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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Dewey raised them the best he knew how and hoped he did a good job – as most parents do. At the Home, he vowed to do whatever he could to “do good” in his final chapter. Charity Water does an excellent job with storytelling. This video focuses on the founder’s story, and thus, the origin story of Charity Water.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

Work with the new employee to help him/her learn the basic business practices important to the business of working to raise money within a nonprofit infrastructure. Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. Like this article?

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Transition From Event-Based Fundraising to Annual Fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

Keeping staff motivated and raising the big dollars with special events can be an expensive and staff-intensive endeavor that is growing more difficult to sustain in our world’s diminished economy. Today, she is proud to lead the Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an organization new to Annual Funds. Like this article?

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Tap Into Millennial Potential by Creating a Stellar Website

NonProfit Hub

They’re extremely user-friendly and have actually been linked to raising conversion rates if your organization has the means. Plain and simple—they’re a foundation that raises money for childhood cancer research, “because research saves lives.” charity: water. Need inspiration or examples of these tips? Baldrick’s.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Book Giveaway: Twitterville by Shel Israel (140 Characters of Twitterville Fame)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even though it says "businesses" in the title, there is an entire chapter devoted to nonprofits and fundraising on Twitter in the book. Certainly as social media " normalizes " and charities bid for attention in an increasing crowded social space , the future of social media infused fundraising will be different. It's a great read!

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certainly as social media " normalizes " and charities bid for attention in an increasing crowded social space , the future of social media infused fundraising will be different. . Nonetheless, the best practices that Shel outlines at the end of the fundraising chapter will still hold true. But he also has done his homework.

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