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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Gen Z doesn’t see such trips as service because “it’s hard to create reciprocity when you go into another environment and you…drop in for a week and then drop out,” said Dugan. In an unpredictable environment, youth need to gain a sense of control, to know that they are making a difference in the world.

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Next Level Donor Relations: Make The Experience “Unexpectedly Pleasurable”

Bloomerang

Personalized video messages Record short, heartfelt, and fun video messages from your team members expressing gratitude to donors for the impact their gifts have made. This can be done in a format combination of video, photography, and memorabilia. This may require a chaperone. Always go above and beyond.

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Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards

Forum One

Design choices also include delightful interactive features, such as load animations and hover effects, and striking photography to highlight the Zoo’s impact. The new website allows educators to search and explore multimedia resources across topics and formats and assemble them into customized and shareable collections and lesson plans.

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Get the Equipment You Need to Shoot a Professional-Looking Video

Tech Soup

A compelling story makes a video stick with its audience, but if it looks poorly made, nobody's going to watch it. Most of the modern smartphones' cameras can shoot high-resolution video. To up your video quality, you might try downloading a video-capturing app, such as MoviePro ($5) or FiLMiC Pro ($10).

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4 Times Churches Should Use Waivers

sgEngage

Nowadays, churches often have their own volunteer or hired photography team to record and capture imagery at events or services. It’s important to obtain a photo release from the congregants you’ve captured on camera before using their image in any of these formats: Church videos. Image Release. Website imagery. Social media.

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6 Tips to Improve Your Next Fundraising Campaign Using Digital Storytelling

Tech Soup

In the digital environment of email, social media, and mobile, we can use storytelling in innovative ways to inspire supporters and donors — and raise more money. Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. Avoid using stock photography, since this turns off donors.

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Nonprofits: Make Your Voice Heard

Care2

The term multimedia brings to mind flashy video presentations. However, going lo-fi with your media can actually suit your needs more directly than video, text or still photography. But later when auditing the video clip, the audio was severely blurred by the strong winds. Make Audio a Vital Medium for Your Non-Profit.

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