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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For nonprofit storytelling, conflict really refers to the challenges that need to be overcome or maybe the circumstances that perpetuate the problem. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school.

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Why It’s Time to Rename our Sector from Nonprofit to For-Impact

Saleforce Nonprofit

So if messaging is so important, why is the nonprofit sector referred to by a tax code assigned by the IRS 100 years ago? Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the charitable beneficiary of Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit the Earth, which went into space on September 15, 2021. ??. “If

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Nonprofit storytelling refers to a specific way of communication that organizations use to personalize their mission. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. Dewey’s wife and the mother of his two children was killed in a car accident when the kids were just 11 and 12.

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How to Build Relationships with Your Future Major Donors and Board Members: Millennials

Connection Cafe

Parents fixate on trying to understand their children’s generation in order to better engage and motivate them. Put simply, it’s their drive to be the “cool” parent (I’ll spare my mother any personal embarrassment by recounting childhood anecdotes about that very drive). Take parents, for example.

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Sexual Assault: Resources for Families and Tips for Self-Care

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post references rape, sexual assault and harassment, but also offers suggestions on how to reach out for help, resources for talking with children and self-care tips. Some wounds were fresh; others, like mine, were decades old or took place during childhood. TRIGGER WARNING. by Neil Parekh.

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Research Friday: Out-of-School Time Programs for Latino Youth

ASU Lodestar Center

The term Latino refers to the nearly one in four youth residing in the U.S. While an increasing amount of individuals identify themselves as Latino, most still refer to themselves by their Latin American country of origin. In addition, an increasing number of these individuals are simply referring to themselves as American.