Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign. kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives. At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. Before delving into data storytelling, it's important to remember what the goal is.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

I also had the privilege of speaking on another Online Storytelling panel with Roger Burks and Jay Davis. This live session rounded out our Online Storytelling Bootcamp webinar series with a focus on how to create a culture of storytelling within one's organization. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling. Having volunteers lead calls , facilitate meetings, speak out about their own experiences, and have a sense of ownership over the success of their teams.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Make sure your donation page is ready to welcome the small screen, facilitating donations via mobile and enabling easy sharing of your page. Wrapping Up We’ve journeyed through the essential factors that make a giving page not just good, but great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations. Share compelling stories: Communicate your organization’s mission and impact through powerful storytelling during the event. Make the process as seamless as possible.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 5, 2022

They want to know how they're going to make a difference, how they're going to facilitate some amount of change. Strive to demonstrate to donors how they’re agents of change in the cause, to show how it is that they’re supporting us, and what it is that we're facilitating through their donation. Download this case study today!

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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Storytelling Storytelling has also become a prominent concept connected to data processes in philanthropy. Although data can be used in advocacy and policy change processes, even the most rigorous data cannot achieve policy change without shifts in our understandings and the self and collective narratives around pressing issues.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising. BWF’s steps to annual giving encourage storytelling through your annual giving campaign. Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising. To facilitate effective peer-to-peer fundraising: Reach out to supporters personally to invite them to participate. Plan kickoff and wrapping up events.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Use Storytelling. . . . . Storytelling enables a phenomenon known as mirroring. It allows connection to happen between the audience and the storyteller on a deeper level. Storytelling is another great way to invoke the senses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Another creative way of doing the debrief, is to use organizational storytelling. Have each member of the team share a story.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You can facilitate donors’ participation by telling the story of their tangible impact. Use storytelling and real-life examples to demonstrate the importance of their support. What is the quantifiable impact of each dollar amount raised? How many people will your organization provide ‘x’ resource with ‘y’ dollar amount?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

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. . Through deft facilitation, a funder coalition can achieve powerful unity without requiring perfect agreement. .

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DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2020

By covering the purchase cost of your DipJar, your sponsor is facilitating your organization to increase fundraising. Check out our previous blog posts on Storytelling best practices: 8 Tips for Nonprofit Storytelling and The Go-To Template for Mastering Nonprofit Storytelling. Create an Anniversary Campaign!

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. With these website elements, you can create a fundraising culture within your organization that facilitates donations 365 days a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I like how these qualities easily link to networked approaches, storytelling, and iteration, but can also be linked to specific measurable data points. Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To make the process easier, partner with a product fundraiser provider who facilitates product ordering and distribution. You may even include a storytelling element that brings your mission to life. While the concept of product fundraising is simple, it may seem daunting to secure the products and sell them on your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

To be sure, these are all very important aspects of defining and promoting a nonprofits’ identity, but individual organizations and the sector as a whole have an even bigger reason to sharpen their storytelling skills. This call to action is right on point. Changing pre-conceived notions and popular myths is certainly not any easier.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

One way to do this is by having an impartial moderator or facilitator. Use Storytelling. . . . . Storytelling enables a phenomenon known as mirroring. It allows connection to happen between the audience and the storyteller on a deeper level. Storytelling is another great way to invoke the senses.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes an optimized website that’s mobile-friendly and easy to navigate, strategic use of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase visibility during times of high public interest, and an established monthly giving program to facilitate the transition from one-time to recurring donations.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story. That’s the beauty of data-driven storytelling.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Older donors often appreciate storytelling and nostalgia. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans. Craft messaging that resonates with their values, legacy, and desire to make a lasting impact. Provide clear instructions.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Here are a few tips to follow to facilitate a smooth recording session: Warm up. Whether you’re passionate about corporate sponsorships or nonprofit storytelling, podcasts give you a platform to speak at length about these subjects. Record your podcast. It’s time to sit down and record your podcast!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. No brochures: digital storytelling for nonprofits. Joe Lambert, Digital Storytelling. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Multimedia Storytelling. Your blog is for you to share the storytelling you want to, with the kinds of media you want to! Think blogs are boring? Well, maybe the kind you have seen are. How To Start a Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2017

But here’s an example and tool to help play that out — See3 recently facilitated a workshop for a national nonprofit working to align its chapters around a signature program – everyone was doing it differently, which is no way to scale (and no way to work). Easier said than done, for sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell, Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? Next thing we know, this happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

As part of work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a number of peer learning exchanges on measurement with grantees, including Global Giving and learned about their storytelling project which is an attempt to measure the effectiveness of how dollars raised are being used to create social change.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In your role as philanthropy facilitator you can help them figure out ways to give more than they may have thought. Channel The Storytelling Mode Of “ Once Upon A Time ” . Don’t Ask Major Donors For Gifts Without A Strategy. Donors think holistically about their commitment to you. Don’t make your loyal major donor have to say “no.” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

We received a wide array of funny, moving and informative videos that embraced strong storytelling to communicate important messages. We’ve been working hard the past few days and are happy to share that we’ve narrowed down this year’s DoGooder Video Award submissions to a few special finalists!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll The project was lucky enough to receive a donation from Cisco of FLIP cameras and I think the most fun I had creating curriculum was the one above on storytelling and making simple and effective content for NGOs.

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