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How to Build a Story Arc for a Non-Profit Fundraising Campaign

The Storytelling Non-profit

As a non-profit professional, it’s essential to come out of the weeds of individual storytelling so that you can be strategic with what you tell your audience over time. Here’s a video tutorial I made that walks you through how to create a 90-day communications plan. Non-profit fundraising and communications programs are like this.

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4 Ways to Use Trello to Manage Your Non-Profit Communications Program

The Storytelling Non-profit

In addition to using Trello for The Storytelling Non-Profit, I use it personally for meal planning and household management. You can also use a Trello story bank to track any leads you get for stories and keep your story interview notes for future reference. Here's my step-by-step tutorial for setting up a story bank.

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TikTok for Good: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Marketing on TikTok

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Like any other marketing tool or social media platform, TikTok’s value is in its storytelling ability. United Way has repurposed images of their volunteers and video interviews of their staff to create several TikToks that raise awareness of their work. TikTok videos can be doubled as tutorials as well!

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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Get the Equipment You Need to Shoot a Professional-Looking Video

Tech Soup

Check out Wistia's tutorial on shooting video with an iPhone for even more mobile video tips. (If If you're shooting video with an Android or Windows Phone, this tutorial is still useful.). Be sure to check out all of TechSoup's digital storytelling resources and join us for Storymakers 2016! spanhidden.

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Pick of the Week: WNYC's RadioLab

Museum 2.0

They each do interviews with outsiders separately, and then they set up those interviews on air by "explaining" them to each other. They make radio a discussion, not a tutorial. They are storytellers, not fact sharers. Tags: storytelling design. They have arguments about consciousness without sounding pretentious.

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Great reads from around the web on May 28th

Amy Sample Ward

Wild Apricot Blog : Make Your Own Infographic – "Infographics are to data what storytelling is to an annual report: a more engaging way to help bring attention and understanding to your nonprofit’s cause. Yesterday we looked at an interesting infographic that suggested a new way to view your volunteers.

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