Ideathons bring together idea generation and fundraising by enabling organizations to engage audiences in fundraising campaigns through online collaborative brainstorming challenges. Participants form teams to generate and submit ideas for solving business challenges or nonprofit goals over 5 days. The top ideas are then evaluated and voted on, with prizes awarded. This fosters innovation, problem solving, and raises funds for charities through sponsorships based on the value of every submitted idea.
ideathon - Ideas That Give - Social Open Innovation with a Twist
1. What do you get when idea generation meets fund raising? Companies don't have ideas. People do.
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3. "I've created opportunity to generate fresh ideas, develop solutions and fund raise for communities & charities." Brendan O'Keefe (Founder) In the spirit of other sponsored marathon fund raising events such as MS Readathon, Spellathons and Walkathons, the ideathon enables organisations to engage a wider audience in a fund-raising campaign with a twist.
7. Are you tapping into the intellectual capital of your employees and customers ?
8. The wisdom and imagination of the crowd is easy to source in the digital age... sure go ahead and ask the experts but don't forget to ask the crowd.
9. Everyone has a good idea, give them an opportunity to shout it out, and tell the world. Their solution could make a real difference .
10. Are you searching for a new donation drive and a point of difference amongst all the other organisations that are competing for funding?
15. get your employees and or customers to give you income generating, cost-cutting, process reducing ideas and solutions. Let your employees raise money that goes to charity for each idea they submit
43. What makes an ideathon unique is every single idea has value whether or not it's implemented
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45. The Ideathon Process A. Preparation Match and partner with a charity or business Define the challenge, frame the question(s) desired outcomes and evaluation criteria Decide on the awards and prizes to be offered Determine participants and potential idea sponsors Form teams of 6-10 Set a date and time frame for the ideathon Individuals seek out their sponsors
46. The Ideathon Process B. The Ideathon Publish ideathon website, e-kit, invite participants and host instructional webinar Ideation, collaboration occurs for approximately 5 days. Teams brainstorm 100 + ideas Ideathon closes All ideas are documented and counted prior to evaluation
47. The Ideathon Process C. Evaluation 1 day of evaluation occurs against the original criteria set out in part A 2 Top 10 ideas/solutions are posted to the ideathon website On the final day, ideas/solutions are open to voting via ideathon website D. Sponsorship Collected, Recognition and Prizes