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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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As new thinking continues to emerge and donor positioning shifts, ethical storytelling is evolving, and a new messaging strategy, called strength-based messaging , has emerged. The images you employ and the stories you tell paint a complete messaging composition. Listen to the TrueSense webcast: Ethical Storytelling in Fundraising.

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6 Tips to Improve Your Next Fundraising Campaign Using Digital Storytelling

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Storytelling is the currency of fundraising. In the digital environment of email, social media, and mobile, we can use storytelling in innovative ways to inspire supporters and donors — and raise more money. Below are six tips for nonprofits that want to use digital storytelling to engage donors and boost giving.

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3 Reasons Why Pinterest Is Still Relevant for Nonprofits

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Julia Campbell is social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Users pin images, videos, and articles that reflect who they want to be, places they want to travel, things they want to try. By Julia Campbell . 3) Pinterest is aspirational.

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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

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Use these questions to guide your storytelling strategies and then add your text, images, video clips, and even narration to Adobe Spark Video! Distill your message down into a couple of sentences; then use supportive video clips, images, or icons to visually represent your point. About the Author. Image 1: TechSoup.

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Top 10 Sources for Free Images

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There are more places than ever to get free images that are entirely OK for you to use for your communications. Here are 10 sources for images you can freely use on your website or other communications channels. Where to Find Free Images. Google Advanced Image Search lets you filter your search by usage rights.

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Adding high-quality images can also help your SEO, and it’s a great opportunity to showcase your nonprofit’s photos. The age-old wisdom of many authors is that it’s impossible to edit a blank page, but if you have something, no matter how mediocre it feels at first, you can always make it better. Just start.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

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Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Your goal is to make storytelling decisions for your video that will elicit arousing, high-dominance emotions with an element of surprise in the viewer.

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