The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

Fundraising Stories with “Low” Stakes Organizations that provide human service work or international development typically have very clear, recognizable conflict that seems high stakes. This is where your storytelling work boils down to effective messaging. A big part of storytelling is finding your angle for telling the story.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Developing a case for support is vital for every nonprofit that wants to create fundraising appeals that resonate with donors and bring results. Join us and learn the four key elements of community storytelling: Inclusion, Attention, Reputation & Validation, and Action. Key Takeaways: What is a case for support?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2014

While the ROI of storytelling is a difficult one to measure , what’s important to understand is that it does work. Essentially, storytelling is something that not only helps nonprofits engage with their communities, but it also harbors the potential to help nonprofits fundraise, too. The formula.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Implement and Test : Develop and implement your ChatGPT-powered initiatives. The following prompt and instructions can help you develop it. The following prompt and instructions can help you develop it. The following prompt and instructions can help you develop it. Output as a table.” Output as a table.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In part three of this series on how to become a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about the practical skills you need to tell an effective story. In part one of this series, I talked about figuring out your goals and objectives, developing your brand and tone, and choosing your audience. Read parts one and two.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. This storytelling framework asks you to answer three basic questions: Story of Self: Why have you been called to serve?

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 18, 2021

Digital Communications Specialist and founder of Digital Charity Lab, Jean O’Brien , teamed up with Abortion Support Network to develop an interactive “choose your own adventure” story. It’s a storytelling experience that fosters empathy in an impactful, lasting way. An unforgettable way. face when seeking an abortion.

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CauseVox

MARCH 23, 2022

Krista Mortensen, Development Manager at Invest in Kids, a Denver based nonprofit with the mission for supporting the well-being of kids through a wide spectrum of initiatives and programs. Krista Mortensen, Development Manager @ Invest in Kids. About your Speakers. Rob Wu, CEO + Co-Founder @ CauseVox.

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Kindful

MAY 26, 2021

of storytelling will help you drastically increase your organization’s revenue and impact. As entrepreneurial expert Gary Vaynerchuk puts it, “Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.” Additionally, Forbes names storytelling “the #1 most important career skill for the future.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2021

How can nonprofits use digital storytelling to create effective campaigns? TechSoup's first digital storytelling mini-conference — we were joined by industry leaders who showed us how to build a strategy, use the right tools, and execute successful digital storytelling campaigns. What strategy is right for your nonprofit?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Be Aggressive About Learning If proactive skill-building isn’t part of your culture, it is time to consider a more aggressive approach to learning, development, and employee retention. Employees who have access to professional development opportunities are 15% more engaged. Digital markets don’t allow room to languish.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As a follow-up to Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries , below are five social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs in developing countries. Donors and supporters are increasing overwhelmed by text-heavy storytelling – especially on mobile devices.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

A great way to narrow in on your organization’s audience is to develop audience personas. How Make-A-Wish is Using Audience Personas Recently, See3 partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation of America to help the organization better understand its audiences and develop an organization-wide content strategy.

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Charity Village

APRIL 5, 2023

Common interview methods don’t highlight the right person for the job; they highlight the best and most enthusiastic storyteller, and storytelling isn’t always the job employers are looking to fill. This article was previously published by CareerWise and is reprinted with permission.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 31, 2022

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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Here are some specific takeaways from the episode: Engagement: A benefit of being a hundred-year-old organization is having the time to develop connections that continue to spur your organization onward. Storytelling: Don’t fall back on brand reliance. The cultural pulse changes over time and so too must your storytelling strategy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2016

In November 2015, the United Nations unanimously adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the social, economic, and environmental spectrum, plus critical pieces relating to civil society. But how will the United Nations Foundation (the.( read more )

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 23, 2020

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is how the traditional development model puts up a lot of barriers to engagement. When I talk about the traditional development model, I’m talking about annual giving, major giving and planned giving. The traditional development model uses what’s called a ladder of engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

