ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Through stories, people can speak out their minds, share wisdom, and pass information to others. Telling a good story can influence the mindset of the audience, and this explains why a lot of businesses today are using this tool to market their brands to their potential customers. Choose the Story Type. Know Your Goals.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. We have to look at what the result overall is – it is not just views for the sake of views or comments and likes for the sake of comments and likes.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Step 1: Evaluate your organization and see if you’re ready to apply for grants. To check if your organization is grants-ready, you should first ask yourself these questions: Can you clearly articulate your mission, vision, and your impact on the population you serve? Tell a story. Step 2: Finding the right grant opportunities.

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Grant Articulate Application Guide 30

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback. Share your story in the comments. Always good to leave time for Q/A at the end for those). Training Design'

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. 2) Does it have design elements that tell a story with words and pictures? (3) Or a new donor responded with bigheartedness to an emergency appeal. .

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Trend Strategy Giving Fundraising 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Articulating measurable goals. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media. Please share your stories in the comments below – you might be featured in the book! Overwhelmed by data collection process. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

With a deep focus on results and sophisticated technology built to match, we see foundations growing their outcomes measurement maturity and shifting how they evaluate grants, from applications through reporting. This is just one story of how data is at the center of fueling greater collaboration and outcomes.

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Foundation Data Measure Dallas 37

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation. Evaluative thinking needs to be built into the foundation of both strategy and everyday operation, and means much more than deploying an annual survey. Impact: Be Rather Than Do.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again. This prompted @jasonricci (CIO at the Energy Foundation ) to reply: IT shouldn't have to "articulate" anything.

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Gartner Org Articulate Leadership 44

DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Conduct research to determine your nonprofit’s story. For example, if you already have a fairly well-developed brand, even if it’s not formally articulated, you may want to avoid making drastic changes that could be poorly received. These questions will help you understand the story that’s currently surrounding your nonprofit.

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Guide Guidelines Nonprofit Mind 52

See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

I don’t have a complete articulation of what that is yet, but two things got my attention recently that feel different. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

Program staff invent guerrilla marketing techniques, run the photobooths and program evaluations, and send out the follow-up emails. Our programming and exhibitions staff work with visitors to co-create a huge amount of stuff--from giant yarn-bomb sculptures to funny breakup stories. We don't "do" much with this content currently.

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Job Marketing Difference Museum 51

Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2013

Consider how you evaluate cover letters and resumes: Misspellings or missed deadlines make it easy to trim your list. You need to clearly articulate your project in a sincere and compelling manner. All of the clichés hold true: tell a story, paint a picture. Grantmakers will do the same. Proposals have to be well written.

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Grant Proposal Articulate Foundation 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Share stories: Celebrate every bar graph that leads to a program or campaign victory. Share it at staff meetings. Also circulate stories about other nonprofits that have become data-driven success stories.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

The pillars range from leadership to management to evaluation for mission effectiveness. The Performance Imperative offers a common definition of high performance, supported by seven pillars of highly effective organizations. So what does a learning culture look like?

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Impact Organization Build Culture 33

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for. Frame your need for volunteers as a story that reporters or bloggers can tell and share with their audiences.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. Even better is to have self-care so finely embedded in the nonprofit’s culture that there is not a need for a separate program, it is simply part of the way the organization works.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

You are writing a compelling story about how you are helping change the world for the better. Donors don’t like duplication of services, and getting grants will be tough if you can’t articulate how your approach is unique. Evaluation Plan. Marketing Plan. Make sure someone is noting which social media posts are catching on.

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The evening closed with an inspirational speech from a board member who articulated our story and our vision for the future perfectly. We still need to write thank you notes to the donors and do a full evaluation at our next board meeting. The Lesson: Have a mixture of elements included in the program. It doesn’t stop there.

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Fundraising Lesson Nonprofit Student 28

sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2023

When you can clearly articulate your goals and needs, turn them into a compelling story , think from abundance while being realistic about your limitations, and foster a spirit of flexibility and excitement, you can develop the right approach for your organization.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it. While there are exceptions, most have a lot of room for improvement. Maybe that includes yours? Are you credible? How did we do it? Lessons learned?

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Communication Online DC Wiki 57

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Create a plan for evaluating the effectiveness of your programs and activities. Regular evaluations will be conducted to ensure that our programs continue to meet their objectives and have a positive impact on our target population.

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Effective Business Create Tips 91

Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. With this in mind, you could include stories in your auction marketing materials that illustrate how your programs have helped kids learn to read. Understand your audience. Social media.

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Storytelling Marketing Create Tips 52

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the world of nonprofit fundraising, stories are more than just words on a page or images on a screen; they are the beating heart of your mission. One of the primary ways we do this is through story. Once you have gathered and analyzed the data, you will have a better idea of how to craft a story that speaks to them.

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Storytelling Impact Arts Nonprofit 82

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. With something like genocide, the "side taking" is fairly soft--but museums like the soon-to-open Creation Museum may be a different story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. His areas of expertise are philanthropic effectiveness, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, evaluation, and social enterprise. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

I tell the story of the one-man band because I think many museum professionals feel like him. I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. As a field, we spend a whole lot of time evaluating patron’s experiences (hopefully). But as a field, we don’t always articulate our work norms to each other.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. Again, integrating your own personal stories can be highly motivating to people. . The only thing that makes you different is your stories. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Keep your ratings and reviews on nonprofit evaluation sites up to date. Learn how to tell a good story about your nonprofit, including an “elevator pitch” version. It might not matter if you’re very effective at serving people, if you can’t articulate that clearly. They’ll judge you on that.).

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Social Media Results Tips Media 127

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Why – THE STORY If your goal is your “what,” your story is your “why” Why did you set the above goal? Why should people contribute toward your goal? Postal Service).

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 102

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. For attendance to be correlated with impact, you have to find a way to articulate a theory of change that connects attendance to your mission (inspiration, learning, civic participation, etc.). volunteers? This summer, the St.

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. Why – THE STORY. If your goal is your “what,” your story is your “why” Why did you set the above goal? Why should people contribute toward your goal?

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Many of my presentations include some visual humor and funny stories. I was also impressed with the report out, not only were they brief and to the point, but they were able to clearly articulate social outcomes in the social media strategy. Evaluation. NGOS in India. This workshop was for the NGO audience.

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 96

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. So how do we evaluate and make decisions about self-censorship? Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor. If you do offend, ask yourself—who do you offend and why?

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