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6 Ideas for Using the Instagram Donation Sticker to Raise Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. .

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Nonprofit Content Marketing in 2015: Storytelling and Visual Content Top the Charts, But What Else Did We Learn?

Connection Cafe

They’re trying more tactics, using more social media platforms, growing in their internal knowledge and skills, and focusing on becoming better storytellers. In fact, sixty-six percent of nonprofits are focused on becoming better storytellers and sixty-three percent are working on creating better visual content. Funders are searching.

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How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal

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For example, if you’re a literary nonprofit, you may have the following budget priorities you’re looking to cover with grant funds: Honorariums to pay authors for participating in your reading series. These materials often include: Board of directors list, including names, short bios, term lengths, and contact info. Mission statement.

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Unicef’s Little Bet on Pinboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, I had the honor of keynoting the Social Good Brasil Conference and one of the other keynote speakers was Peter Sims, author of “ Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries.” It really came to life when we started to build in the authenticity and storytelling we could offer from our own skills.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

We sent several of our best representatives to meet our fellow nonprofits and take in the latest tech info from the sessions. Steve MacLaughlin, VP of data analytics at Blackbaud and author of Data Driven Nonprofits , broke down what successful nonprofits do to manage big data. Obey the Simple Truths of Digital Storytelling.

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Where to Find Great Free Music for a Video

Tech Soup

Note: the author of this post is not trained as a lawyer, so if you need expert advice, please consult one. Want more info about finding music and creating videos? That said, FMA currently has 46,000+ songs licensed for use in videos … so we're confident you'll still find something suitable.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

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Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts. Pass along an update from one of them.

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