That’s where we, as nonprofit storytellers, need to begin. Perhaps the most important component of a good story is development. Just because a potential donor is already engaged with an organization dedicated to youth development doesn’t mean that same donor won’t give to your youth development nonprofit.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Liz Albert brings over 15 years of experience as a development director to her strategic fundraising consultancy, supporting nonprofits with development planning, writing, storytelling, capital campaigns, board development, and more. Make it heartfelt and authentic, as all the best Valentine’s Day messages are.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

Small to mid-sized nonprofits: rather than hiring your fifth development director in three years, consider outsourcing your creative and/or grants, freeing up your fundraiser’s time for growing relationships. That’s because human beings are hardwired for nonprofit storytelling. We are, as a species, addicted to story.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 14, 2016

An ideal path to enhancing a site’s storytelling capabilities, animation makes the user’s experience infinitely more entertaining while the interactive element encourages longer and repeated visits. The post By Design: The Next Big Trends in Website Development appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this podcast, Amy Gibson, the Director of Resource Development shares the secrets for how she did it, including how she shows appreciation to her donors, and uses software to streamline processes and address challenges along the way. Listen to this episode.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2023

One way to encourage people to support your organization is through great nonprofit storytelling. By using narrative and storytelling techniques, you’ll be able to communicate your nonprofit’s mission and impact while building stronger emotional connections with your audience. Where Should You Use Nonprofit Storytelling?

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These traditional assumptions result in extensive staff involvement across development and communications departments; a long production timeline (up to nine months!); The last hill: storytelling There was one final thing dragging out the annual report timeline: content development. and significant print and mailing expenses.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s part graphic design, part design-thinking, part storytelling, part strategic thinking and part love note to you amazing humans who work so hard for your causes, your donors, your mission, and your desire to contribute and make positive change in our world.” Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories. Develop a strategy for data storytelling. Develop a strategy for data storytelling.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Perhaps it is a combination of a few different storytelling elements. Our Storymakers 2014 challenge kicks off August 26, so to get you inspired, I've compiled some great examples of digital storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns. Storymakers2014 fundraising crowdfunding digital storytelling causevox' Cool photos?

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CauseVox

APRIL 26, 2022

Aishwariya Chandrasekar, Development Manager at VisArts, joined CauseVox’s CEO, Rob Wu for a great interview covering all things from VisArts almost $100,000 annual campaign to embedded donations form perks. “Our development team tries to have the community and fundraisers tell their stories. About your Speakers.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

Story arcs play an important role in non-profit narrative development. As a non-profit professional, it’s essential to come out of the weeds of individual storytelling so that you can be strategic with what you tell your audience over time. Get more storytelling advice for fundraising in this on-demand training.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is natural in any line of work, but in non-profit storytelling I find that it mostly impacts my process for writing and telling stories. One of the changes I’ve recently made is simplifying my personal definition of storytelling to this: Storytelling is the process of sharing facts, which are told with emotions and details.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Aaron Bramley Lights.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sessions about fundraising and event planning are plentiful, but so are sessions around bookkeeping, IT management, staff development, and more. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference AFP ICON and NTC are fun and educational, but they’re really big conferences! Learn more about the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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Charity Village

MARCH 17, 2023

The stress had been building from the pressure I was putting on myself to complete my draft while also being on the road this past month facilitating our storytelling workshops across […] The post Resisting a Rest: How Urgency Culture Polices our Work appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Congratulations to all of these award winners, and collective gratitude to all the participants in this year’s digital storytelling challenge.

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Care2

APRIL 4, 2011

It’s global connective tissue", said Stacey Monk, co-founder of Epic Change , who was part of the panel Up Close and Personal: How Storytelling Builds Movements at NTC along with Mark Horvath of Invisible People , Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love, Little Hearts , and moderated by Avi Kaplan of Rad Campaign. Tell a real story. No red tape.

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