CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As you build out your appeal, think of the tools, stories, and language your fundraisers might need, and put this together in a toolkit to make sure it’s as easy as possible for them to fundraise on your behalf. Use language from your appeal to set up default appeal content for an individual’s personal fundraising page.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. Because of supporters like you, we were able to provide a stable home for them and their three children during a financially difficult time. “We Make the Ask using as specific language as possible.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Ensuring you have access to the photos and stories you need to paint the full picture. These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language. The images you employ and the stories you tell paint a complete messaging composition. Focus on the individual, not their circumstance.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

I saw the look of hope on the children’s face and how they began to envision a future filled with possibility.” Include a Photo or Video If you don’t have a relevant photo of you to share, consider making a video about why this cause matters to you. Why should they care? Then state why your potential supporter should care.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Yet many nonprofit leaders are intimidated by videos and more comfortable with traditional stories and photos to tell your organization’s stories. Photo or video montage: This is a popular type of fundraising video designed to tug at the heartstrings. Avoid an overly sweet or flowery language or imagery.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? This photo was taken in a library in San Juan. The text reading, “Toys adapted for children with impairments” is part of a PRATP initiative to develop inclusive learning centers for children with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. What a photo find!! I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong. in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Our team recommends employing appends such as age demographics, number of children in the household, interests and hobbies, and communication channel preferences for maximization. By honing in on outcome language – what you alone can do because of the unique impact you make in this world – donors will naturally gravitate toward giving.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

These stories simply exist in our minds until we add language and share them with others. In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. Submit your nonprofit's video or photo for a chance to win cash prizes! Telling a story doesn't have to take pages and pages of text.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The profile picture in the upper left of the Page is cropped and scaled perfectly to fit that space and includes a photo of the same representative health care consumers from the parent site. This page would be strengthened by the addition of some short language explaining the Page's sponsors and purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

On the international front, Catholic Relief Services has strong imagery and a simple message, “Help children and families around the world.” First of all, make sure your language is geared towards your city. They also put a price tag on the attainable monthly donation: “Make a difference for as little as 40 cents a day.”.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Members of the Online Community and Social Media team also captured impressions of the day, keeping a running stream of photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter in real time. The staff have to be very flexible; they talk with the kids in adult language, but always explain as needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. Privacy and Security.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. Virtual tours for museums.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Think of creating an embeddable photo gallery or a place to add videos, all of which can be easily viewed and shared. One great photo with a small amount of copy can say a lot.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

" The organization serves refugee and immigrant survivors of human rights abuses with a team that speaks 25 different languages to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of Mosaic's clients. Every day in October, they post a photo of a Mosaic advocate on social media, highlighting why they #TakeAStand.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Participants in the Summit recognized that if we can overcome challenges of verification, duplication, language, privacy, and culture, we will be in a position to empower the public to share valuable information with all of us. "One person can take a photo. One person can post a message. " People have always wanted to help.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. Photo: Braille reader by iampeas. Touch the Future. This is a listing of nearly 2,000 AT computer products.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

To connect with and provide help and hope to children and adults with disabilities and the families who love them; ??? Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing and other forms of online dialogue (unless posted by authorized Easter Seals personnel) are individual interactions, not corporate communications. Our goals are: ??? Be Responsible.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, are they passionate about charities that support children? When crafting your communications, especially ones that include direct asks, use language that gives your donors a job that only they can do. In these asks, build a sense of teamwork and togetherness by using donor-centric language like “you” and “us.”

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Because of that community support, we are able to provide 125 families each month with the food they need to feed themselves and their children. . Watch their body language and facial expressions to gauge their engagement. Create graphics and content that impart pieces of your message along with fresh photos, stories, and updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

ALYN is a world-class hospital in Israel dedicated to the rehabilitation of permanently and temporarily disabled children. 3) Speak the language of your community. ALYN Hospital. Wheels of Love Branding and Recruitment. Shown here are branded recruitment social media posts and email for this inaugural U.S.-based

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection. I was frustrated by the exclusivity of the gallery world, and I had not seen the success that some photo journalists have by taking a singular image that could change the world!

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

It is downright scary going to a country where none of us speak the language. Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children. Well, that is not a problem if you know Simone, who speaks fluent French! She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

RMHC provides comfort, care, and support for families with children who are sick around the world.” More importantly, avoid technical language or jargon. Photos or videos paired with short but precise details about your donors’ impact are incredibly compelling. Your donation helps RMHC families feel at home.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. They have someone that goes out to take photos, learn stories. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person. This is a stock photo.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 18, 2019

For example, you might say, “Imagine the smiling faces of the children you’ve helped by donating toys.” Instead of saying “We’d appreciate your donation,” you can say “Your investment will help children for years to come.” Receiving photos and updates of the children they’ve helped. Investment”.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And I’ve taken photos and I really like the concept of using them in this presentation just to kind of prompt us to think about the values that people have because that’s really what legacy giving is all about. . This happens to be the website for Jewish Family and Children’s Services, this is one of the programs I set up.

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Classy

APRIL 7, 2021

Their Classy campaign featured language that explicitly called out how someone could become a virtual runner regardless of where they were located. Design thoughtful touchpoints like welcome gifts, quarterly updates, and photos . That helped the page resonate if a visitor was looking to run or interested in donating directly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Makphet Restaurant Vientiane, Laos (and other locations) Makphet Restaurant, photo by Backpack Foodie Like DDD, Friends-International started its efforts in Cambodia and then spread its programs to Laos. Their goal is to help protect vulnerable children. It was great to see his social enterprise in operation!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. But what are the professional opportunities that we can offer our board so that they feel prepared with the language and the skills and the tools to be successful?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali. Right now the CHAG his planning on asking the Malian health system for mosquito nets for all pregnant women and children under 5 in a community of 1400. Photos of Caitlin Cohen and "Woman with Green Door Sikoro" provided by Caitlin Cohen.

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