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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

We tell stories. Stories are the most effective form of communication available because they immediately engage the reader on an emotional level and in a way that is interesting to them. Our neural activity increases 5X when listening to a story. 6 steps to telling your nonprofit’s stories. Act one – Set Up.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to learn more about what I’ll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Talk in images: emojis, symbols, pictures, videos.

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Facebook Live For Nonprofits: How Live Streaming Helped One Org Raise Almost $100K

Connection Cafe

There’s a lot of talk about the ways nonprofits can use Facebook to raise money — live streaming fundraising events, breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. They were busy covering stories on flooding and snarled traffic. How Facebook live helped keep their audience engaged (and raise $100K).

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Whom Should You Trust to Help with Your Nonprofit?

ASU Lodestar Center

Anyone who wants your business can paint a rosy picture about why they’re the best fit for you. That all may be true, but that’s rarely ever the whole story. Does he have a personal connection to cancer or diabetes that would help him write compelling fundraising appeals? Do they follow up after the interview?

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Support IPPF’s mobile health clinics and teams in Haiti!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

   In an email interview, Laura Zaks, Public Affairs Coordinator, shared with me this sad story of devastation and the urgent need for funds to help PROFAMIL resume services through a temporary static clinic and Mobile Health Units to deliver services in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered.

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Use This 2024 Nonprofit Calendar to Plan Your Content Strategy

Neon CRM

A donation-centered message could take the form of several different content types: a heart-warming client story, an graphic-heavy update on an ongoing campaign, a volunteer testimonial, an educational deep dive into a topic of interest, or something completely unique. There are several different ways to inspire donors to give, for example.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. That’s challenging if you’re the American Cancer Society because you’ve got a big, broad anti-cancer mission and it’s hard to drill that back down to Sally’s cancer treatment. That visual success on the first day, that also gives the media another story. It won’t hurt.

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