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Judi Sohn of the Colorectal Cancer Coalition: Blogging for Cancer Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. The second thing she did after hiring an attorney to get the organization's tax-exempt status was to hire a well-known cancer blogger for her organization.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. You may include physical photos of the character or describe their appearance. Visual storytelling with photos and videos is extremely valuable when available. The two formed a special bond.

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18 Successful (Yet Untapped) Fall Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

Or simply allow folks to carve in advance and drop their beautiful works of art off to be judged! The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. Today, it’s a household name.

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The Future of Fundraising: Live Interactive Chat Recap

Tech Soup

The discussion featured guest speakers Jen Burton , community director at Causes ; Tom Dawkins , co-founder of StartSomeGood ; and Miles Orkin , national director for mobile and web at the American Cancer Society. Photos: TechSoup for Libraries. Causes' fundraising platform allows nonprofits to tell their story and engage donors.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Start with an accounting of what video and photo assets you already have, and see how they can be put to work for your year-end plans. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

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Keep A Breast: Creative Fundraising for a Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

The Keep A Breast Foundation is a nonprofit organization that creates plaster casts of women's breasts which are customized by fine artists and auctioned off to raise money for breast cancer. You can see photos of the casts here , and a couple more photos of casts in Jill Midthun's Gallery on Blog for a Cure.

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How Nonprofits Can Increase Trust And Funding With Data-Driven Storytelling

Bloomerang

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., or combined with photos of the communities you serve. Coming in at Number 4 of most trusted nonprofits is the Special Olympics, with a website teeming with the art of storytelling.