Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Virtual bbcon 2020 is fast approaching, with thousands of nonprofits registrants, many of whom are fundraising, communications and marketing pros like yourself: ready to expand your vision with fresh ideas and actionable inspiration! From Insight to Action: Using Analytics and Benchmarking in Fundraising Strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post Calls to Action. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. A call to action can be an urgent donation pitch, a request to sign an online petition, or a call for volunteers. A first-person voice is best.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Webb writes that technology can help people take immediate action in a cause, such as post-disaster notification apps. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Challenge. Online tools and platforms can help organizations strengthen existing constituent relationships and reach new audiences. A Few Good Blogging Tools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

You want to create a story that is emotive and drives people to take action. For SXSWCares , a crowdfunding campaign for disaster relief, we worked with the press to get featured in CNN, NYTimes, Forbes, AdAge, and more. This allows for compelling storytelling. Crowdfunding starts with a compelling story. Include a video.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Standing on the brink of the 4th Industrial Revolution , this was certainly a year of transformation, from a changing political landscape, to a string of terrible disasters, to new technologies impacting how we engage with our supporters. 2017 is no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways. Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Live social actions in gameplay include scavenger hunts, games connected to events, and crowdsourcing energy for new actions. (EH,

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Now that you’re back in the office, digesting all of this new information, are you wondering how to prioritize action steps or communicate best practices to your peers? As our speakers in the session focused on “data-driven storytelling” highlighted, analytic reports don’t replace meetings, but they can certainly help them.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We’ve already seen significant fluctuations in US giving behavior over 2017, with the change in presidential administrations , natural disasters and several moments in time in between – all which would otherwise point towards a more precarious situation for Giving Tuesday and end-of-year fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre teamed up with Parsons The New School of Design’s PETLab to develop Games for a New Climate , a series of games about disaster preparedness in the face of flooding, drought, and other climate change issues. Games for a New Climate. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post Calls to Action. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. A call to action can be an urgent donation pitch, a request to sign an online petition, or a call for volunteers. A first-person voice is best.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

natural disasters), as well as peer-to-peer fundraising, can help spur her to donate. Personalize through storytelling : To get young Americans invested in a cause, make a personal connection through storytelling related to the nonprofit’s. Clear information and immediate need (i.e.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

Storytelling as it pertains to Fundraising. dmarx from Energy Action Coalition gave a really awesome presentation at Google this week on how he and his team are using online tools to not only communicate / collaborate as a team but also using those tools to communicate out to members of their coalition and the voting public at large.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Storytelling in a sound-off world. The notion of storytelling might seem grandiose. Video works exceptionally well on Facebook, so you want to extrapolate as many stories you can and tell them in short (think 30 – 120 second long) videos that inspire action. Did you know that Facebook is viewed mostly on mobile?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The mission of IMPACT is to connect, educate, and mobilize college students, nonprofit professionals, and educators to strengthen their communities through service, action, and advocacy. MCON is about turning interest into action. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit. Feb 22 - 24.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

This book will reveal what the data tells us about modern donors and their giving habits , as well as a step-by-step playbook of actions you can take right now to improve your current fundraising tactics. . Take action. Free Download: Your Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling. Download the 2021 State of Modern Philanthropy Report.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. Quote out of context” — now here’s the context An out-of-context quote gives your reader a reason to keep reading in order to understand, and a quick way to dive into storytelling.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Storytelling is an essential component of fundraising , and especially so when it comes to mobile fundraising. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling? When it comes to storytelling with mobile fundraising, make sure to put your donors at the center of the story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Nonprofits are familiar with writing blog posts that provide program updates, tell success stories, comment on breaking news and current affairs, and promote calls to action. You should also preface your photo essay with one or two descriptive paragraphs and close your essay with a call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Climate Reality did this by building a Facebook chatbot designed to educate supporters and build the organization’s email list to sign up for action alerts. Emotions have always had an appropriate place in storytelling for fundraising, we give because we are empathetic beings. Where is the line between cultivation and manipulation?

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2019

As most fundraisers know, the key to getting people to care about a cause is through storytelling that conveys not only the issues, but demonstrates the real-world impact an organization is making to solve problems. What better way for a nonprofit to show their tangible impact than through strategically placed photos/videos on Instagram?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2017

In the days leading up to, and months following the inauguration, large-scale media coverage of a variety of issues and causes piqued the interest of advocators, and provoked widespread action. Media’s rampant impact on donor awareness and action. is a good first step towards a more operationally nimble process.

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