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What You Need in Your Nonprofit’s Fundraiser Toolkit

Classy

Additionally, if your fundraiser toolkit is for a specific challenge, such as an annual walk, you can share a little more about the event, including how and why it got started and its overall timeline. The example below from Hope for Haiti shows how to highlight these tips in a digestible way. Storytelling Examples.

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The New Culture of Storytelling

Forum One

This year's event was held in Atlanta from April 8 - 10, and over 1,400 nonprofit tech folks attended. As always, the event was a blast. I also had the privilege of speaking on another Online Storytelling panel with Roger Burks and Jay Davis. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Qgiv

Planning Your Faith-based Peer-to-Peer Event Building A Compelling Campaign Website Encouraging Your Entire Organization To Get Involved Following Up With Your Supporters Post-Peer-to-Peer Event Faith-based Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Examples: Qgiv Clients. To lead up to and raise excitement for a larger fundraising event.

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees. Hope you will too.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi : most recently, Ushahidi adpated it’s platform for use in Haiti and Chili to let the crowd both in Haiti/Chili and outside share information and data in real time via mobiles or a web browser. Embrace storytelling. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content. Crowd vs Community.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. By re-editing footage they already had to include new material from Haiti, AJWS saved tens of thousands of dollars while still getting a relevant and powerful video asset. Her name was automatically inserted, and all she had to do was share the link.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

SMS text-to-give in the United States experienced a major spike following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 but has never achieved inflated expectations. Peer-to-peer run, walk, and ride events have been around for more than 30 years. Did you get the memo? It was the right medium, but the wrong method.

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