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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

Storytelling is an invaluable tool for non-profits. But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner. What is storytelling? I want to take a minute to differentiate story from storytelling.

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2 Email Templates to Soft Launch Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Campaign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. Include all necessary tools to fundraise, if applicable. Be specific in your storytelling. Provide a point of contact to answer any questions. Share how this campaign will impact a particular beneficiary.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Consume information voraciously without obsessing about its practical applications. What Is Growth? McKinsey & Company.

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Google Ad Grants for Nonprofits 102

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Nonprofits must then go through the application process. Being in control of website storytelling is key and nonprofits should continue to add new pages and content regularly to showcase impact and provide new keyword opportunities. Structure accounts accordingly. How do nonprofits get started? It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

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Transmedia Storytelling and Co-Creation Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Reframe, commit, and expand: How to meaningfully invest in Black leaders

Candid

This requires funders to examine their practices including grant applications, reporting requirements, decision-making structures, and program design to determine whether they reflect the inequities they seek to eliminate. Here are three actions to take to commit to funding Black communities and leaders for the long-term: .

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects. Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Massachusetts, California. Bernard Osher Foundation. Areas served: Atlanta/Georgia.

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