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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. In a small village in India, 9 year-old Fatima lives in a tiny hut with her parents Priya and Amit. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. Setting: This is where your story happens.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To prove that point, this video tweet from @WildlifeSOS that tells the good news story of a nail-biting rescue of a leopard in India received very high engagement compared to their other tweets: 4. Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions. 6) Respond to and engage with followers.

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6 Ways to Get Your Nonprofit Website Ready to Boost Holiday Giving

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But the time you spend now optimizing your website is an investment in your year-end fundraising results and you should see a good return on that investment. Because you have such a small amount of time to grab your reader’s attention, you need to catch their eye immediately. So, what exactly does an optimized website look like?

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. Pay attention to your community. So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology. It’s the same with any platform.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. How is your nonprofit future proofing its fundraising strategy? Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel.