Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Use insights from the motivation-based research to create donor personas—or an archetype of your ideal donor that defines their basic characteristics like demographics, preferences, and attitudes. Consider incorporating these strategies into your preliminary concepts for the campaign: Leverage storytelling. Choose impactful visuals.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2014

It’s part attitude on their part, and part training and onboarding on (y)ours. In Vanessa Chase’s guest post on npEngage, she wrote on the 7 Ways to Integrate Stories into Your Nonprofit’s Donor Stewardship Strategy. Internships. We’ve been there and we’ve hired for that. See you in the caravan?

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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. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller. Diverse Goals. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We often hear about the doing good movement in the context of millennials , and oftentimes Gen Z’ers, two generations that have demonstrated substantial shifts in attitude surrounding the belief in their own power to create positive change in the world. Tips to Apply this for Your End-of-Year and 2018 Strategy : 1.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

One of the best parts of developing a book is learning new stories. For me, the early stage of writing a book is a treasure hunt--an excuse to seek out new examples and ideas that strengthen the story. Since we're "telling the story of America through structures," how in the world do we tell this one?

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Achieve

MARCH 19, 2015

As a nonprofit professional, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that storytelling – sharing the real stories of real people whose lives were enriched by your help – is the best way to reach potential donors. More and more, causes are using stories in their solicitations. In a study.

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Bloomerang

MAY 18, 2021

In other words, there is no real “method to the madness” but just a “hope for the best attitude.” Will you be sharing emotionally-engaging stories ? Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2021

Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to communicate. And, football coach Bill Courtney tells many compelling stories in his book, Against The Grain. The 2011 Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated , (Best Documentary Feature) tells his story of how he inspired his teams on and off the field. A real "gut check."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2014

Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to communicate. And, football coach Bill Courtney tells many compelling stories in his new book, Against The Grain. The 2011 Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated , (Best Documentary Feature) tells his story of how he inspired his teams on and off the field. A real "gut check."

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. Again, integrating your own personal stories can be highly motivating to people. . The only thing that makes you different is your stories. .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Checklists.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

With social media as with communications strategies, the data points are those that will help measure: awareness, attitudes, actions, or behavior change. Create one video per month to tell stories about the impact of our organization by January, 2012. Recruit 40 organization.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

Marc digs telling better stories, creating art and changing people. Digital marketing, nonprofit strategy, & storytelling. The Three Attitudes of Sustainable Fundraising. Here are three attitudes that these new fundraisers will adopt to thrive: 1. By npEXPERT Marc Koening. The answer might surprise you. Not happening.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2015

Steve MacLaughlin is always great at getting at the story behind the numbers, so this session should be educational even for those who tend to shy away from head-swimming data. Advanced Level Storytelling: How to Combine Your People Stories and Your Money Story. have heard about the importance of storytelling.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I’ll say at the beginning of the pandemic, there were so many stories of friends and family who were being like go, that there was a culture of uncertainty and through this whole last year, there’s been a period of navigating through uncertainty, which I think is challenging overall. Storytelling is just so important to me.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

It combines personal stories with a sense of being part of something bigger. The story we tell together may not be profound or historically significant, but it's intriguing for its diversity of style and content. Both of these barriers are easily overcome, not with dollars or equipment, but with a change in attitude.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Two things struck me about these exhibitions: the prominence of story and the individual creator. What Taren is describing is not an individual's vision but an individual story, namely, that coolness and cooler-ness are valued and supported by her organization. The exhibitions that change our lives share this same oneness of story.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Use a you-attitude throughout the document. A you-attitude is all about presenting accomplishments as your donors’ rather than your organization’s. This story illustrates the benefits of a traditional report format.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

The JustGiving team is always great about sharing stories, lessons, and insights – so I'll be watching to see how this new tool goes! Users may vote the crowdsourced ideas up or down. By integrating Google moderator, YouTube has brought real time engagement features into play and made it 100% more engaging."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2017

While we’ve seen what some may consider unconventional presidential elections in the past, none have impacted giving attitudes as much as the election of President Donald Trump has. Turn on any of the local or national news channels at all points of the day, and the stories almost always revolve around an event related to President Trump.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. Social media is about storytelling, and so is the movement toward LGBT equality. Social media is about storytelling, and so is the movement toward LGBT equality. But I would go a step further. Here’s why: 1.

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