Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Leverage storytelling to build a base. Leverage storytelling to build a base. Where do they live?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From digital strategy and communications trends to preparing for Drupal 10 and Google Analytics 4, here are 5 of our most-read blogs from 2022: Mapping Your Digital Ecosystem. Data Storytelling That Deepens Engagement: NYU’s City Health Dashboard. A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 10. Digital Impact Summit.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Data and storytelling are, to quote the great American sage, Forrest Gump, “like peas in a pod”. More specifically, what about mapped data? Creating display maps – in print or as digital images – is easier than ever before, and interactive, web-based mapping is all over the place, so to speak.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is natural in any line of work, but in non-profit storytelling I find that it mostly impacts my process for writing and telling stories. One of the changes I’ve recently made is simplifying my personal definition of storytelling to this: Storytelling is the process of sharing facts, which are told with emotions and details.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Her early career focused on content creation, engagement and digital storytelling work. Search for the topic you’re writing about and see what already exists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

I met Lina Srivastava at SXSW last month and I found her clarifying commentary on the " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social good/systemic change? Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. very insightful.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

. —– Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people’s minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Check it out and see if it’s right for your team.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

7 Things Your Association Strategy Should Include Mapping out a strategy for your membership association isn’t a one-time process. Develop a Public Relations Plan Advocacy is about being the voice of change. Webinar Next-Level Storytelling Tactics for Nonprofits Learn More 5. If it doesn’t, then your organization won’t last.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling. There isn’t a revolutionary change in how to attain and retain the attention of influencers.

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Trend Digital Data Storytelling 69

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. Change the internet?

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2023

What digital disruptor will cause organizations to change how they do business? Now, fundraisers can participate from anywhere in the world, showing their progress on interactive maps, while charities can use these metrics to tell their stories. Storytelling is not new for charities, but the way we tell them can be!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2023

The first blog, The Economy’s Impact on Philanthropy , detailed how economic instability has changed fundraising. Over 55% of those donors answered that the hybrid/virtual event exceeded their expectations because of strong storytelling, engaging content, and an excellent auction or raffle.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Look how elegantly they tell the story of the need for fresh drinking water, and the difference their prorgrams are making.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

That’s where nonprofit storytelling comes into play. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling, in which you’ll explore the following points: The Importance of Storytelling for Nonprofits. 7 Tips for Effective Storytelling for Nonprofits Using Digital Marketing. Let’s get started.

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Storytelling Digital Marketing Guide 98

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story.

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Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Though it has changed in shape during the pandemic, here are seven tips on how to use your digital ecosystem to enhance your fundraising. Visual storytelling, influencer engagement, and marketing automations are just a few effective strategies to increase donor engagement. More on this: Mapping Your Digital Ecosystem.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

In the Games for Change Festival opening keynote speech, Former Vice President Al Gore jokingly admitted that his last video game experience was playing Pong , though he acknowledged the power of games, observing that "Games are the new normal for hundreds of millions of users.” Show me something and I will remember.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Don’t change just for novelty’s sake. Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support. This convinced him to keep running successful campaigns for years without change. Avoid changing messaging just for novelty’s sake. The next game-changing campaign is out there, waiting to be crafted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Check out our map of events to find your closest group. Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. How big is the NetSquared Local community?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Reveal Change. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people's minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Here are four that currently have my vote - please share yours!

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Start by mapping the journey your supporters follow when engaging with your organization. Map their first touchpoint or exposure to your nonprofit (which is often a visit to your website) all the way to the step when they make a donation.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. By the end of this session, you’ll have a good sense of a 3-step approach to better understanding how to map and review your organization’s digital ecosystem. Every year NTEN uses a community-driven process to develop the agenda.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Didn't get enough visual storytelling in our newsletter ? We've also got some more great resources on our blog – on how to tell stories with maps , video , even paid advertising ! By now, you've surely heard his thoughts on death as "life's change agent". Digital storytelling potential a-plenty there. Thanks Steve.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Free domain mapping. It's easy to create, customizable for every video you post, and can be changed on the fly. You might have at one time or another used Google Earth or Google Maps to find a geographic location online but Google Earth is also making a push to help nonprofits use Google Earths and Maps for advocacy and outreach.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

While incorporating insights provided in our webinar with Maria Bryan, we’ll demystify the content planning process, discuss trauma-informed storytelling, unpack resources , and help you create content that converts. The Importance of Storytelling It’s no secret that a great story can generate movers and shakers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out. The Brooklyn Public Library created a story about its Bike the Branches program , featuring maps, photos, and an Albert Einstein quote. The first one (a bunch of rectangles) lets you change the layout if you're dissatisfied.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. What about you - have you go a world-changing road trip in you? Over to You. Hitting the trail with just your cause, your story, and the open road is clearly not for everyone.

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Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps. Google Maps API. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In June, Tides partnered with Rhiza on a data mapping pilot using their Insight software. After doing some research and testing out some of the data mapping tools, we started with just making basic maps of where grants were made and partners are located, from which initial story threads emerged. and "to what ends?"

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . To meet needs, they co-fund professional development in areas like fundraising, strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, racial equity work, marketing and communications, storytelling, and more. . 6) Funding or Engaging in Advocacy .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Digital Storytelling Blender: Web, Video, Games, Events & Live! Mapping and Data Visualizations for Nonprofits. workshifting - Creating Sustainable Organizations and Communities, Using Technology to Change HOW We Work. Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations. Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Philadelphia, PA: Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Some Philly Nonprofits. Vancouver, Canada: Digital Storytelling Workshop. Seattle, WA: Fundraising + Technology: How to Raise Money in a Changing Landscape. Don’t have a Net2Local group near you?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

Tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to empower change and seek justice within the communities you serve. The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context — as you can see in the picture below. No prize transfer will be permitted.

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