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Storytelling for Grant Writers: 10 Tactical & Stylistic Tips

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Let’s take a look at why storytelling matters for nonprofit grant writing and actionable ways you can start telling more compelling stories in your proposals. Why Does Storytelling Matter for Grant Writers? Storytelling matters in grant writing for two key reasons: Stories help you stand out. Stories make things real.

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

—– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling. I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

Forum One

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Another great topic is the history of your organization. Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Her early career focused on content creation, engagement and digital storytelling work. That’s totally natural.

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The Story Tellers Project Helps Nonprofits Document their History and Successes

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The Story Tellers Project will setup a host location and then bring in a truckload of equipment to setup small stations for storytelling (written, audio, and video). The nonprofit also receives a collection of life stories as part of the larger oral history endeavors. Did I mention that the Story Tellers Project is grant funded?

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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Hairston, vice president of institutional advancement and development at Miles College, said, “[This report] will be one of those seminal documents that will allow us to get in rooms we might have been excluded from.” Panelist Dr. Steven E.