Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2018

This is someone who knows how to design a story that gets people thinking, clicking, and acting. This person is charting the path your company will take over time and knows how your business strategy, products and services may change—or not—over the coming months and years. Your preeminent customer whisperer.

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

Here are five ways you can make sure you are communicating your organization’s financial information in a single, efficient story to help your board make effective data-driven decisions. Tell One Story You have a lot to cover during your time with the board, and only one sliver of the agenda in which to cover it.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Using a theme helps you craft a story across your annual report and ensures members and stakeholders connect with your report. In addition to including the statistics, highlight some of your new members, featuring a Q&A that tells their membership stories. For example, did membership increase this year?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Set her heart on fire with stories of real lives and real change – it’s what she wants to know after giving. ONE Success story. Kick off your newsletter by sharing one good story that shows how your nonprofit is making a difference. Don’t let a story go on and on. Less is definitely more. Lots of stats and facts.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you’re reading a blog post with the words “capital campaign” and “board” in the headline, you might be spiraling through questions that are keeping you up at night (hopefully, it’s not 2 a.m.): By now, you should have a defined gift range chart to demonstrate the impact of various giving levels. They know how to get things done.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. And so I would think about your own personal story, why are you here? Why do you care?

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Also, make your stories easy to read by using 18-point headlines and body text that is at least 13-point: nothing is more of a turn-off than a site that requires a visitor to squint. This gives the ability to feature photos and large fonts and highlight important elements that encourage people to act.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell. Twitter and Facebook serve different functions, but two things should always be consistent: your ask and your story. What’s the story? It’s hot.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Select photos that tell a story related to your content and avoid using them purely for decoration. DO include bar charts, pie charts, and diagrams if they support your points. Use your headline to explain what the data reveals and what you want your viewers to know. 7) Visual variety. 9) Data is very powerful.

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