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From Dusty Boxes to Digital Gold: Transforming Nonprofit Histories into Fundraising Assets with Digital Archives

Allegiance Group

Every nonprofit has a rich history, but it’s likely contained in various places — boxes in the basement, awards in a display case, memories of a long-time staff member or volunteer. What happens when the basement floods or your volunteer passes away? Photograph all elements with an overhead camera and save them as large TIFF files.

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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some radio stations cannot demand listeners to do something such as ask for donations or recruit volunteers – rather the “call to action” has to be softer such as “visit our website to learn more”. . You also need to talk to everyone, not a specific audience. Step 3: Produce the PSA.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

.orgSource

Don’t forget volunteers. What are the requirements for calendar and file sharing? Stuart is currently Founder and Chief Storyteller at Social Frequency Media and, Composer, and Producer of the Art Scores Gallery Project. But, to create enthusiasm and buy-in, appoint a special oversight committee. Are there safety considerations?

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6 Ideas for Using the Instagram Donation Sticker to Raise Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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What You Need to Know for Successful Year-End Fundraising

The Storytelling Non-profit

In this post, you’ll learn why storytelling is a key component of your year-end fundraising campaign and how to start planning the storytelling aspects of your campaign today. . Storytelling for Fundraising – It’s a Non-negotiable. The best way to help them understand that is through storytelling. .

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

Tech Soup

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. See more digital storytelling learning opportunities at the official TSDigs page.

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 To make these files as searchable as possible, NMAAHC teamed up with Forum One and Quotient to build the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Porta l. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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