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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. A new era in storytelling for nonprofits Today, many fundraisers are using a new rubric for the stories we tell.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today

The Modern Nonprofit

The authors aren’t just fundraising experts, but also literary and playful in their writing. She was one of the first to publish about using social media for social impact and has lectured at Stanford University. THE STORYTELLING NONPROFIT. Effective storytelling was just the way to do it.

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New Speakers Announced for Cause Camp 2017

NonProfit Hub

Cause Camp is more than two days of lectures, it’s an experience dedicated to education, collaboration and inspiration to keep your (camp) fire alive. She also created the Complete Storytelling System to help catapult nonprofits to unbelievable levels of fundraising effectiveness. And counting.

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Why Nonprofit Stories are the Secret to Success

NonProfit Hub

The author of “ Ask Without Fear! The Surprising Science of Storytelling. Noted anthropologist Jane Goodall said that human beings are “storytelling primates.” The next time you’re at a crowded event or at a lecture, pay attention to what happens when the speaker says, “Now let me tell you a story.”

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. Seattle, Washington: Storytelling Made Easy for Boards and EDs. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Houston, Texas: Net2Houston Refresh!

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10 Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Making On Social Media

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Obviously, I was flattered, but also anxious to deliver a lecture that could bring true value to nonprofit professionals. . Between the visual storytelling opportunities, real time update capabilities, almost all of the same advertising options as Facebook, and 1 billion active monthly users* – Instagram is a no brainer to me.