All Charities are struggling to finds new ways to appeal for donations form new and existing donors, especially in these economic times. Yet many donors are tired of the same old charity events or auctions. How many cocktail parties and bake sales can anyone really go to anyway? How many 5K races really make you want to dig deep an donate to your favorite charity? People need something new to get them interested again and focused on the charity. They want to participate and make an impact and they want something more than just a goodie bag at the end of the evening!

Virtual events are a new and simple way to promote your charitable cause and solicit donations from a much larger group of potential benefactors worldwide.  It is the perfect way to supplement your usual charitable events and to run simultaneous events without effort.

What is GoNogging?

GoNogging is the brainchild of Gordon Gooch and John Carlino; two entrepreneurs who wanted to create a company to help people get through these trying economic times by cutting costs for small and medium sized business and putting people with skills back to work. The two groups we see struggling the most are small business owners and freelance creative artists, such as developers, artists, videographers and musicians.

Small business owners need high quality marketing material such as websites, ads, jingles and Youtube videos to compete effectively, but can’t afford pricey ad agencies or developers. Meanwhile, creative artists are struggling to make ends meet and are increasing finding their jobs outsourced. GoNogging brings small business owners together with the multitude of creative artists looking for more work to help small businesses get the high quality advertising, or ANY digital content they need while providing creative artists a new source of income.

Along the way, the founders realized that they could also use the same GoNogging methodology to help charities! An entire section of the site was devoted to virtual charity events and charity auctions, all guaranteed by GoNogging’s transaction safeguards.

What is a GoNogging Virtual Charity Event?

It is a way for Charities to create a fun, interactive ways to solicit donations from new and existing benefactors. Charities can create worldwide, performance based interactive events whereby individuals or groups are challenged to do or create something specific in the name of the charity and compete for a guaranteed prize. Conversely, charities can create a virtual auction event whereby the charity could offer either tangible or digital goods to the highest bidder or highest bidders.

How It Works:

GoNogging will help you create a unique, virtual event that involves the creation and submission of either a video, audio or imagery like a photograph or art work.  These virtual events appeal to two distinct groups, the donors who are interested in helping your charity and participating in a fun interactive event and those who want to complete to create the video, audio, or artwork.

At the conclusion of the event:

• Those that donate vote on the winner and receive a copy of the wining content.
• The winning entry gets a prize and recognition for helping the charity.
• The charity gets the donated funds and the wining content, with the right to use the content as they see fit.

Why Will People Participate?

Donors will participate because:

1. They believe in the charity’s goals and/or cause
2. They want to interact with the charity in a new and fun way
3. They are tired of the same old charity events
4. They want something new and tangible for their donation

People will participate in your virtual charitable event/auction because:

1. They believe in the charity and want to help
2. They want to compete to show off their creative talents
3. They want to win the prize

Examples of Possible Charity Events and Auctions

• Photo Contest: The cutest rescued pet photo
• Design Contest: A new website or logo design to support your cause
• Video Contest: A 30 second viral video / commercial made for Youtube that you can place on your website and other video sharing sites to elicit more donations
• Virtual Auctions: 1) A charity might have a limited release photograph donated to the charity. The charity could use GoNogging to create a virtual auction and sell the photo to the highest bidder. 2) An artist might donate an illustration on behalf of the charity and the charity could use the auction functionality to auction the digital illustration to the top 100 bidders.

Safety and Security Issues

GoNogging administers the virtual charitable event and ensures that all donations are safe and secure. At the conclusion of the event, GoNogging will deliver a check to the Charity for the donations, award the prize to the contest winner and make sure all of the donors have the ability to download a copy of the winning submission as a reward for participating.

Publicity

We promote and broadcast your virtual event to our members and all of our social media contacts, such as Facebook and Twitter. We devote a certain amount of our regular advertising to promote the charities event/auction as well. Since your virtual event is broadcast worldwide, anyone that is drawn to your cause can participate.  You also have the ability to educate your members/donors by directing them to your own event page hosted on GoNogging.

If you know of a worthy charity that is looking for a fun creative way to spice things up and get donors re-energized about the helping the charity then have them contact GoNogging to learn how we can help!