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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

Storytelling has become a hot topic in non-profit fundraising. There’s a reason for this change: storytelling is extremely important to good fundraising. Two Types of Non-Profit Storytelling. In my experience, when we talk about “storytelling” in non-profit fundraising, we’re talking about one of two separate things.

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9 Emails Every Nonprofit Needs To Send

Pamela Grow

Storytelling Email As in all donor comms — including your emails — let storytelling guide you. What you can learn about solid, empathetic storytelling from an email shows how. For more, check out master storyteller Vanessa Chase Lockshin’s 30 minute training. A clean list yields better supporter interactions.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Make eye contact with your audience. Create content that resembles the feeling of someone making eye contact with you in a crowded room. Show real humans talking to the camera through videos and storytelling. Instead, share your mission through stories and behind-the-scenes looks at your work. Say their name. Don’t fake it.

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Free Digital Storytelling Online Event

Robert Weiner

My friends at TechSoup asked me to pass along info about their upcoming digital storytelling event. What do we mean by Digital Storytelling? According to Wikipedia, "Digital Storytelling refers to using digital tools so that ordinary people can tell their own real-life stories." More info: The event webpage is [link].

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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

Contacting elected officials and other decision-makers Your supporters hold many identities: they’re legislative constituents from the federal level down to the municipal level; they’re consumers and customers; they’re community members. If possible, include a photo of the stakeholder!

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How to Mobilize a Movement: 6 Tech Strategies for Supporter Advocacy

The Modern Nonprofit

The Power of Personal Connection: Contacting Elected Officials Imagine equipping every supporter with a magic wand, one they could wave to instantly share their voice with decision-makers. The Art of Storytelling: Sharing Supporters’ Stories There’s something profoundly human about sharing stories.

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How to Support People When Sharing Their Individual Stories

The Storytelling Non-profit

In our roles as non-profit storytellers, we often need others to tell us their stories so that we have material to work with. Why Supporting People Sharing Individual Stories is Necessary Do we always have the best perspective to support people through their storytelling process? I tell other people’s stories for a living.

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