Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Congratulations to all of these award winners, and collective gratitude to all the participants in this year’s digital storytelling challenge.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” Emily and Joe recommend to begin with planning before you ever look at your data.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Either way, this site provides a go-to place for prospects to learn about the campaign, its goals, and the potential impact of a gift. Here is an example of how a faith-based organization leveraged storytelling in a fundraising appeal.]. Leverage these amazing stories on your peer-to-peer campaign website to further inspire gifts.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

865,120 raised (173% of goal) – via 1,300 gifts, from 22 states, 108 nonprofit organizations participating, and 15 sponsors contributing $213,000. For instance, they often have data to demonstrate the work they are doing: children educated, animals saved, meals served, etc. For example, what did the children learn?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. She is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert helping nonprofit organizations raise nearly $300 million dollars from individual donors.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Potential corporate or major donor gift sponsors/matches. Including an impact goal alongside your fundraising goal ties dollars to impact – and 68% of donors agree that knowing how their donation makes an impact is important to their gift. Use #GivingTuesday To Drive Gift Committments With Recurring Donations Or Pledge Now, Pay Later.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so it’s not uncommon that as you’re working through your gift tables and your commitments that your leadership or your donors will want to rush out and, you know, launch the social media campaign or start a new grassroots initiatives. Not being able to build out your gift tables. Momentum is really important.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Storytelling through Design Now, let’s dive into the heart of your campaign – storytelling. Engaging Success Stories: Visual storytelling elements like images or videos of children reading, accompanied by their success stories, are placed where they’re easy to find. Also, size matters.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Nicholas Kristof brought out a few tears (at least from me) in his keynote session that covered everything from the value of storytelling, the struggle of partisan politics, Random Controlled Trials (RCT’s), the role of media for causes, demining rats, deworming children and teenage pregnancy rates in the Us compared to Europe.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Up your storytelling game. Find more major gifts. Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. Because giving is often a sacrifice for your donors, they want to make sure you got their gift. Picture a potential donor.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. They have children, they’re doing all of this. That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

The argument for stories In 2003, John Sadowsky and Loick Roche, two professors at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, reviewed the major academic literature on storytelling and wrote a paper called, "The power of stories: a discussion of why stories are powerful". You might guess that version 2 would raise more money.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Your storytelling and the look of your website are important, but your website isn't doing its job unless people know how to give you money. It combines the impact of pictures with the power of words, a perfect match for making your story meaningful to viewers. For an effective website, make sure you include the following.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Will you be be asking any corporations or other partners to either fundraise with you, promote your campaign, make a matching gift, or sponsor your fundraiser ? Nonprofit storytelling fuels fundraising. Will you be incorporating any prizes, giveaways, or incentives for your donors or fundraisers? Easily Set Up Your Campaign Site.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And I think this day I took this picture was the day that I really started to ask this question. a small nonprofit who serves children with disability, raising $91,000 on a regional giving day. You need to get better at storytelling, like strengthen those muscles and practice it and do it over and over again.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children." I raised a lot of money. I thought, "Great.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. When done correctly, a microsite can be one of the most powerful storytelling tools available to fundraisers. AbolishChildTrafficking.org.

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