Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Last week, I was honored to host a virtual roundtable for a small group of nonprofit marketing and communications executives on The Art of Storytelling & Brand Identity. Harold led an exercise that challenged us to find ways to be more intentional with our storytelling. About the Author. Cristina Jones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Show real humans talking to the camera through videos and storytelling. Ask followers for input on an upcoming campaign or what they want to see more of on your platforms. Collaborate with partners and influencers. Joint campaigns, takeovers, and shoutouts expand your reach to new audiences in an organic way.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A lot of time, effort, and preparation goes into ensuring end-of-year campaigns produce all the funds needed for organizations to sustain their important missions. Leverage the power of storytelling to add extra personal detail to your supporters’ donations and foster a deeper bond with your sustaining level donors.

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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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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. Telling a good story can influence the mindset of the audience, and this explains why a lot of businesses today are using this tool to market their brands to their potential customers. Evaluate your Campaign.

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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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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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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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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

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. This approach leads to marketing campaigns that are aimed to educate, enlighten, and inspire your audience to participate in your mission instead of simply buying a product.

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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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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. If you’d like to talk about your next campaign, contact us.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2015

Your nonprofit is crushing it - running great campaigns , sending awesome emails (that are actually making it to inboxes ), engaging influencers in your space, and generally doing a stellar job at storytelling - and you're getting recognized for all of your hard work!

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Jack Harries understands the power of storytelling. Whether campaigning for the future of our planet, directing documentaries, or creating content that spotlights global issues, social empowerment and environmental education are at the core of Jack’s work. Here are some of the highlights of our programming at Davos this year.

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TechImpact

APRIL 28, 2014

Step 3: Decide who you want to be attractive via social media, and focus your campaign around targeting them. It is important when doing any social media campaign that your define a target audience. With over 1 billion users on Twitter and Facebook, you need to target a demographic to influence to start your campaign.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

From the summer to the end of the year in 2022, the program grew in size, scope, and influence—with lessons we can apply to nonprofit volunteer efforts of all kinds. Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

To give one example, let’s say you’re struggling to convince your team that a direct mail campaign is worth the investment. When talking to your team about the benefits of direct mail fundraising, it’s important to consider factors that might influence the data. Combine your direct mail campaign with a product fundraiser.

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Share Their Stories: Launch storytelling campaigns to showcase the success stories and challenges Latinos face in your community. Power in Partnerships: Collaborate with Hispanic businesses or influencers for events or initiatives. These narratives can inspire and educate. Flipcause is here to help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2014

The founder of Twitter himself, Evan Williams, has said that influence on Twitter is not primarily in follower count, but rather in how often a user is retweeted. DoSomething wins Innovation Award for their Do-Not-Text-While-Driving campaign: [link] || #CMF2014 pic.twitter.com/qczdVxLXAO. — @NonprofitOrgs (@nonprofitorgs) May 28, 2014.

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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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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. That’s a wrap!

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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. Upload work projects, such as presentations, videos, or special fundraising campaigns.

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Classy

JULY 28, 2021

Ensure your website and campaigns are mobile-friendly to capture donations from band new donors. Classy allows you to provide four recommended gift size options on your campaign pages, as well as the option to include a prefilled donation amount. You can also use donor segmentation to launch targeted email campaigns.

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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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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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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

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. Our session used the following structure. It as a fantastic discussion.

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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. If you’re new to the social media scene, you might consider partnering with a nonprofit influencer to kickstart your engagement efforts.

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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. Expand your program?

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

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. Using the singularity effect is very effective when it comes to storytelling. Reach out to social media influencers? Spread the word?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

For example, raising $100,000 from 3 major gifts and 2 annual giving campaigns. Making marked progress to change or influence public opinion on an issue work work on -- I won't sugar coat this one, it can be difficult to measure. Interested in storytelling planning resources? Interested in storytelling planning resources?

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

Young people are quickly influencing how organizations communicate and market to all ages , say Feldmann & Yu. To engage with the next generation of donors most effectively, utilize authentic storytelling via social platforms. Direct marketing and communication toward younger audiences. Conclusion.

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