The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I continue to evolve my thinking about how to tell non-profit stories. This is natural in any line of work, but in non-profit storytelling I find that it mostly impacts my process for writing and telling stories. I also read a lot of non-profit stories that are simply just the facts told chronologically.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2024

The book includes adapted content from 20 articles that previously appeared on HBR.org. “We The difference between a mentor and a sponsor. This is a quick-read book, filled with essential advice and relatable stories that provide you tips for navigating your early career. What to do when you become your friend’s boss.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It is often much more effective to use as few words as possible and let images tell the stories for us. When we use images that are based on real data and facts, our story, and more importantly – our conclusions – become self-evident. Our audience is no longer taking our word for it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2024

Create a stewardship and retention plan showing how their support makes a difference. Make the ask Here are five different strategies and six examples of making the ask to a volunteer. Share your story with us and consider making a donation to help us continue our mission. Give them special privileges or incentives.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Almost all media now feature feel-good stories about people and organizations that do good. Here are 6 steps to get the press to tell your story: 1. A small story, even an announcement about your special event or volunteer project, in a weekly newspaper could lead to interest from the local TV station. Tell a riveting story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

In this article we’ll discuss video engagement for social media, what it is and why it’s important. In this article we’ll focus on just one of those key findings: how emotion impacts social sharing. Emotional stories of beneficiaries. Think about a story that your nonprofit can tell about one of your beneficiaries.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 4, 2022

When it’s the beginning of a new calendar year or the start of a new fiscal year, the fresh start is a great time to create your non-profit’s annual story strategy. Just like creating a fundraising plan or a communications plan, a story strategy is your opportunity to build a clear roadmap to your goals. Goal Setting & Priorities.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at three important steps to take as you start planning your year-end fundraising campaign, including: Setting your year-end fundraising goals Identifying your campaign’s story Planning for donor retention Let’s take a look! Dig into the topic by checking out our article on how to set (and meet!)

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While advocating for survivors in San Francisco, I witnessed first-hand how critical stories are in tapping into people’s empathy. However, it wasn’t until my career took a turn into strategic communications and marketing that I learned just how integral a winning story is to the success of an advocacy campaign. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2020

In the nonprofit industry, we often hear the phrase “every dollar counts” or “together, we can make a big difference.” It may be time for your nonprofit to reevaluate your fundraising strategy and learn how micro-donations for nonprofits can make a significant difference. By Kaley Aposporos , Content Writer at GoFundMe Charity.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Circulate articles and information on best practices and trends in finance. Members join an association board because they want to make a difference for their profession and society. Tell your financial story. Invite your investment team to explain your organization’s allocation and risk strategies and investment reports.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Tell Your Story Effective storytelling deepens the connection between your organization and your donors, leading to more donations via social. If your nonprofit uses our “Impact Stories” feature, draw attention to those stories in your social post, or incorporate them into your goals (e.g. Imagery can help with this too.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! What Makes a Good Story?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. Today’s blogging couldn’t be more different. Below are three examples from three different nonprofits: 1) e-Newsletter opt-in on the Marshall Project blog.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

The YouTubers who manage those channels know how to tell a story and they are experts in their field. Impact—Do their ideas and insights make a difference? For example, discounts on meetings or membership in exchange for an article or an appearance.) But I have learned a few things about each of those topics.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

This article goes through some of the larger trends and audience research around cryptocurrency owners. This volatility may become a huge difference from traditional fiat giving trends that show that Q4 is when most donors choose to give and lock in profits/losses in equity markets. Different Terminology .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Since this is an article on using AI to write, we asked Google’s Bard, “What is the difference between ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Bing Chat?” It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. For free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This article is for those who had to shoehorn COVID banners and announcements on an inflexible website template. If you offer many different paths on your site, a good strategy is to let users pick their own way forward. There are two different places where copy length variation can happen: 1) Content that is frequently updated.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

When writing a story to raise money, an essential part of the story is a conflict. A problem or conflict in a story naturally builds a case for giving. However, many students and clients I work with compare their cause with others and doubt that they have a compelling enough conflict for a story.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Has your non-profit told stories? Are you trying to figure out how to get better results from the stories you tell? You’re in for a treat in this article as we’re going to talk about how to find your next best step in non-profit storytelling. We don’t want to tell stories just for the sake of telling stories.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

