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Storytelling for Success: A Look at Three Crowdfunding Campaigns

Tech Soup

The students are from some of the poorest areas of Minneapolis and due to personal trauma or stress, have difficulty focusing or connecting in an academic environment. But Paws for Learning's fundraising campaign on Razoo has not only the pictures to melt your heart, but the stats and stories to make you break out your wallet.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities.

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Game Friday: Bigger is Better

Museum 2.0

Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). Paul/Minneapolis called in or voted online to determine the movement of large game pieces (see above) each evening throughout the city.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. I live in Minneapolis. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person. Are you doing okay? Lori: I’m doing okay. I don’t have a cold.

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Digital Storytelling at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013

Tech Soup

Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota created an interactive infographic to show donors the impact of their giving. So how do you take the dry logic of statistics and translate them into an emotional hook?