Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

And/or you can leverage social media influencers to fundraise on behalf of your partner organizations (while helping you spread the word of the social good your brand is doing.). Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Seattle Free School is a really interesting case study for a number of reasons: Social media is integral to the success of the program because it is online but it is also the mechanism for growth and community building. Embrace storytelling. Social Media in Program Delivery. This is something that the 350.org Crowd vs Community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

And/or you can leverage social media influencers to fundraise on behalf of your partner organizations (while helping you spread the word of the social good your brand is doing.). Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Morale suffers – poor data quality leads to a downward spiral: staff members lose confidence in the integrity of the data, who then take less care in the data they enter, and may even revert back to basic spreadsheets and other archaic data management methods. I’m guessing this type of scenario sounds familiar to many of you reading this.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If we can encourage people to go into that space — people that look like us, sound like us, come from the same backgrounds as us — that’s what we need.”. And as a storyteller, I’m particularly proud of how we’ve enabled institutions and individuals to share their stories around mental health in the workplace.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

1) Visual Storytelling. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Try fitting it into the Pixar Storytelling Framework. Sounds like a good time to me. Consider this.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 27, 2023

A content calendar doesn’t have to be as advanced as it may sound—many organizations, especially as they’re getting started on social media, choose to use a spreadsheet. Tell Impact Stories Use storytelling to share about the impact your organization is having and how your donors’ support makes it possible. Ready to learn more?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least. It’s that distance from financial consequences that let communities put best interest and opportunity ahead of other influencers. Community-Driven Strategy.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

This type of fundraising allows you to reach supporters wherever they are as soon as they’re inspired, also known as contextual giving, Contextual giving is an integral fundraising concept that can reduce donation abandonment rates. So, how exactly can your mobile fundraising affect and support your nonprofit storytelling?

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

How content marketing influences donor behavior. How to measure data to influence your marketing decisions i. Who cares if your email open rate jumps 15% if you don’t have an integrated marketing plan to support the lead nurturing process? 70% of nonprofits say they lack an integrated content marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. Now matter which type of story you choose to tell or what medium you use (video, text, photos), here is a simple storytelling structure you can use to create the first draft of your story: Once upon a time…. Social Strategies. And everyday until…. Until one day…. Because of that….

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We love to bring together communications, marketing, digital strategy, and fundraising all together in a strategic integrated way. What do you sound like out in the world? You need to get better at storytelling, like strengthen those muscles and practice it and do it over and over again. That’s kind of what we do.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There are some great books on neuroscience I highly recommend you read from Daniel Kahneman to Robert Sapolsky to figure out how this affects, Robert Cialdini’s book on “Influence” as well. . So if you can integrate why you’re doing what you’re doing, why you care about the cause, makes a difference.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2007

At first listen, the book sounded like a childhood favorite of mine, The Eleventh Hour , a lavishly illustrated whodunit riddled with ciphers and a solution in a sealed envelope. style design integrating evolving visitor content--people aren't visiting the museum with enough frequency to be part of a meaningful dialogue happening there.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Instead of using your general donation page or a basic PayPal button, you’ll want to use a tool that will be able to integrate all of these on a single landing page and one you can customize to your organization’s or appeal’s branding, such as Flipcause. What went well?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Instead of using your general donation page or a basic PayPal button, you’ll want to use a tool that will be able to integrate all of these on a single landing page, and one you can customize to your organization’s or appeal’s branding, such as Flipcause. What went well?

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