The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. It’s participatory. Storytelling is an invaluable tool for non-profits. Maybe you think of them is interchangeable terms and you wouldn’t be alone in that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. A development director at a Food Bank who also did tours at the facility kept a running log of questions and comments that visitors made, including the fact that they were interested in the food donations and surprised that they food bank received donations of fresh fruit.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. Yet understanding design wants and needs doesn’t end with the organization that hires us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. You had the option of emailing the photo to yourself and it came with a description as well as a mention of what to purchase in the gift shop or where to donate. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian. At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

If you tweeted with the hashtag #IGiveBecause – you received a $20 gift card to donate to the charity of your choice on their site. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give. I gave the gift of girls education.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In all of our studies, we see millennials participate in activism and give donations to an average of 3-5 organizations representing diverse issues each year. This action generates more discussion on the social issue and can lead to deeper actions such as peer fundraising or participatory behavior in events. So what have we found?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The homepage has three prominent options: sponsor a water project (which involves making donations of $6,000 - $20,000) start a fundraising campaign learn about the water crisis It''s no accident that only one of these three is a "learn" box. The first two are opportunities to immediately get involved, either by donating money or raising it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

SAP Nonprofit Forum : Share your technology requirements to influence SAP technology donations and accelerate impact. New LightCMS and TribeHR NetSuite donations at TechSoup: Find out how to get a discounted content management system, online store, HRIS, recruiting or performance management software. 11:30am --12:30pm. 10 -- 11am.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

And if 1/100 th or 1/1000 th of those people who like it go donate just imagine the impact. Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. This blog talks about participatory fundraising ideas and the effect of healthy competition. Make it fun!

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

From the belief statement (also called the opening or donor statement) and opening sentence or two to pull quotes, calls to action, and the ever-important P.S. line, you have a limited amount of space (and time) in which to capture potential donors’ attention, communicate your story, and, of course, persuade them to donate. Are you in?”)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. I hope you will do the same and donate too. I donated $75 so I could get the t-shirt and photograph myself in it - and added it to all my social networking profiles. Here's what it looks like on Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” A campaign that raised awareness and donations for ALS to epic proportions. ” to “Can I donate if I don’t dump water on my head.” This “Dr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Half the Sky Movement: The Game , a Facebook adventure game that raised awareness and donations for girls and women’s causes worldwide, has transformed 1.3 Created by ESI Design, the 100-player Senate Immersion Module game was made for the Edward M.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Office 365 — how nonprofits can take leverage Microsoft's donated suite of tools to modernize their organizations and embrace the cloud. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. They raised $1,500 in two weeks from $10, $20, and $50 donations. (I I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Tweet conversations about you.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Be sure and check out how groups like NARAL and the Sierra Club have used social networking to encourage donations and strengthen community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. In fact, we have almost no individual donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Is there a site where you can get vetted information about nonprofits you might be considering making a donation? I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. We also discussed personal fundraising and another excellent question. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

donation to the universe, is a gift. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Ideas participatory museum. This simple act, a $2.50

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

We get materials donated from our members, we put up our own flyers around town, and we have a great working relationship with the city dump. We've been toying with a participatory future-casting program and or a storytelling series to start moving in this direction. were shamelessly resourceful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. And, congrats to the winner , CogDogBlog and $50 will be donated to his favorite cause. Harry's advice: Put a dog on the card!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Be sure and check out how groups like NARAL and the Sierra Club have used social networking to encourage donations and strengthen community.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The event succeeded in donating thousands of images to Wikipedia, but it was plagued by challenges that frustrated museum staff, Wikimedians, and photographers. Eventually, all of the work was completed and 6,195 photographs were donated to Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. Foundations make charitable grants and donations to non-profit organizations. readers, who I see as potential co-conspirators). Here's a brief primer on PRIs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We look for people to partner with them, whether it be members of the community to donate small amounts of money, or news organizations to provide editorial to then push the story into completion. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'll donate talent."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A friendly sheet metal company in Santa Cruz provided scrap metal for our Experience Metal festival last summer; we thanked them by donating back the giant robot visitors partly made from the scrap. Share your resources and connections that can help make their activity/collaboration stronger. Buy, gather, and prep all the materials you can.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

I'm less likely to become a member or donate if that experience isn't naturally and obviously part of the relationship I'm building with the institution on the content side. This is most extreme in institutions that have a delightful, idiosyncratic style to their content communication and a more formal approach to development communication.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” And, when individual people want to make a difference, many think not just of donating their time or their money, but their networks. It’s why, depending on the type of event, a P2P fundraiser might only send 4 to 7 emails to get a donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Even then, those who donated were definitely contacts with whom I had more in-depth conversations. That was the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

• women donate twice as many to charities as men do? In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Winning with Women: Why Targeting Women is Vital in Fundraising *. • women make 80% of all household purchasing decisions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Their efforts yielded a donation conversion increase of 49% and increasing sign-up conversions by 161%. Code for America helps governments become more connected, participatory, and more Lean through new opportunities for public service. They ran over 500 A/B tests over 20 months, with the goal of focusing on what works.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Now, this might seem absurd and on some level it is, but what they succeeded in doing here was creating an experience that was so richly participatory that actually the experience of imagining the game was more important than the game itself. There’s a whole world that’s been created.

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