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How To: Write Fundraising Auction Item Descriptions

Greater Giving

For example, let’s say that your auction event attracts an audience of individuals drawn to trips and travel. Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.) Communicate expertise (proven, reliable, noted, etc.)

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

Evening meals sometimes went on for hours as we continued our storytelling. These stories simply exist in our minds until we add language and share them with others. When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, Plan International’s website : 2) Post 2-3 times weekly to your LinkedIn Page and respond to your followers. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. For example: 1. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Putting Our Humanity Back at the Center of Engagement

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For example, we can build incredibly meaningful opportunities and programs for employees to engage in volunteering, giving, and broader philanthropy, but if we have not addressed our alignment on values and purpose first, then it will be for naught. 2023 was a year that saw tremendous ESG backlash in the headlines.

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Social Media with M+R: How to Measure the Metrics that Matter

EveryAction

Amy recommends testing different types of posts (a bold graphical image with copy vs a link with preview image + short description, for example) to determine which ones resonate most with your audience and produce the results you're hoping for. Goal: Website traffic Metrics: Clickthrough Rate, Visits. Ready to start posting?

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

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Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Remember, you have 10 seconds!).

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9 Free Ways to Increase Your YouTube Views

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Upworthy headlines are a good source of inspiration.) Here are a few good title examples from YouTube star PewDiePie for Charity Water and the Sierra Club. PETA does a good job of video description storytelling in their video “Circuses in 60 Seconds Flat.”. Pick tags that will be good for SEO.

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