Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

Although laparoscopic surgical methods have improved, and the stigma of discussing menstruation continues to be reduced, many who seek answers for life-disrupting period pain are often told to focus on diet, exercise, and stress management. . But how do you exercise when you’re doubled over in pain in bed?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Storytelling is a powerful tool. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. It helps them relax. It didn’t take long).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

On Monday, April 16, TechSoup took its Digital Storytelling global with a full-day tweet chat spanning 10 time zones. Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. Twitter tweet chat tsdigs digital storytelling'

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s part graphic design, part design-thinking, part storytelling, part strategic thinking and part love note to you amazing humans who work so hard for your causes, your donors, your mission, and your desire to contribute and make positive change in our world.” Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why not try a little writing exercise right now? Here’s a snippet of a fuller exercise from my 7 Clairification Keys To Unlock Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Potential. Finally, schedule a time (while you’re still in the values frame of mind) to conduct a similar group exercise (write on a whiteboard or easel).

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

But sometimes it can be a good exercise to write a story through the filter of a certain value. The post 5 Types of Stories for Non-Profit Fundraising appeared first on The Storytelling Non-Profit. The Values Story. Values are what drive people to give to certain causes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 16, 2023

At least 20 minutes of the agenda should be dedicated to education and training, such as role-playing exercises, making calls to donors, or even guest facilitators. Storytelling is a great way to reinforce an emotional connection with your mission. One way to do this is to incorporate training into board meetings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Before the struggles of 2020 become a distant memory, nonprofit leaders need to model self-reflection and lead their teams through the exercise of identifying what was done well and what could have been done differently.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this article I’m going to show you my approach to narrative and storytelling in email that has helped me raise just shy of $1m in a year for one of my clients. I find this portion of fundraising emails to be a real exercise in concise yet powerful copy writing. The First 120 to 150 Words of a Fundraising Email.

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2021

If you have not done an exercise like this before or in the last year for your organization stop right now. Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet. Do not pass go. Grab a pen and let’s work through it together.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They make the day fun.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling. SEIU and Forum One working through design-thinking exercises to best approach their digitization strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Storytelling is a powerful tool. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. It helps them relax.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Storytelling is a powerful tool. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. It helps them relax.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 8, 2020

The point of this exercise to see how many ways you can come at achieving your goal. Interested in storytelling planning resources? My book has worksheets and step-by-step guidance to help you create a custom 12-month storytelling plan. This is a time for pie-in-the-sky thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Storytelling is a powerful tool. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. It helps them relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Especially when it’s combined with deep financial insights from accounting platforms like Quickbooks, a nonprofit’s budgeting process can become an exercise in creativity and experimentation that is centered on what you value most. Through a transformational shift in the people you are engaging with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. It was followed by this: 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. An experiment is the DS106 (an online course on Digital Storytelling) that is a “ headless course ,’ or one without a teacher, although the curriculum/syllabus was created by an instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. They suggested looking for a person who has the curiosity to ask the right questions, learns quickly and is good with storytelling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. Storytelling is a powerful tool. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. It helps them relax. It didn’t take long).

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JULY 25, 2020

In the survey responses many of you shared you’re trying to figure out angles for messaging, content, storytelling and fundraising asks. Pulling answers out of the sky or based on assumptions will make this exercise less valuable. The post 4 Questions to Make Strategic Decisions appeared first on The Storytelling Non-Profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a critical exercise for strategy right now because it will give you some amount of objectivity because let’s face it, even in the best of times we’re often in an emotional pigeon hole about our own work. appeared first on The Storytelling Non-Profit. Let me know in the comments. The post Do you need to start from scratch?

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Care2

MARCH 1, 2012

Training – The program was framed to organizations as an exercise in best practices. Training included using the the Razoo giving platform the giving day was built on, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report, Geoff describes the training this way: The training program treated the giving day as an exercise in best practices. Core elements included using the Razoo giving platform, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

If you don’t know Chris Block, he is a gifted storyteller. He had do a series of deep breathing exercises to have experience mindfulness. After the we did the exercise, we reflected on the experience. Many participants, like me, had been exposed to mindfulness practice or had done exercises like this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content. A first-person voice is best. Blog posts that share resources and useful tips are some of the most popular on the Social Web.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . To meet needs, they co-fund professional development in areas like fundraising, strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, racial equity work, marketing and communications, storytelling, and more. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content. A first-person voice is best. Blog posts that share resources and useful tips are some of the most popular on the Social Web.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For instance, you could award a prize for the most miles run in a month or reward participation in a daily meditation exercise. Impact storytelling. If you invest in the aforementioned wellness benefits, encourage your employees to leverage them by running fitness- or mindfulness-based challenges. DEI initiatives.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Tip: At this phase in the planning process, it’s also a helpful exercise to consider the potential for future giving. Remember the storytelling part of your case statement?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination. Remember, storytelling and impact are so vital to making donors and fundraisers feel valued and better understanding how they’re making a difference.

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