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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

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But if you want to stand out in a crowded applicant field, it’s essential to communicate your impact clearly and compellingly. For example, a food bank exists to address hunger in a community. Health or poverty issues directly related to hunger could be useful, but including tangential issues will be counterproductive.

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

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Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Why You Need a Good Story Strong, effective storytelling for nonprofits can accomplish lots of good things: Connects your audience to those you serve.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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As new thinking continues to emerge and donor positioning shifts, ethical storytelling is evolving, and a new messaging strategy, called strength-based messaging , has emerged. Ensuring you have access to the photos and stories you need to paint the full picture. Helping those community members in need helps the community as a whole.

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Visual Storytelling for the Modern Nonprofit

Connection Cafe

Modern technology provides us all with new opportunities for storytelling, including new ways to approach the ever-important visual element. That is the topic of the most recent episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast: Visual Storytelling: A Picture is Worth 60,000 Words. Wrap our heads around the idea of visual storytelling.

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5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games

Connection Cafe

Fans’ obsession with the Hunger Games saga isn’t by chance. As a Hunger Games fanatic (if Disney creates a Panem-based theme park, I’ll be first in line to visit the Capitol), I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits can learn from the phenomenon and generate this type of dedicated following. Hunger Games Lesson 3: Precision Matters.

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Inspire: create, collect, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Recognizing the inherent strengths of incorporating storytelling strategy into online communications, Roger Burks , Perla Ni and I lead a session on " Better Online Storytelling.".

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Inspire: collect, create, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Recognizing the inherent strengths of incorporating storytelling strategy into online communications, Roger Burks , Perla Ni and I lead a session on " Better Online Storytelling.".

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