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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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While we are definitely not experts (every day we discover something new), we wanted to share what we have learned over the past year doing social media video. While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. It started as a 90-second video script.

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[Guide] Creating Video for Nonprofits

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

We shared Yash’s invaluable insights on digital storytelling and we couldn’t resist sharing his advice on creating compelling videos. Aside from music, the quality of your audio is really key. It’s okay for the footage to be blurry or black and white, as long as the audio quality is great.

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How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Movie Production Studio In 6 Easy Steps

Global Giving

By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Try writing a script with a two-column approach. Find your story. Start with your audience.

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

Get Fully Funded

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. What is needed to make this better? So, What’s Your Story?

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The Making of "Product Demo - Mobile Beacon" Video

Tech Soup

While not every nonprofit needs to invest the resources to make scripted videos, we wanted to try the new format to better serve our audience, particularly the different learners coming to our site. I wanted to share some behind-the-scenes information on how we made the product demo video for one of our donation programs, Mobile Beacon.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 13 Now Available

Tech Soup

Adobe designed this bundle for users who are just getting started with photo and video editing and want a simple way to edit and share photos and videos on their computers or mobile devices. The Elements applications are simpler alternatives to Photoshop and Premiere Pro that share many of the features of the larger products.

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Kickstart a Video Campaign with this Simple Process

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When in reality, you and I can produce and share videos with a few simple tools that we likely already have access to. Audio Recording/Microphone (phone or webcam). Step 2: Write a script. This leads to the mentality that you need to hire an agency, and that the costs will be too high to actually implement. Non-Member?

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