Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. storytellers?in?the?world. hours of community service. trustworthy?on

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The ads, which tell the stories of people across the country, show the entire scope of the organization’s work: blood collection and supply; support to America’s military families; help to vulnerable communities around the world; disaster relief; and health and safety training and education. We ended up with a list of about 300 storytellers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Floodlight, an interesting data storytelling tool for communities is also featured. Even as analysts caution against over reliance on big data, humanitarians and crisis-affected communities are increasingly exploiting these new technologies to gather near real-time information to prepare for, prevent and handle disasters.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

For SXSWCares , a crowdfunding campaign for disaster relief, we worked with the press to get featured in CNN, NYTimes, Forbes, AdAge, and more. Include a video. This allows for compelling storytelling. 80% of the top grossing crowdfunding campaigns on CauseVox used a video. They also have a hard time approaching press.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Innovators of the Social Good Startup Challenge: Meet the winners of the first “Social Good Startup Challenge” who help you extend your Blackbaud fundraising and marketing software in new ways to maximize giving, power video storytelling, and much more. Roz Lemieux – Blackbaud (and many more!). Ashley Thompson – Blackbaud.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Digital Storytelling Blender: Web, Video, Games, Events & Live! Disaster Planning: What Organizations Need to Know to Protect Their Tech. We hope you will find a session, or more, that suits your organization, and thank you for your vote. See you in San Francisco! Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Transmedia storytelling is shining through projects like Breakthrough: America 2049 , an ARG in Facebook that allows for various types of gameplay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Through Stifter-helfen.de, the organization received donations from Microsoft, SurveyMonkey, as well as 18 Flip Video Mino-HD cameras. The employees then create presentations with the videos. This enables streetfootballworld to call attention to its work through digital storytelling. Making More Time to Educate Youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre teamed up with Parsons The New School of Design’s PETLab to develop Games for a New Climate , a series of games about disaster preparedness in the face of flooding, drought, and other climate change issues. Games for a New Climate. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We’ve already seen significant fluctuations in US giving behavior over 2017, with the change in presidential administrations , natural disasters and several moments in time in between – all which would otherwise point towards a more precarious situation for Giving Tuesday and end-of-year fundraising efforts.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Communicating your nonprofit’s message through video on Facebook will maximize your reach more than any other form of content and help you reach the people that are passionate about your cause. We now live in a video-first world, in large part due to Mark Zuckerberg. Storytelling in a sound-off world. Their findings?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

When will you have the time to go back through hours of video to find and edit the interesting or meaningful parts. It’s the news of Beyonce’s pregnancy announced during the MTV Video Awards that takes the honor of #1. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. But what’s the point? Adding Our Life to Data.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

As more museums move towards narrative presentation of content, the bank of useful design tools grows to include those used by other storytellers. Humor provides comfort, whether in the face of death or potential disaster. One of the strangest ways I see this employed is in the ride safety videos at theme parks.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns can support a wide array of missions and causes, from disaster relief and healthcare initiatives to education and environmental projects. Nonprofits often provide resources such as pre-written copy, images, and videos to help fundraisers effectively spread the word and encourage donations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2021

If your drive is happening after any natural disasters, during the winter, or when your community is under intense stress, needs might be higher and your goals should reflect those circumstances. Storytelling is one of the best ways to communicate that impact to your supporters. Videos are also a highly effective storytelling tool.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Storytelling is an essential component of fundraising , and especially so when it comes to mobile fundraising. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling? When it comes to storytelling with mobile fundraising, make sure to put your donors at the center of the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With the wildlife we're compiling, We could keep the scientists smiling, And lose the grave and stern decorum that was our storytelling before, 'Though tweets are short and fitted,' I said, we'll increase the total submitted. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Video Stories. Videos from leadership and recipients. Videos should be short(personally I won’t watch anything longer than 3-4 minutes) and reports should be brief. Storytelling tip I attended a terrific session at the Bridge Conference around creating more authentic content with citizen storytellers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

With more than 250 million blogs in existence and countless online news outlets worldwide, your new media manager must excel at writing and have the ability to expand their storytelling, marketing, and fundraising content beyond traditional blog writing. Record a video of your office or facilities. This is a missed opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. Emotions have always had an appropriate place in storytelling for fundraising, we give because we are empathetic beings. Facebook manipulates what we see on the site to keep us there longer.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“And this chair is just right,” says a Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) Sister in a Giving Tuesday Campaign video. We have gone with the humorous video as a way to differentiate our self from other charities, but what sets you aside? The campaign raised $52,000 shattering our goal of $15,000—for new chairs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. When everyone in an organization is led by the same story, the organization's content output reflects that story and a mythic central storyteller.

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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. What better way for a nonprofit to show their tangible impact than through strategically placed photos/videos on Instagram? .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2017

Organizations steeped in disaster-response fundraising can shed light on how to plan around “emergency catalysts” but through a sustained strategy –which, is ultimately a balance that all organizations should work towards. is a good first step towards a more operationally nimble process. We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines.

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