The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. Mar 11 - 13.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Meanwhile, your other donor, John, is passionate about wildlife conservation and often volunteers his time to help with habitat restoration projects. Simple design choices, like great images, easy-to-read copy, and scannable formatting can all make it easier for donors to read your appeal and make the decision to give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content. 11 Nonprofit Blogs Designed for the Social Web. A first-person voice is best.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Dr. Seuss Helps You Rock Digital Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. “The key is working with a good designer.” The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. ” Yes!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2016

Design and Messaging: Images and Content Need to Align. Conservation International [link] is a great example of how great quality images are paired with concise messaging effectively. Storytelling: persuade with imagery. For those users, you need to focus on making a first good impression, establishing trust and credibility.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. South Carolina’s Nonprofit Summit is the state’s largest and most comprehensive conference designed specifically by and for leaders in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit Management / @usdsoles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s mission statement is “To inspire conservation of the oceans.” This often happens due to the design of the website and a lack of understanding of your audiences’ goals. Learn more about visual storytelling from Ira on the sgENGAGE Podcast. Include clear, compelling calls-to-action.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Las Vegas, Nevada: Online Courses (Storytelling). Vancouver, British Columbia: Design for Nondesigners. Austin, Texas: Miradi: A Flexible Approach to Program Planning for Conservation and Beyond. Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. Tuesday, February 7, 2017.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Many of the projects—like a huge, specially designed fence to separate birds from lizards until the populations of each stabilize—were both impressive in scale and were communicated well as short-term steps on a long path to a thriving natural habitat.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Pinterest users looking for design inspiration often search for things by color, plus it's a fun way to surprise people with the visual variety of your furry and flippered residents.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a. Third, if your nonprofit regularly shares stories on Instagram, make a strong first impression by creating custom Highlight covers using a graphic design tool or a mobile app. Kudos to Conservation International !

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Fashion Show Hold a fashion show that gives local designers and businesses a change to display their latest styles while creating a theme that ties into your cause. You can also let your designers set up booths to sell the fashions on display and turn the event into a mini-arts fair.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Ramya from YouTube shared all the perks about the YouTube Nonprofit Program and if you've ever read my posts here before (see Enhancing your Nonprofit's Online Presence with Online Video and Nonprofit Rockstars and YouTube Nonprofit Manager share why video is so powerful for storytelling for starters) you know I am a huge fan of this program.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

The practice has become a major part of brand design and only continues to grow in popularity. As a designer and illustrator, I’m constantly weighing the pros and cons of using photos or illustrations. For the Yosemite Conservancy , Lori Chinn created a set of illustrations inspired by the look and feel of vintage park maps. .

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

1) Visual Storytelling. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Try fitting it into the Pixar Storytelling Framework.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Doctors Without Borders blog has plenty of examples of this type of captivating storytelling, including a gripping story about people fleeing violence in Sudan. The CARE blog also has many examples of multimedia storytelling. You can use free graphic design tools like Canva to generate infographics to supplement your blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Until one day….

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. Designing marketing collateral for multiple channels will take a little investment of time and money on the part of your nonprofit. Also of note: Google’s “ABCD Framework.”

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

She will participate in causes related to animals and environmental conservation but tends to steer clear on matters of policy or legislation. David has previously donated between $250 and $350, while Anna tends to contribute conservatively, typically ranging from $25 to $50. Platform Features Limitations User base: 2.93

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

How often should educators, designers, and execs push back from their desks, throw on a nametag, and walk the floor? The screams of children, while invigorating, don't inspire better fundraising nor conservation. It makes us more compelling storytellers and fundraisers about the guest experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Aradium :: facebook.com/aradium. Easelly :: easel.ly. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Flavors is a tool that allows nonprofits to easily create simple, well-designed websites for as little as $20 per year. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Flavors is a tool that allows nonprofits to easily create simple, well-designed websites for as little as $20 per year. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2019

As most fundraisers know, the key to getting people to care about a cause is through storytelling that conveys not only the issues, but demonstrates the real-world impact an organization is making to solve problems. are designed well and place vets front and center. . Follow: @charitywaterraph. RAINFOREST ALLIANCE. Rainforest Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. It’s also hard to change the. better way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

They key is designing the opportunity for connection, plus self-organizing. The blogs were an opportunity to engage people in conversations about the daily challenge of conservation work in Africa These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Free Range Studios is an advertising and marketing firm that specializes in progressive non-profit and socially responsible businesses, but we are best known for our online storytelling. We do a lot of print design; we started in website design; what we do that people see the most is online storytelling.

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