sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards. To improve your planning process and get the best results, use these tips: Align your campaign message with the holiday.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

When asking members of The Storytelling Non-Profit community about their organization’s newsletter campaigns, the top challenge their organizations were facing was to find the right type of content that keeps their audience engaged. Share an impact story A great non-profit newsletter idea is to use storytelling.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

This post offers five ways you can optimize your fundraising campaign and create winning emails as we all prepare for the biggest season for nonprofit fundraising — end-of-year giving. How have they engaged with past email campaigns? Pose a question, tease a story, or make an offer like a matching donation campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Nonprofit budgets are often tight, and each of your campaigns should aim to hit as high a return on investment (ROI) as possible. For each of your online campaigns, your revenue goal should tie into your overall fundraising strategy. A campaign’s inputs include all costs spent on running the campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Storytelling is a strategic tool that has been used since the beginning of humanity to transmit a meaningful message to others. Through stories, people can speak out their minds, share wisdom, and pass information to others. Generating compelling stories is no longer a luxury or a choice for nonprofits. Choose the Story Type.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

We’ll also cover how to frame your pitch to a new match partner and align your expectations upfront to ensure a successful campaign. Influencer. An influencer matching partner is an individual with a large social media following. Once that amount is raised, you can use it to match donations to your campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Personalize these email campaigns to make donors feel appreciated and connected to your cause. Then, leverage SMS campaigns for urgent appeals, event notifications, and fundraising drives, including links to your website or donation pages for quick and easy responses. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Raises more funds by sharing compelling stories about your mission. Most businesses are trying to sell something with their marketing campaigns and don’t need as much of a personal connection with their audiences as a nonprofit would. Increases volunteer engagement through public recognition of their work.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with your followers. Share stories of your fundraising campaigns and the cause that you’re promoting. Do not forget to mention the contribution of your donors in making your campaign a success. Quotes by Influencers Take this opportunity to up your networking game.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2022

Nemours invests in programs and services that benefit the health and lives of children and understands that there are also social, economic, behavioral, and environmental factors that can influence a child’s physical health. What they did: Nemours Children’s Health got creative with Qgiv’s peer-to-peer platform. Request a Demo.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their stories, brimming with passion, resilience, and a rich cultural legacy, are deserving of more than just passive acknowledgment. Share Their Stories: Launch storytelling campaigns to showcase the success stories and challenges Latinos face in your community. These narratives can inspire and educate.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

So much time, effort and hope goes into a nonprofit’s year-end fundraising campaign that when it’s over, staff scramble to use all their remaining vacation days. The good news: You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. well-told story. The bad news: It’s never over.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Video storytelling: Emotionally compelling videos showcasing your organization’s impact can help humanize your cause by showing the real people behind your organization’s efforts. You should segment your donors to get the most out of your email campaign.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts. You can also use tools to target specific audiences for your different campaigns, helping you ensure your reach the people most likely to support your cause. Transparency.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Through a combination of fundraising efforts, community engagement, and storytelling, Giving Days aim to create a surge of donations and raise awareness about the vital work your nonprofit organization is doing. Plan The Giving Day Campaign Consider how you will reach your donors and drive new donations.

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

What story will you tell? The best time to reach out is when you are running a campaign or hosting an event. Storytelling. One of the hottest buzzwords in nonprofit communications right now is storytelling. By the nature of being a nonprofit, you already possess a lot of the qualities for a great story.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

This is where a key supporter of the organization agrees to donate a significant amount of money to a campaign, matching up to a certain amount. Promote the matching gift campaign through various channels, such as social media, email, and events, to increase awareness and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and Cindy Johanson from Edutopia shared some case studies about storytelling and what inspires people to share your organization’s content. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. The campaign leveraged nostalgia.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Social media is an effective promotional tool when used strategically, whether it’s to promote a recurring giving campaign, spotlight your volunteers, or feature an upcoming fundraising event. Or, showcase a fundraising event’s atmosphere on your story to let your supporters experience it virtually.

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Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 16, 2023

Here are 7 ways to make your fundraising campaigns more effective. If you want to increase the impact of your organizations fundraising campaigns, it is key to ask the right question, at the right time, in the right way. Gen Zers are influenced the most by social media when it comes to fundraising. How do you reach new donors?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. For example: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

They will also discuss the many opportunities and challenges that arise from the aftermath of a viral campaign and more importantly the lessons they have learned about replicating the results. You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here. In August, 2015, the second ALS Icebucket Challenge took place.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

Similar to other social platforms, you can follow your friends, creators, influencers, or celebrities. A week-long event called Clubhouse Loves Texas was organized and promoted by some of the app’s biggest influencers. Join the Club(s): Once you have representation on the platform, find related topics, clubs, and influencers to follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Now, instead of relying on brands to market to us as consumers, we’re using the influence of friends and family to make decisions. 5: Collaborative Storytelling Sells. In a sharing economy, your story and the way it’s told is not completely under your control. But this isn’t a bad thing, I swear! 6: Maintain a Human Connection.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Peer-to-peer campaigns lend the perfect opportunity to. Effectively inspiring millennial donors to get involved in your next peer-to-peer campaign requires. Use social media to increase campaign visibility. Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Fundraising plan summary.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In the past few years, we've seen the transformation from long to extremely short-form digital content like that on Vine and Instagram, and we've experienced the rise and fall of numerous storytelling apps never to be seen or heard of again. But how can stories touch hearts and minds if they go unnoticed and unheard?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

One of the most powerful ways in which they’ve done this is by building an online platform that allows people to create fundraising campaigns linked to personal events, such as marathons, holidays or birthdays. Harness the Power of Storytelling. After all, the people on the charity: water team are masters at storytelling.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In addition to the vast amounts of copywriting I do for clients, I also provide strategy work for campaigns. Specifically, what to do before and during the campaign to generate additional awareness. One of the tactics I frequently use is storytelling to increase awareness of a campaign (surprise, surprise).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Long story short, Jeff built a prototype fundraising platform, and we were able to raise more than enough funds to go. Here’s our blog post that explains our story. Our mindset going in was to look at every aspect of the setup and launch of a fundraising campaign and remove what was bloated or confusing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Their campaign is hinged on a compelling story. They choose a multi-channel approach to their campaign. This post will take an in-depth look at these three factors for success and how you can apply them to your campaign this year. Your message, story, and ask must be coordinated across all of these channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

The storytelling was engaging and compelling. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. The Kony campaign is actually bigger than even its highly noble mission. ” Is that that the story?) What was your source?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

This year, the story-focused TechSoup member organization is premiering a new website for the campaign that allows DIY interviewers to share their stories with the public, similar to the interviews hosted on the official StoryCorps website and featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

“Map out the story you need to tell. The most successful campaigns begin with research. Another participant from the Greatest Generation achieved tremendous success through her campaign. Emily and Joe recommend to begin with planning before you ever look at your data. Collecting and maintaining good data is key to this.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Information Sharing and Storytelling. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Offer profile/success stories for employee communications. Their ability to influence peers over time is the type of champion you want and need.

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