Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. And how do you tell a good story? At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that.

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Kindful

APRIL 5, 2021

You’ll need to determine what you are trying to convey to viewers: Are you trying to tell your story? Story and mission video. Story and mission video. This video is a general synopsis of your nonprofit and should give the audience a better understanding of what you do and who you serve. Call-to-action video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Know your audience’s goals and mindset. Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. How they use this technique : They understand their audience is ready to help and offer relevant choices. In practice: 1) Civil Voices.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

Use relevant hashtags in your caption to expand your audience and bring in new supporters. Share stories from your beneficiaries : Highlight impact stories from real people you’ve helped in the community to establish your organization’s credibility and emotionally appeal to supporters.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Many organizations have to strategize around limited budgets while trying to reach the largest audience possible to get their mission out there. Raises more funds by sharing compelling stories about your mission. Nonprofit marketing goals often focus around building recognition, fostering community, and increasing your funds raised.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Showing impact numbers and, more importantly, stories keep donors informed and engaged. It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone.

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Kindful

JULY 22, 2021

The target audience. Provide as much info as you can about the target audience. The more your fundraising writer understands them, the better they can communicate specifically to that audience. The more your fundraising writer understands them, the better they can communicate specifically to that audience.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One transformed Truman.gov into a streamlined design that is tailored to each of Truman’s main audience groups: scholars, candidates, and faculty representatives. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three). American Council of Learned Societies.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

During Women’s History Month, we are excited to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. Telling stories through images of empowerment. This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge because a challenged world is an alert world.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. The outcome was an immensely successful event that attracted audiences from all corners of the country.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

Great content will help inform your audience and provide critical resources to both supporters and the people you serve. Develop your brand voice. Before you get started in building a content strategy, you should first ensure you know your brand voice. So, how do you create a content strategy? And what should it include?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Storytelling is important because it helps your audience better understand and connect with the work you’re doing. In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Hook your audience. Segment donors. Send personalized communications.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

Storytelling is important because it helps your audience better understand and connect with the work you’re doing. In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Hook your audience. Segment donors. Send personalized communications.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. On the website, a similar story — we doubled our revenue.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Nonprofit membership programs can help your organization raise money, build your network, and give members a louder voice in your organization or community. Target audience. Member management software not only keeps track of your members, but also member demographics, preferences, and their history with your organization.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. Build a tool for your audience that helps with a task. Build large training guides on a given topic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

“Frank” (who anonymously shared his story with us) has always been an avid reader, but the progression of his neuromuscular disease to his arms made reading difficult. Few were available, and he had trouble with the ones that were: they’d often be in a format that didn’t work well with his voice recognition software.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. ” For nonprofits, this shows the value of thoroughly researching your donors’ demographics, history, and motivations before crafting appeals. A relatable human voice connects. Helping real people should be the star.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

An organization, company, or other entity can have all of the diversity numbers in the world, but until everyone feels included and that there is a place and voice for them, it is all for naught. Most importantly, we must connect DEI Strategies directly to fundraising impact through data, research, and success stories.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Finalize your beneficiary story (or stories). you spent time speaking with beneficiaries to gather stories of how their lives are better as a result of your organization’s work. In September, you decided on the story and wrote the first draft of your direct mail appeal. Want more tips to boost your fundraising efforts?

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Our review of the application uncovered interesting facts about the founding history, challenges, missteps in designing for accessibility, and potential in the application’s future product mapping. Clubhouse enables organizations to take a new approach to how they communicate their missions and engage with their audiences. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We did three things to supplement Belle''s paintings (installation shots here , peopled shots here ): We issued a call to locals who are immigrants, or whose family immigrated, to share an artifact and story with us. We mounted those objects and stories alongside visitor-contributed suitcases. The clotheslines were always full.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2012

(As Frank Barry wrote in his post , choose a photo that keeps your brand in mind, but also shows off your culture, history, mission, and values.). Know your story, audience, and goals. How can you bring your story to life in a compelling and genuine way? How to Find Your Voice. Share candid, personal stories.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? The objects were interesting, the stories surprising. They catered to different audiences. That work showed in the human voices and stories throughout the museum. Both of these museums delivered incredible experiences for me and my husband.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. You now have exactly two minutes to concoct the epic love story that brings together the two characters you’ve chosen.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

We'd previously worked on games of this scale, had used video in previous projects and had produced our own stories in animated and game form, but this was the first project that brought all these things together on such a grand scale. This audience spends a great deal of time online, often playing games.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Yes and no.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, if you’re hosting a peer-to-peer fundraising event on a college campus, having college-aged volunteers will help you better connect with your target audience. 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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Not your voice.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Showing that their voice matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Take a minute and jot down all of the breakthroughs in communications history you can think of. Who has been in charge of, and in control of, telling our collective stories? This is why history needs you. We need you to create and share your stories.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. This isn't unique to audience participation; it's a reality that any new project or course of action stirs up all kinds of anxieties about organizational change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. I think the publishing industry has a long and proud history of being willing to help people with disabilities, and authors are equally willing to support this as well. Roy Blount Jr.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

All you have to do to get to them is scan and skim through a brief history of why we think nobody reads on the web. The Built-in Nonprofit Advantage People read what they're interested in, and almost by definition, our core audiences are interested in what we do. That's okay: "Everybody" is not a target audience.

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