Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Don’t rely too much on gimmicks or guilt.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In fact, having funding sources before you apply for a grant gives your organization credibility, making you stand out from the applicant pool. Writing about your organization will feel like second nature, and a lot of applications have similar, sometimes identical criteria.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

These surveys—more than 75 to date—all help tell the story of the pandemic’s continued impact on the sector, including how needs and responses have changed and what funders and nonprofits expect moving forward. In the year since the outbreak, we have continued to track surveys from around the globe.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

For decades, storied independent organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Communicate a clear story. Such programs predominantly include addressing homelessness and food insecurity, as well as improving nutrition and exercise. Healthcare is complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

He shared his story about what it was like to live in poverty his entire life, and had never finished high school. I got several applicants from that event alone as well as donations and insight from other service providers and after the event I was featured in the New York Times , I received a lot of other applicants.”. “I

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sharing your stories makes people want to get involved and help. They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant. If you build it, they will come” is definitely not applicable to fundraising!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. The story of that passion in action brings in the donations that pay for your programs and services, which have an impact and change lives. Avoid jargon, acronyms and insider talk.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Rituals are repeated behaviors that foster a positive work environment and tell a story about your organization’s culture of philanthropy. Every morning, clients, staff, and guests gather in a circle in the organization’s meeting room and answer a question of the day and share inspiring stories of growth and change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Image Alt Tags – If your website uses pictures to tell a story, help search engines understand this story by using “alt” attributes on your images.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Katabi, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I’m talking to organization that have inspiring stories, are doing incredibly important work, and have very real opportunities for the community to join in action. They don’t focus on a dollar number, they focus on the women’s stories and communication all that they wish they could do. But I’m not talking to random individuals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. About the Success Stories Contest. You might think you'd never do that. America: A Wasteland of Plenty.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

New applications and technologies. on homeless issues, access to healthcare, or wetland preservation are. story on how a new technology worked or didn't Share it with us in the comments. note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Consult your.

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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. . Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

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. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

No matter what outlet you think might suit your target audience best, here are two tips that can help you work with the media to recruit volunteers: Pitch a story. Frame your need for volunteers as a story that reporters or bloggers can tell and share with their audiences. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling.

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EveryAction

MARCH 29, 2023

This campaign ultimately generated 28 million impressions and 140 completed grant applications! If it’s not during an ‘on’ moment, consider collecting stories and reiterating the importance of resilience-building, which we define as growing our community’s ability to come together and respond to problems or hardships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." " What do you think? Commentary from Michelle Murrain Allan Benamer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

tools and business applications for it. From a presentation by www.jamkit.com Pre and post-election blog by homeless writer as campaign tactic [link] Greenpeace Ocean Defenders campaign ???weblogdirect However, I'm willing to bet that many of the same people and their kids use web 2.0 apps to a community centre for Bangladeshi women.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. They do a wonderful job of showing the impact of their services by telling personal stories of the people that they have helped. s homeless population.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

The series is based on the true story of a single mother who flees an abusive partner only to meet obstacle after obstacle as she navigates a system that’s ostensibly meant to protect and provide for her and her young daughter. Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Tell your nonprofit’s story. Regardless of the segments you’re catering to or the channels you decide to use for your strategy, it will be important to tell your nonprofit’s story as you seek donations, volunteers, event attendees, and more. However, you’ll also need to focus on how to tell your story.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate. not a jet.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How do I navigate and write grant applications? How do I navigate and write grant applications? And the “How do I navigate and write grant applications?” So what are some of the main questions I hear from folks like you? They want to know, “How do I know what to apply for? You can select as many as you want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. API stands for Application Programming Interface, but don???t Adding a new data point to it. Another example. Networking Insight Blog.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. It’s writing the application.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

Just realize that a sponsor is definitely going to want to know all about the positive impact your organization has on your community, so annual reports, client stories, and metrics like a donor’s return on investment handy. Dates for event/activities/campaigns, if applicable. Benefits of each level. Cost per level. Initiative.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In many ways, we just reversed the analog approach, holding too tightly to digital technologies, applications, and online communication options. There were so many new platforms and applications that provided tools for everything from communications to fundraising, outreach to development, and much more. Digital Tools. Holistic Tools.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” That’s where you reach out and you say, “But let me tell you the story, let me put a human face on that. ” And I asked them, “I want some quotes from clients,” or, you know, “give me some stories,” and they’re like, “oh, we need to go and we need to go capture those.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This workshop will dive deep into the lessons and real stories found in the free eBook Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign. The Power of We: Harnessing the Science of Stories to Break Down Silos and Win as a Team. That’s what we love about stories. The stories we tell and hear help answer the “why?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. That is really where the origins of the work came out of. That can happen all over the country.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Supporters need multiple ways to get involved, and your site should make it clear and easy to get started with a donation, volunteer application, adoption, or fundraising page setup. The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society works to improve the lives of homeless and in-need animals across the Ontario region. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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