Comment on a news cycle story that relates to your non-profits work A great way to connect with your organization’s community is to comment on any ongoing issue or news that might be happening at a current time and that might be related to your organization’s cause. 10 ENGAGING NON-PROFIT NEWSLETTER IDEAS 1.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofits have found success by having a more universal message this connect to the story of any mother/father and it is rather than mentioning the person specifically – “Mother’s Day Gifts that Remember her And honor her Memory” (this message has been found to be 43% better at triggering donations when combined with another color).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

Tweet or Facebook your favorite story about the ocean or share an ocean conservation link with #oceanLoveEarl hashtag. Please join me in a special online tribute to my Dad on July 3 and share your favorite ocean story using the hastag #OceanLoveEarl. A Few Wonderful Stories. In Loving Memory of Earl Kanter MD.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Heart-warming human-interest stories. You must have stories ready to share about people whose lives have been significantly impacted by the work your nonprofit does. Donors and prospects want to know that your organization makes a difference, and the best way to show that is to tell a story. Visitor-friendly website.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your donor engagement strategy may outline different recognition tiers by gift amount ($50 donations receive a shout-out in your newsletter, and $250 donations receive a plaque, for example). Report: Report back to donors and share how your nonprofit is making a difference. Asking about donor motivations. Encouraging conversations.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

when Kathy’s had her second cup and is dying to find the right Facebook article to forward off to her dedicated crew of colleagues who rely on Kathy for the perfect morning meme or share-worthy article. You won’t always need characters, story arcs and symbolism that would make Fincher blush. You could’ve posted it at 10 a.m.,

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A 2013 article from The Guardian suggests that using negative emotions such as guilt doesn’t lead to long-term giving, but reward emotions such as pride or belonging do, as they enable people to enjoy giving. These uplifting stories burnish your brand and are more effective over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

These can be very different. If you serve kids with special education needs, create articles on special education. You can also comment about news stories that relate to your mission. Make sure you ask for a link back to your website at the end of the article. It cares about keywords. Don’t guess on keywords.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2016

That's because these aren't just children's nursery rhymes; they're sticky stories, or stories that stick with you for decades. When we were children, we all knew how important stories were. And I don't mean rhymes, but really high-impact, emotional stories, true stories. Understand Your Goal.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

It’s about telling your story in an authentic way that fans the flames already burning in people’s hearts. This is why stories are so important. Good fundraising stories are full of emotion and draw people in. Ok, see the difference in a good Ask and a bad one? Remember that giving is an emotional act.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This is a two part article on how to create fundraising systems for your nonprofit. Let me tell you a story. There are lots of different fundraising systems your nonprofit can (and should) have in place: A prospecting system. In Part 2, we will show you how to create systems at your organization. A cultivation system.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference. We recommend analyzing the profile of people who gave to the previous year-end campaign to see if it’s somewhat or even dramatically different from an overall donor profile. Similar questions can be asked of pandemic ”crisis donors” and monthly donors.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In this article I hone in on two critical factors for fast tracking end-of-year fundraising strategies. From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol , to the Chinese New Year just after the western one, the three kings of the nativity story, the secular tale of St. Telling a mission success story. Invest in your donors.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

There are many problems with this which is the subject of a different novel… The purpose of this guide is to help organizations take advantage of this truth. Feedly.com is a tool that helps search and organize news across many different outlets. Sprout Social or Hootesuite tools to schedule out posts to personal profiles.

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Bloomerang

JULY 14, 2023

You don’t have to come up with a different purpose for different amounts. Include a donate link in e-news, blog articles and social media posts. This is especially useful in stories highlighting the impact of donor dollars. Ideally, if the donor selects the “one time” option the amounts would change. Make it prominent.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

But there must also be a different way to understand the nonprofit CFO role, by asking what questions plague the minds, hearts, and souls of today’s nonprofit CFOs. Proactive, strategic planning and informed cash management maximize momentum and tell forward-thinking financial stories.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

There has been a ton of discussion and articles written about how to successfully build, retain, and engage onsite, remote, and hybrid workers. There is no shortage of different tactics that can be deployed depending on the current landscape of your workforce. The most natural place to start is with connection.

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