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Dodge, Dash, and Donate: A Playful Peek into Nonprofit Survival Mode

George Weiner, Founder Whole Whale.comGeorge Weiner, Founder Whole Whale.com861 Min Read

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A Day in the Life


Picture this: nonprofits navigating Q4 like they’re in a high-stakes game of Flappy Bird, dodging government shutdowns and budget cuts while desperately collecting donation coins. That’s exactly the vibe of a new mini-game called “Donation Dash” that’s giving the sector a lighthearted yet painfully accurate window into the chaos of year-end fundraising in 2024.

The Real Reason We Created This Game

Here’s the bigger play: it is time to rethink how nonprofits tell their stories in 2026 and beyond, moving beyond text-heavy content that AI is increasingly regurgitating into forgettable overviews. As donors scroll past another generic appeal, interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and micro-apps could be the secret weapon to cut through the noise, deepen engagement, and make your mission unforgettable in ways a blog post simply can’t.

Leveraging interactive content and micro-experiences/apps to build deeper connections with supporters, especially as traditional content gets commoditized by AI. In an era where AI can summarize your impact report in seconds, the organizations that will thrive are those creating memorable, participatory experiences that can’t be replicated by a chatbot—turning passive readers into active participants in your mission.

By George Weiner, Founder Whole Whale.com

In 2010, George Founded Whole Whale, a digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of nonprofits and for-benefit companies. He is also the co-founder of Power Poetry, the largest teen poetry platform in the U.S, a safe, creative, free home to over 500k poets and CTOs4Good.com, a group of technical leaders at nonprofits that deliver social impact primarily through technology and digital strategy. Prior to Whole Whale George was the CTO of DoSomething.org. Over the course of 7 years, he managed the platform overhaul of DoSomething.org twice (winning a Webby Award ) and helped to build a community of over 1.5 million young people taking action. Realizing that much of DoSomething’s success was owed to smart, lean use of many democratized tech tools (including SMS, Google Analytics and the Google Ad Grant), George founded Whole Whale with the goal of helping nonprofits both storied and start-up to move their missions forward with the tools at hand. In over a decade of operations, Whole Whale has worked with over 100 nonprofit and social-impact organizations, spent over $6 million in Google Ad Grants dollars, and supported an additional 200,000+ organizations through free online content and training. An evangelist for democratized data and measuring success, George has presented Whole Whale-related case studies at conferences and workshops around nonprofit technology, including NTC, Cause Camp, the Youth + Tech + Health Conference, and IECC Thrive’s Nonprofit Capacity Building Conference (he’s also been seen on the karaoke stage at many other nonprofit conferences and has been known to turn the Nonprofit Tech Conference into the Nonprofit Toto Conference).

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