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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Nonprofit storytelling refers to a specific way of communication that organizations use to personalize their mission. And once shared effectively, storytelling will change the game for your organization. But don’t just take it from me – Forbes named storytelling the #1 most important career skill of the future.

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How Make-A-Wish is Telling New Stories with Audience Personas

See3

“We discovered a significant lack of personalization and segmentation in our brand messaging and storytelling, and personas were our response to that,” Smith said. To help Make-A-Wish diversify its storytelling, See3 created nine audience personas to represent current and potential volunteers, donors and wish referrers.

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

Evening meals sometimes went on for hours as we continued our storytelling. When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems. But storytelling still plays a prominent role in all requests that I write.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

RSVP now for TechSoup's fourth annual Digital Storytelling Screening and Awards Party on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

I believe that our children’s generation is key to creating lasting change in equality, justice, climate change, and human rights. It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference.

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Is a crisis management plan enough?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crises offer an opportunity for nonprofit professionals to step into leadership roles and requires those already in leadership to manage effectively to ensure that the board and the executive leadership teams are engaged. According to Crisis Planning in the Nonprofit Sector: Should We Plan for Something Bad If It May Not Occur?

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Designing for Good #3 – Best of 2016 Nonprofit Storytelling

Connection Cafe

For this Designing for Good episode, we’re showcasing the best examples of nonprofit storytelling of 2016. Timely, but why is nonprofit storytelling such a hot topic these days ? And that’s why nonprofit storytelling matters. 1 Save the Children: “Most Shocking Second a Day” (2 min).