Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final. Our Story of Tomorrow winner, SEEDS final from Seeds of Awareness , succeeds in filming youth at this moment of awakening. Our Story of Tomorrow winner, SEEDS final from Seeds of Awareness , succeeds in filming youth at this moment of awakening. This is a powerful idea.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

Develop your brand voice. Before you get started in building a content strategy, you should first ensure you know your brand voice. A brand voice is your reference point for how your organization speaks to various audiences, both internally and externally. It can be fun and light-hearted, but it should all support your mission.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

You should also work to develop your brand’s voice and language across your social media profiles. Focus on storytelling. Every nonprofit has a story, but how do you tell yours? The most important part of any content strategy is honing your storytelling skills. Use eye-catching imagery. Drive engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Harness the Power of Storytelling. After all, the people on the charity: water team are masters at storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

A 24-hour fundraising campaign like #GivingTuesday (mark your calendar for December 2 nd , 2014) is the perfect opportunity to experiment with new tactics and tools, and to showcase inspiring stories from your nonprofit. 24 hours, 24 stories. You could even “unlock” each story as a specific amount of money is raised.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Information Sharing and Storytelling. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Offer profile/success stories for employee communications. Organize a healthy competition between departments that is fun and positive. Increase Employee Giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

We [ myself , @MeganSoffe r , and @PIRDave from OnGood ] streamed an interview and a short 20-minute session, but with creativity and time for planning, Periscope streaming as a storytelling tool is untapped and a future fundraising success story yet to be told. Don’t be too scripted and embrace the unexpected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received.

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2011

And don't forget to carve out time for fun like coming to Charityoke: An NPTech Karaoke Party tonight from 7PM to 10PM at Public Bar - 1214 18th Street, NW sponsored by Care2 , Rad Campaign , and Salsa Labs. Up Close and Personal: How Storytelling Builds Movements. What Donors Really Do Online: Nine Years of Fundraising Data from 1.8

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

The story of Peter Pan is well-known, but it's just as unique for its tone as its content. The key is not to write the story/label/instructions. Chances are, the stories you'll tell your friend are not the text of the labels, even though you probably spent painstaking hours crafting that text. Tags: storytelling.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? Put People at the Forefront of Your Stories. Your audience will respond to stories that immediately grab their attention. Share their stories with your audience.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A position on an event committee can keep your sponsor happy with their decision to work with you, as they’ll feel they are truly involved and can make their voice heard as you work together to do good in the community. You could also make it extra fun by giving away free branded swag to all who attend!

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

How it works for nonprofits: This helps you be a voice for whatever cause you’re advocating. You can also add the snaps to your story, where people can view it for longer without it disappearing. How it works for nonprofits: Use the storytelling feature to come up with ways to showcase the work your volunteers are doing.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Pratima: Although my role is mainly executional, there’s usually a little bit of room for concepting in the initial stages of any design, which is fun because that’s the time to take more risks. Even if we don’t go in those directions, the challenge of figuring out how to push something new whilst staying true to our voice is enjoyable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

blog Streetside Stories Mission: "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It’s going to be a fun one. We help you all tell your story to the masses and raise more funds faster. But a lot of fun. That’s kind of a part of my story. However, my story didn’t end there, and I want to kind of quickly tell you what happened next. And it was really fun to experience that.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Fun and fellowship will yield dividends. Figure out how to make your board meetings fun. Agenda preparation is an opportunity to engage the executive committee and give them a role and a voice in board governance. In this mission moment, you can have a client tell their nonprofit story to the board.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Up your storytelling game. Use an emotionally compelling image or a short story at the top of your form that illustrates what kind of positive impact your donors are having on your beneficiaries. Here are two strategies to implement in your direct mail materials to help you better connect with donors: Rely on strong storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

The bot is more fun and engaging than most—full of animated gifs, puns, and witty comments about relativity and robots, even if they don’t match the question you asked. The stories are about missionary projects such as helping nuns care for the kids in the slums of Nairobi. Health Information Support and Counseling.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

She's the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and she's going to tell how to use story to change people's ideas and get your idea across. Good stories will tell better than didactic tracks. You have to think of something new and different and use an "up" voice to talk about it. It's an idea whose time has come.

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2017

It’s hard to think about year-end fundraising when you’re still frying eggs on the sidewalk, but hear us out: Trade just a few hours of poolside fun for year-end early planning, and your organization will benefit many times over. Gather beneficiary stories. (Though kudos for still clicking through to read!). Clean up your data.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Working for a large nonprofit focused on programs and services that have impact on peoples’ lives, we often find ourselves with great stories of inspiration to tell. The challenge is identifying ways for the staff, who are responsible for implementing programs of impact every day, to tell the organization’s stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Virtual concert A livestreamed concert can bring all the fun of a summer concert to your supporters, without the heat, bugs, and dust! Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Namely, how to spice up an email program, tell compelling stories, show the human side of your organization, and build strong emotional connections between your audience and your issue. By Danny De Bonis, Director, Political Media, IB5K. Every campaign is bedeviled with certain challenges. Earth Day, Remixed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Participant Media "Participant believes that a good story well told can truly make a difference in how one sees the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations. Check out this post by Toby over at Think Social about storytelling using charity:water as an example.) This custom landing page was created by the good folks at Sprout.). Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Learn more at: petitions.whitehouse.gov.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Neon CRM

JULY 5, 2023

Harnessing the power of AI to generate or enhance content can help you create compelling posts while maintaining your unique voice and style. Fun and immersive content that invites audience participation, like quizzes, polls, and interactive infographics, boosts engagement and interaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org. Present.me.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A success story. Put your storytelling skills to good use to grab your readers and get them invested in your cause. Use active voice wherever you can and include information your supporters want to know about. If you’re sharing information and statistics, try to present it in a fun way with an infographic.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. I’m hoping NFPtweetup Four will be as challenging, fun, informative, and as unexpectedly good as usual. The photos were awesome and told a powerful story of crisis and recovery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Nonprofit Social Media Storytelling Facebook Group :: facebook.com/groups/socialmediastorytelling. A Facebook Group for for nonprofit professionals to share ideas and advice about the best ways to use social media to share their stories. PowToon enables user to create video animations for video storytelling and presentations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. Then we also worked directly in CCF, which was the most fun ever. It was so fun. We had fun, we played. I know in my heart I cannot get fixated on the story, I have to experience the soul.

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