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Compassion Services International on Growing Your Nonprofit Email List, Donation Thank You’s, and Powerful Storytelling

CauseVox

Cylinda Nickel is the Executive Director at Compassion Services International. Using The Power Of Storytelling To Sell The Need. A great fundraiser is a great storyteller. 150 provides ten days of meals for the homeless), you’re likely to drive more donations. Pro Tip: Add donation tier descriptions if possible.

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How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits must never forget that they are called to be active participants in the lives of people, learning stories, and, when appropriate, storytelling for further impact. This makes storytelling a necessity and a digital discipline. Professionally, Josh is the director of community impact for Madera Residential in Lubbock, Texas.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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How To Increase Board Fundraising Without Having To Ask for Money

Bloomerang

They simply need to be good storytellers. Storytelling opens doors and creates interest and can be coupled with an invitation to “take action” on the organization’s website which hopefully helps them acquire email addresses. Later, your organization can encourage the donor to run a birthday fundraiser.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. For example: 1. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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3 Key Elements of a Lapsed Donor Letter

Neon CRM

Use storytelling elements to make this section of your lapsed donor letter as effective as possible. Over 3,000 people in Combe County are currently facing poverty and homelessness—at least 1,000 of them are children. Many thanks, Carl Davies Executive Director, Combes Cares Use Neon CRM to Reach Lapsed Donors (and Everyone Else!)

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries.