Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Storytelling is important in the social good community. Visual images help donors visualize and understand what the organizations they support are doing, and how their contributions make a difference. Today’s guest joined the podcast to talk about how organizations can better incorporate visual elements into their storytelling.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping. Use this space!

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail fundraising should be an integral part of your nonprofit’s direct response strategy. Direct mail fundraising can also feel more personal for donors, especially when your messaging aligns with their preferences. Top Direct Mail Fundraising FAQs What is direct mail fundraising? Let’s get started! Contact Us!

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Use ads to promote major fundraising campaigns, events, or cause awareness days. Widening your audience reach provides your organization with more opportunities to expand your fundraising campaigns and raise more money for your cause. Use pictures with people in them for the highest engagement. Use high-quality images for ads.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Modern technology provides us all with new opportunities for storytelling, including new ways to approach the ever-important visual element. That is the topic of the most recent episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast: Visual Storytelling: A Picture is Worth 60,000 Words. Wrap our heads around the idea of visual storytelling.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Contributed to your fundraising campaigns? . Ask if any will submit a story or picture to showcase their success. Storytelling is also a powerful tool to engage your stakeholders, especially with compelling images and graphics. How many members engaged in your fundraising efforts compared to last year? .

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As a fundraising professional, chances are, you’ve heard of LinkedIn. Make sure your “About” section provides an accurate picture of your mission and what your organization does. The two most important pictures on your profile will be your profile picture and header image. Network and create an outreach strategy.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. The “down” months tend to include most of the period leading up to the year-end fundraising bonanza. Incorporate these six elements into your website to see better fundraising results: 1. Motivational imagery. Intuitive user experience.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with your followers. Share stories of your fundraising campaigns and the cause that you’re promoting. Include pictures and details of their contributions, express how thankful you are. You can thank your supporters weekly with images and videos. Show that you are grateful!

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

But don’t forget to craft a vision statement, too, that lays a vivid picture of the future you aim to create. Focus on Financial Management, Not Just Fundraising Obviously, building a steady stream of revenue is going to be an important part of your strategic plan. Webinar Next-Level Storytelling Tactics for Nonprofits Learn More 5.

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Classy

MAY 17, 2021

As the largest fundraising day of the year only continues to grow, now is the time for your organization to begin mapping out its strategy to make the most out of your December. Free Download: Your Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling. Nonprofits raised more than $2.47 billion in the U.S. Download the Guide to Pitching Corporate Sponsors.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using Storytelling in Your Appeal . The dodo’s popularity brings up another excellent point: the importance of video in storytelling. Similarly, you can use your smartphone to take high-quality before and after pictures of more serious cases and add those pictures to a slideshow on your donation page.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

For example, if your podcast is about fundraising, you would research experts in the fundraising sphere, such as authors of fundraising books, fundraising consultants , and fundraising event planners. This includes your podcast’s icon, feature images for each episode, and the landing page. Hosting site.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, creating a strong social media presence isn’t as simple as writing a post and hitting “send” or taking a few pictures and uploading them online. Use your organization’s brand colors, fonts, and logos in all of the pictures and videos you post on social media. Focus on storytelling. Determine what channels to use.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether you lead a church, a temple, or another type of faith-based organization, fundraising is a recurring task on your to-do list. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in. Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most popular fundraising methods for faith-based organizations. Let’s dive into how. Download eBook.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

If you’re looking for a cost-effective and efficient way to ask for donations from your donors and prospects, look no further than a fundraising email! Because of the nature of email, many of these fundraising strategies will differ from, say, the tactics you would implement to ask for a donation face-to-face. Don’t wait to ask.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership. The conference presents a great opportunity for fundraisers across the nonprofit industry to hear from thought leaders and Neon One experts, network with other nonprofit professionals, and hone their fundraising skills!

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While big-picture concepting, co-collaborating, prototyping, and testing may be part of many traditional creative and design processes, we recognize that they oftentimes require more time, or money, than many organizations have at their disposal. Because many nonprofits rely on galas for the bulk of their annual fundraising (networking!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to email and your website, social media has become one of the more effective tools for nonprofit fundraising, especially for a crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a fundraising strategy in which a nonprofit raises many small donations from a variety of people. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. Liveblogging, Curation, and Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

The majority of the boards we saw were very much about lifestyle: pictures of pretty stuff, hot style, and cool design. I decided it would be worth the effort to create a compelling Camfed collection of images on Pinterest, and I wanted to do it strategically, leveraging the viral nature of the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Fundraising for your cause is exciting, challenging and should be unique to your mission. Annual appeals, #GivingTuesday and end-of-year fundraising campaigns are imperative to sustaining your operating costs, however, stimulating a donor or member to give beyond those efforts can be challenging.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each unique segment of your audience, also sometimes known as a persona. Did he engage with a recent fundraising email? Click an online ad?

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2013

Brad Egel, a decade-long fundraising resident of Chicago and cancer-awareness advocate, had no personal ties or engagement with cancer victims or survivors. As his fundraising progressed, so did his dedication to the American Cancer Society. Image: Teespring.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just like with any other type of fundraiser, food drives require lots of planning. Are branding and design really that vital to the success of a fundraiser? Set up a peer-to-peer fundraising page, complete with a thermometer to track how much money your food drive has raised. Virtual pantry drive. Keep it simple.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the world of nonprofit fundraising, stories are more than just words on a page or images on a screen; they are the beating heart of your mission. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures. We are constantly seeking purpose and significance in the world. Now imagine your ideal donors.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. Fundraising videos. Their winner’s page is a great place to view some good fundraising short videos. Images and Videos.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? AFP Florida. ). charitywater.

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

We’re great for sharing information about a cause on Twitter or helping YouTube videos go viral, but, other than that, we are useless to fundraising efforts. What if the problem with Millennials and fundraising isn’t that our generation doesn’t care enough to actually give? Rather, we want to go about it in a different way.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Your fundraising campaign page is your digital storefront and your most effective tool for connecting with potential donors. To help you design a fundraising campaign like a pro without starting from scratch, check out some of our tried-and-true tips below. Example of what a branded campaign page could look like.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Over the last few weeks, I’ve posted articles about fundraising messaging and writing advice for fundraising appeals. One of the tactics I frequently use is storytelling to increase awareness of a campaign (surprise, surprise). Using Stories to Increase Awareness of a Year-End Fundraising Campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

By Laura Bucher , Storyteller at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Additionally, use pictures and lists to make your content more visually appealing and easier to read. Look at each image on a page and write a short, accurate description.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.” Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

For example, is it a call to action, a fundraising appeal, or just generating awareness. The built-in tools of these two programs allow users to add titles; captions, important for making videos accessible for the hearing impaired; splice in other video and images, and add sound. Digital Storytelling Methods: Time and Resources Needed?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 22, 2021

One way to kickstart the season of giving is by participating in #GivingTuesday fundraising. Since #GivingTuesday is fueled by online donations (and 2020 saw a 32% increase in online fundraising revenue for nonprofits), it’s a good idea to focus on your online audiences. On GivingTuesday 2020, over $2.47 You can too. Get started here.

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