The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their stories, brimming with passion, resilience, and a rich cultural legacy, are deserving of more than just passive acknowledgment. Nonprofit organizations serve as community leaders and agents of change, and participating in Hispanic Heritage Month can solidify their advocacy for diversity and inclusion.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. Storytelling Storytelling has also become a prominent concept connected to data processes in philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

By Laura Bucher , Storyteller at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. You can use video to tell a story about what donors made possible, take them on a virtual tour of your facility, or spotlight major contributors of your campaign. 5) Collaborate with your surrounding community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Positive news about your mission and programs. There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 24, 2023

Make sure they’ve heard it before you launch your next fundraising or advocacy campaign. A message from a program staff member, beneficiary of your services, volunteer, or board member can be even more powerful. Instead of sending a series of appeals, make storytelling and impact reporting part of your content strategy.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program.

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Kindful

APRIL 1, 2021

On this page, you’ll find their missions and ways to support their important work, as well as resources that talk about how to share difficult stories in a respectful way. How To Leverage The Power Of Nonprofit Stories When You Must Respect Identities – Bloomerang. Collins Center. New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

The challenge is that your campaign will need to promote your organization’s general needs rather than a specific project or program. Tell prospective donors your story and mission to show them why your daily operations are important. Annual giving campaigns, in contrast, don’t point to a specific project or program.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

TechSoup is particularly proud that Adobe products , available through our donation program, were used in the video's production. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final. Our Story of Tomorrow winner, SEEDS final from Seeds of Awareness , succeeds in filming youth at this moment of awakening. This is a powerful idea.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While this story was inspiring, it didn’t necessarily represent the great work SAI did as a whole. With our local partners, we were able to connect with the farms we worked with to quickly distribute water bottles with purification tablets to workers. We were proud to note that through this intervention, there were no reported outbreaks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In other words, data can tell a continuous story that is meaningful, dynamic, and actionable. We were looking for a way to use our quantitative data to tell a visual story and start an ongoing and responsive narrative of our communities and our work; we wanted to answer the "so what?" and "to what ends?"

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Urban League of Portland was established in 1945 making it one of the oldest African American service, civil rights, and advocacy organizations in the region. Black Public Media emerged out of a need for more stories from Black storytellers. Since then, the organization has evolved to address policy issues as well.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

volunteer fundraisers to brush up on your storytelling abilities. . Ask a volunteer to share a personal story from their time serving the organization, or ask one of your clients to share an example of how your organization has benefitted them. Millennial Impact Report. Emphasizing the cause requires you to: . Craig Grella.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Dr. Seuss Helps You Rock Digital Storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

While your organization accounts work to build an authentic community, share your story, and advance your brand strategy, playing the game as it was intended (person-to-person) can drive even more meaningful engagement with your cause. . 7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program. 1) Determine your social media objectives.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2014

Appreciation, Advocacy, and Appeals – your nonprofit’s social media strategy should incorporate them all. In Vanessa Chase’s guest post on npEngage, she wrote on the 7 Ways to Integrate Stories into Your Nonprofit’s Donor Stewardship Strategy. See you in the caravan? yours truly, Madeline.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

This first connection came up for me in the panel I organized on storytelling for movement building. Stacey Monk of Epic Change, Mark Horvath of Invisible People, and Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love, Little Hearts shared their perspectives on authentic storytelling from personal experiences.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 25, 2023

Consider incorporating storytelling into your recruitment campaign. Tell the story of a local college student who was supported by your organization’s scholarship program or a long-time community resident who received aid from your nonprofit after a devastating flood.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

Many of the smaller or emerging nonprofits that I''ve worked with, or even larger brands who are just now getting started with building an online program, only send – or plan to send – about four appeals a year. Good fundraising typically involves: Compelling storytelling tailored to your audience. The Art of Fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But what we’ve also seen are upticks in advocacy behavior, strength in the power of social influencers , and real belief in the capacity for nonprofits to cultivate change , in a world filled with so much uncertainty. The more tangible your stories are around change, the more they will resonate with audiences focused on making that impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

2) Craft a compelling message (behind-the-scenes, a call-to-action, a positive story, etc.). 3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization. 8) Experiment with Facebook Stories. The same is true with Facebook Stories. Perhaps improved storytelling (text, images, videos, polls, stickers, etc.)

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Our generation – those who have grown up with 9/11 memories, women’s marches, LGTBQ advocacy and milestones – have founded Benefit Corporations (B-Corps) like TOMS, launched nonprofit organizations like Period.org, and even won the Nobel Peace Prize for our actions on gender equality and education. But, we’ve chosen to take action!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. Some organizations have focused on storytelling, highlighting the good that comes from the work they do. Local communities were.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

It is the camera that many nonprofits are using to tell their story because they're easy to use and inexpensive (they product giveaway program too). If your nonprofit is exploring the use of the video to tell its story, the technology has gotten so much easier and the cameras a lot less expensive. For example, storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

It installs a program (which was blocked!). The only major glitch I'm having is that when I use the editing program and drop in videos copied to my hard drive, the thumbnails are incorrect so I drop in the wrong clip. There's partner program where your can apply for a camera - it's called Flip Video Spotlight.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For example, Greenpeace Canada and No Kid Hungry : Story Highlight Covers. Third, if your nonprofit regularly shares stories on Instagram, make a strong first impression by creating custom Highlight covers using a graphic design tool or a mobile app. For example, Oceana and the Dogs Trust : Account Category & Contact Information.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Better Online Storytelling Designed by Roger O.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Read the full case study here.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Does your nonprofit have a plan for storytelling this year ? The truth is that nonprofits are still not using storytelling as strategically as they could be. In other words, storytelling is an ad-hoc activity that happens on the side. A key message is the main point you want your audience to takeaway from your story.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

By Colin Holtz and Steve Daigneault, M+R Strategic Services Everyone is talking about "the power of stories" — social scientists, nonprofit directors, your mother, you name it. Nonprofits are adding stories to their fundraising messages. Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Offer a variety of volunteer opportunities from more physically intensive work for your programs to fundraising on your behalf during. Advocacy campaigns. You can advance your campaign and give your supporters a new way to get involved by launching an advocacy campaign. the necessary advocacy software. Tell a story.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. They are natural storytellers and advocates for your organization. It was super interesting.

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