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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home). Photos and videos are crucial to the success of your story. Look at her eyes.

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend? Stimpy, Smurfette, Foghorn Leghorn, Betty Boop – they’re all there!

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I'll Text for Food

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Joi No, I'm not talking about texting in your take out order. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. In response, Share Our Strength is asking people to send a text donation and hold food drives to help feed those in need.

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A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco. Photo credit: Alanna Hale. Our organization grew at a rapid pace, providing over 50,000 meals weekly. About the Authors.

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. s World Food Programme.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

The timeline or newsfeed, in its quest to present ever growing amounts of information to us, becomes as fleeting as the stock ticker feed in Times Square, and belittles the personal importance of each post, by rendering it in the same small block, with the same small profile icon, in the same small font as everyone else. Photos matter.