Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So when it comes to inspiring your donors to support your cause, you might consider creating a nonprofit explainer video for your organization. However, it is also worth noting that in addition to their advantages, producing a nonprofit explainer video often comes with a price tag and can be a time-consuming process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

Volunteers are almost twice as likely to donate to a cause than non-volunteers. Let them engage with your cause and the mission that your organization stands for. You can also give them the chance to make guest blog posts, where they can showcase their experiences with your organization and express why they care about your cause.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Mark your calendars for TechSoup Global's Digital Storytelling Online Event ! The Digital Storytelling Online Event discussions will occur in the TechSoup forums with expert hosts from the webinars. Here's how you can you participate: There are a number of ways that you can engage in the free Digital Storytelling Event.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with your followers. Share stories of your fundraising campaigns and the cause that you’re promoting. Profile Your Supporters & Volunteers You have your volunteers supporting your cause. If they are comfortable, you can even tag them and ask for a repost.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. For example: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement. Upload powerful photos and videos.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Recruit loyal supporters to fundraise for your cause. Start by thinking about the values and themes people associate with the holiday, then find connections between those values and the cause your campaign supports. Recruit loyal supporters to fundraise for your cause. Create holiday-themed marketing materials.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Giving Days bring together individuals, businesses, and organizations to rally support for non-profit causes and amplify their impact. Giving Days not only generate financial support but also help build long-lasting relationships between organizations and their supporters, fostering a sense of trust and commitment to their causes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In our one attempt at soliciting action through social media, we'd tried getting our Facebook fans to donate through Causes, with next-to-no success. For Mercy Corps, that meant storytelling. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN roger burks Social Media Communications. We just had to keep telling our story.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Finding people who genuinely care about your cause is like making a new friend; it takes time and effort. You probably need to be spending more time in these online spaces than you are today: The more active and responsive you are, the more likely it is that potential supporters will see your dedication and become interested in your cause.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 25, 2010

Infographics are to data what storytelling is to an annual report: a more engaging way to help bring attention and understanding to your nonprofit’s cause. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications images application. read more ).

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

By using cause-specific language that clearly conveys the urgency of needs on the ground, you can compel donors to take immediate action through their communications across channels. Visual storytelling through images and videos from the field helps make the crisis tangible and show donors their dollars at work. Tag and thank them.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

Donnie Claudino (pictured), TechSoup Canada's Marketing Manager, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media. He began by sharing his own story: as an American, he found himself wanting to immigrate to Canada and used storytelling to land a job. Tags: Accessible Technology. Simply ask them.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

In addition, be sure to tag the nonprofit(s) you choose to highlight on social so your friends can easily go to their page and learn more. Learn more about getting others interested in your mission by downloading our free Nonprofit Storytelling eBook. Make it a mission moment. Find ways to support these nonprofits. Conclusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2009

The mission of YouTube’s Video Volunteers platform is to connect nonprofit organizations with skilled video makers who can help them broadcast their causes through video, reaching new audiences online and driving action around issues and projects that matter to them. This is your chance to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Jane Goodall Institute: Storytelling on Facebook and beyond with square videos. However, storytelling isn’t enough. It should be. The reason?

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Pamela Grow

MAY 25, 2023

Bloomerang’s peer-to-peer fundraising guide recommends presenting your campaign as an opportunity to get more deeply involved in your nonprofit’s work and become an ambassador for your cause. Consider incorporating storytelling into your recruitment campaign. Individuals who have received support from your organization.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 4, 2018

Cause Camp. We don’t always self-promote, but when we do it’s almost surely for Cause Camp , Nonprofit Hub’s very own conference. Cause Camp is the perfect blend of affordability and inspiration. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Another big kahuna of the industry is the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. " Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nonprofits and cause driven organizations just like yours are now marketing on Tiktok to help raise awareness and support for their missions! Like any other marketing tool or social media platform, TikTok’s value is in its storytelling ability. Brand or cause awareness. How your nonprofit can use TikTok for marketing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fortunately, TechSoup’s recent Digital Storytelling Challenge tweet chat gathered nonprofit video experts and other experienced storytellers to share what works, what channels are best and more. ” Don't Underestimate the Power of Tagging and Keywords. Where to Promote Your Video.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

Her new book, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause,&# is part survival guide and part nitty-gritty how-to handbook for nonprofit communicators. We know storytelling is important for grant applications and fundraising appeals, how is it most useful in marketing?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Some of my favorite causes have captured my loyalty and heart strings through amazing use of video and images. Tags: Accessible Technology Hardware Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Online Seminar Software Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Last year, I blogged about what a hoot the AARP voting video was.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Floodlight, an interesting data storytelling tool for communities is also featured. He says however that a lack of data scientists wanting to work for such social causes may stands in the way of his vision. Data Storytelling. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Data Won the U.S. Now Can It Save the World?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Marnie tagged more than ten really good useful resources, including FullCodePress. Two tagging related posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

Community groups : Very much like the dynamics at play in grassroots cause groups, community groups struggle with the same issues around administration and ownership. I’ve helped local community groups set up Ning communities online as a way to start building resources, connections, and storytelling in a local geographic community.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. The other big news in digital storytelling apps is that Instagram now supports videos in addition to photos. But don't write Montaj off; the app packs some powerful storytelling tools. YouTube Capture (iOS).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

. • In her post, Nonprofit blogs: why this one works , Lisbeth of Nonprofit Execs on the Edge points to 2 keys to a juicy blog: a focus on storytelling and blog posts that aren't staff-generated. Tags: blog. Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit 2.0 If you’d like to be notified about future Nonprofit Blog Carnival submission deadlines, themes, etc.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes. Tags: digital learning resources collaboration nptech resource socialbrite.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

More than 82,000 individual donors made 105,000 donations to nearly 8,000 causes with an average gift of $17.73. Personal connections, compelling use of videos and storytelling, and repeatedly thanking donors for gaining support for causes proved to be important elements for success in the challenge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofits and libraries can use these camcorders to give their staff, volunteers, and constituents the ability to further their causes through digital storytelling in a fun and easy way. Tags: Acquiring Technology Hardware Multimedia & Graphics Tech Planning. Go to TechSoup Stock to check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Be sure to check out Beginner's Guide to Facebook and How to promote your Cause on Facebook articles. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Videos can be used to do anything from providing useful training information to compelling the viewer to act on behalf of a cause. However, whether serious or humorous, videos should feel authentic and true to the organization and its cause. Digital Storytelling Methods: Time and Resources Needed? Neff on video and nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

If you're doing a lot of listening on social media and online, you already know the people who are always mentioning you on Twitter, tagging you on Facebook, or posting about you in blogs and discussion forums. Think about a way you can acknowledge or thank them for being an ambassador for your cause.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2010

From sessions on strengthening neighborhood organizations to becoming better storytellers for your cause, there's something for everyone — from members of your board of directors, your executive director, and your development, volunteer management, and communications staff. Tags: Event Running Your Organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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