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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Step 1: Understand story structure.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. are now integral parts of our online communications and fundraising campaigns and like any tools of value, they requite a minimal level of financial investment. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Elizabeth has worked on tons of campaigns for her clients, billion dollars raised. And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And that’s really what I do in my role as a fundraising consultant through capital campaigns. We have a lot of mutual clients and customers.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So I’ve run major capital campaigns as big as $600 million and manage budgets $1.2 And what she offers is structure and strategy to how to become a better fundraiser through doing some of your own self-reflection. . Well, it’s leading those board meetings with that same structure. There’s my bio.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So it allows you to create reports around campaigns, appeals, events. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. But campaigns.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

But the grants could be a really good way to parlay that and thinking about other areas like capacity building or a capital campaign, other things that could be really in line with what grant funding can do to support your organization. Are you going to grow your fundraising campaigns? Are you going to change? So check that out.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

I can think about it as it relates to doing like salary recalibrations, or reviewing PTO, or thinking about a new campaign that’s going to come online and thinking about a new event you want to do, and you get all the way to the end of your event planning and then somebody on the executive team goes, “I don’t like that.”