and pay attention. 3. Submit your design by September 6th. This can be on Canva, photoshop, PowerPoint, Paint (do people still use that?), or the back of a napkin with spilled chocolate milk in the corner. Remember: This conference's audience is military personnel, veterans, and their supporters. Keep it relatable, fun, and simple! OCC Project is a nationwide nonprofit serving all those who have served, so the audience overlap is perfect. 🎁 Bonus: Come visit us at the OCC Project booth during the conference for some free earplugs and an eye mask—because you deserve a break, even at a conference! 😉 Ready to get started? Drop your designs below or send them to info@occproject.org. Our team will get together to pick the winner on September 7th! #DesignChallenge #OCCProject #MIC2024 #SupportOurTroops #CreativeContest

Join us at the Pollies (AAPC Conf) next week in DC for an 8-minute demo to learn how Aristotle's Matchit site can help you improve your digital programs, outreach/communication programs, and fundraising results. Our platform can't eliminate the challenges associated with finding your personal match, but it can eliminate bad phones and emails and enrich your current data. That's why so many fundraising, survey, and digital teams rely on us to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. Plus, the first 10 in-person demos next week will receive a choice of a $25 gift card or an autographed photo for Ted's dating profile picture (sitting on the hood of his candy-red Corvette wearing a freshly ironed tank top). Message me directly or go to https://lnkd.in/e6Z9R3Xk today to secure your choice. Don't wait, as both options will not last long! #Pollies #Fundraising #DigitalMarketing #Data

📝 The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) ECE Field Survey Take 15 minutes to complete NAEYC’s newest survey of the ECE field (and have the chance to win a prize, including a $100 gift card or a free registration to NAEYC’s 2024 Virtual Public Policy Forum!). Federal child care stabilization grants ended on September 30, 2023. Through a partnership with the RAPID-Early Childhood Survey Project, NAEYC has shared some data about the impact on the national child care landscape, but completing and sharing this new survey helps gather updated, state-based, and localized data and stories, about the realities of what is happening across the child care sector. Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/eSPGFRAp