CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether you’re running a marathon to raise money for mental health or you are a nonprofit considering hosting a peer-to-peer birthday fundraiser , building an effective personal fundraising page is the first step towards creating positive change in the world. What is Peer-To-Peer Fundraising?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To captivate your audience and make a lasting impression, follow these tips: Tell Your Story : Your nonprofit has a unique story to tell, and it’s essential to share it authentically. Personal stories from beneficiaries or volunteers can be particularly effective in conveying your organization’s message.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

By putting together a comprehensive profile of your audience, your nonprofit is better able to create personalized content that speaks to your audience and drives them to action. Push your organization to start telling new stories. But stories that focus on the nonprofit often fail to drive constituents to action.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. No personal attacks ad hominem comments. Do you have one in place?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Passionate in its belief that people with additional needs shouldn’t have to compromise their hopes and aspirations, the organisation strives to take a whole-person approach to beneficiaries, supporting every aspect of their lives. Supporting the Individual Through Person-Centred Care. Transforming the Future Through Technology.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Create Space for Evolution Don’t fixate on giving every goal a finite timeline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

Your organization’s brand story holds immense power, especially for nonprofits striving to engage donors, volunteers, and partners. Here’s why storytelling is so vital: 1) Creating an Emotional Connection: Stories have the power to evoke emotions and connect with audiences on a personal level.

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Bloomerang

MAY 4, 2021

Imagine a story where someone was born, everything went perfectly from beginning to end, and then the story was over. When it comes to a good nonprofit story, struggle and overcoming are at the center. Knowing what struggle your nonprofit helps solve will help you get good at identifying which stories you should be sharing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there expertise we can share? This big little idea was simply to hold space for CDOs to talk about what’s stressing them out and share experiences, ideas, and lessons learned with others who are facing the same challenges and finding their way through. How do we raise money without in-person events? How can we retain talent?

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. If possible, include a photo of the stakeholder!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s like seeing a new place through the eyes of a local, where you engage in authentic conversations, share personal experiences, and build a community that’s genuinely interested in your cause. Ready to meet (and exceed) your 2024 fundraising goals? Share statistics, facts, and news related to your cause.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We love hearing about nonprofits’ successful fundraising strategies in action, and sharing these stories allows nonprofits to learn from each other. One of the best ways to become a fundraising success story is to leverage the data in your nonprofit donor database to better reach and personalize donor outreach.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When I talk with non-profit professionals about their storytelling endeavors, I often get asked questions about interviewing someone for their story. Story interviews for non-profits are a skill you can master. Story Interviews for Non-Profits – Why You Need to Have a Conversation and Not Just an Email Exchange.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What are the strategies and tactics that best helped you achieve your goals last year? 2) Review Your Goals. 2) Review Your Goals. Review your end-of-year fundraising goals, but think deeper. Donors shouldn’t be motivated to give because of a number that fits into your programmatic goals. Here’s how to start.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! Invite mid-level donors into your strategy.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Issue awareness campaigns and messages can be directed at existing or potential supporters, with the goal of educating them about a specific issue. Legislative advocacy and lobbying Legislative advocacy happens when someone contacts lawmakers with the goal of influencing legislation. This is where issue awareness comes in.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. In this article, I want to take it back to basics so you understand what is a story and why they matter for your non-profit. What is a Story? There you have it!

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MARCH 7, 2022

Story arcs play an important role in non-profit narrative development. We often place a lot of emphasis on individual stories and use those individual stories in fundraising and communications. Why Non-Profits Need to Think in Story Arcs. Over time, a season in the case of a TV show, a story arc reveals itself.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The idea for Veterans Heritage Project began in teacher Barbara Hatch’s classroom in 1998 when she was inspired to invite veterans to share their stories with her students. Saluting Stories of Service is one of The Veterans Heritage Project’s signature events that features a silent auction. Powerful Impact Statements.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

We learned important personal and professional lessons through the trials and sprints of the last two years: resiliency, the importance and interdependence of our personal and community safety nets, our boundaries, and awareness of our respective privileges and challenges.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In particular, they have a track record of running incredible #GivingTuesday campaigns, exceeding their goal year after year. Fiver’s goal is to empower children to make positive life choices, to become engaged citizens, and to succeed in school and beyond. Set A Goal. Why CauseVox? Insights From Fiver.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whether you tell stories in your fundraising or communications program, chances are you want to understand the impact and return on investment (or ROI) of the stories you tell. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

Make sure it’s timely, personalized, and has a sense of urgency. Make it personal. If possible, use tangible examples to show how their personal contributions have supported your mission. Offering to help each donor customize their personal fundraising page is another nice touch. Provide all of the details.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

Colleen McGrath, Development Manager at Mojave Desert Land Trust told us that she joined the MDLT team after the event was in place, but it was her work responding to COVID and bringing in the personal touch that helped their Miles for MDLT event reach success in 2020, and come back for more in 2021.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. Yes, you’ll get found other ways, like by sharing posts on your social accounts. Search Engine Optimization. But you can change that.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While advocating for survivors in San Francisco, I witnessed first-hand how critical stories are in tapping into people’s empathy. However, it wasn’t until my career took a turn into strategic communications and marketing that I learned just how integral a winning story is to the success of an advocacy campaign. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

The fundraising pendulum is swinging back to “in person,” but that doesn’t mean you should ease up your online efforts, particularly peer-to-peer fundraising. Here’s why: It boosts the donations of almost any fundraising campaign, helping you to reach your goals. Demonstrate built-in gamification and sharing tools. ?.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

Instead of pausing the event, NMAAHC saw a new opportunity to create a virtual version of the event that achieved new goals and continued the mission of this amazing event. I was thrilled to share the story alongside the program creators, NMAAHC’s Dierdre Cross and Leslie Walker , at the recent MuseumNext virtual conference. “A

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2024

Individuals raising money for a cause they care about deeply want to surpass their donation goals and build enthusiasm for the mission. Person-to-person matchmaking, though, is just the beginning. Set a Goal, Then Raise It For individual P2P fundraisers, having something to aim for always helps.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Launch a Storytelling Campaign Studies have proven that storytelling is much more effective than fact-sharing alone. When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. That’s a lot of eyes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If you want a good overview of the Sharing Economy from a nonprofit perspective, read these two posts from TechSoup, Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Share Economy and Nonprofits Imagine A Better Sharing Economy. I think of GivingTuesday as a great example of a sharing economy fundraiser. 1: Relationships Matter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I recently met with Drew Bernard to learn what ActionSprout is all about; and I got so excited that I asked him to share a guest post I could put up here so you could get excited, too. In other words when a person takes an action like “Join” or simply clicks like on the post itself, do any of their friends join them?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. And how do you tell a good story? At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Stories are powerful. It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. What is Nonprofit Storytelling?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. With our blog firmly established as a valuable source of content, we are now developing strategies to further leverage our blog to support our policy goals. Tweetchat with high profile person (Fran Drescher). Retweet high profile tweets.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Stories help embed a message into context and, often, entertainment. The message is the medication , and the story is the peanut butter. Sure, some of us have an inherent knack for weaving a good story, but the truth is storytelling can be learned, practiced, and mastered. . The strategy behind the stories you tell.

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