EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

Collecting petition signatures A petition is many things: a way to quantify support around an issue; a tactic that helps bring new supporters on board; a relatively light lift to help keep passionate advocates engaged. This means their voices hold power in a range of ways. Some have even described it as a grassroots rally on paper.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Senders lose track of what they casually launched into cyberspace, and recipients struggle with the distracting chatter of too many digital voices. It is also a fun and effective way to ease into conversations about communication, behavior, trust, and other interpersonal issues that are important to keeping culture on track.”

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Another way to get on funders’ radars is to offer to speak to their staff or boards about an issue, which can help position grassroots organizations as experts and resources that may lead to requests to speak in front of a larger audience of funders.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

.” – Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO, ABFE After the session ended, the Shaw band played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Negro National Anthem”). Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2021

When it comes to messaging, it’s also important to identify your organization’s unique voice. Storytelling is one of the hottest buzzwords in the nonprofit industry, and in marketing in general. You already possess a lot of the qualities for a great story because you’re addressing a need or an issue. Stories are relatable.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

That’s why we’ve focused this entire issue on nonprofit impact. Plus, check out the new NTEN Voices section for tips and tools from our team and community! While this story was inspiring, it didn’t necessarily represent the great work SAI did as a whole. For nonprofits, measuring their broader impact can be easier said than done.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

When asking members of The Storytelling Non-Profit community about their organization’s newsletter campaigns, the top challenge their organizations were facing was to find the right type of content that keeps their audience engaged. Share an impact story A great non-profit newsletter idea is to use storytelling. Grab a Free Copy Today!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

When nonprofit leadership takes the time to build relationships, mentor staff, elicit insights and feedback and demonstrate the ability to act on that feedback, the staff will begin to trust that they have a place and a voice within the organization. This is where participatory practice comes in to play.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Congratulations to all of these award winners, and collective gratitude to all the participants in this year’s digital storytelling challenge.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Black voices, Black spaces. At Echoing Green, we celebrate proximity as an asset–believing that leaders from the communities they serve and tackling issues they’ve experienced first-hand hold the most disruptive and effective social change solutions. .

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Develop a Public Relations Plan Advocacy is about being the voice of change. Your strategic plan should outline the issues that matter most to your members while also position your group as a credible and influential force. Webinar Next-Level Storytelling Tactics for Nonprofits Learn More 5.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Changing the narrative is a significant piece in constructing and promoting narratives that challenge existing narratives and the stories to drive change for issue-based organizations, such as social justice organizations, like Color for Change, or non-profit organizations. Narratives about issues can have impacts and implications for policy.

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

Storytelling. One of the hottest buzzwords in nonprofit communications right now is storytelling. The best stories to pitch the media (or include in any communication materials) have the following: Struggle/Solution : What community/personal issues does your organization address? Emotion : People act on emotion! Spread the word?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. Multimedia Storytelling. Do you have lots of different voices? Your blog is for you to share the storytelling you want to, with the kinds of media you want to! Think blogs are boring?

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Drink lots of water beforehand and during the recording session to ensure you’re hydrated and your voice stays strong. Take water and snack breaks to ensure that your voice sounds good and you maintain focus. Stay hydrated. You’ll be speaking for quite some time as you record your podcast. Record in a quiet room. Promote your podcast.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These prompts can take many forms, including chatbots, virtual assistants, web interfaces and voice assistants. This work can include writing newsletters, social media posts, research articles, editorials in the voice of the founder, and grant writing. This can lead to increased productivity and cost savings.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers. We designed and developed a custom website that includes a powerful and integrated storytelling component—“Profiles in Peace”—that allows GIWPS to create its own voice on the platform where site visitors can view videos and oral histories from around the globe.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

Experts say that Gen Z: Wants to see impact through storytelling, primarily through social media videos. But to truly understand how nonprofits can best engage Gen Z on social media, we thought it was important to bring my generation’s voice into the conversation. Has a shorter attention span, which requires content that is skimmable.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 18, 2011

A blog is an opportunity not only to change static into dynamic, but also discover and share voices from your organization. It's a chance to convene and nurture a community of storytellers. Time to mentor emerging storytellers. The vision to know what you want. A strategy for sustainability.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It often feels like there is little hope for our future and that there’s barely anything we can do to solve any of these big issues. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen. Why does nobody save the children?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Just this month they held a day of legislative action bringing together members of the community to hear from legislators on bills currently in session and for the opportunity to elevate their voices on issues concerning the community. Since then, the organization has evolved to address policy issues as well. Higher Heights.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Listen to and believe disabled voices. If an issue of accessibility or ableism is brought forward, then organizations should take it seriously and resist defensiveness. Engage in representative and appropriate storytelling. Recommendations for leadership and management.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

It’s important to know a little about the issue and what some good resources are, to help us have those conversations. It’s important to show our kids that we take the issue seriously and we’re ready to both support them and do our part. The parent voice carries acute moral and emotional weight. Read up on the topic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

To be sure, these are all very important aspects of defining and promoting a nonprofits’ identity, but individual organizations and the sector as a whole have an even bigger reason to sharpen their storytelling skills. Initiating honest dialogue about tough issues like economic class and the disparity between the rich and poor is tough work.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

GivingTuesday has grown in popularity since its inception, with people from all over the world continuously giving their time, money, gifts and voices to the causes they care about. Storytelling works. Elements of effective storytelling in #MyGivingStory entries included: A polished, thoughtful and complete narrative.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

How can we make storytellers feel safe and trust that their stories will be told with the utmost respect and in a way that they would want them to be told? Below we have outlined a few key strategies for ethical storytelling, along with some specific guidelines on the full video production process that you can consider. Key Points. ?

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

This first connection came up for me in the panel I organized on storytelling for movement building. Stacey Monk of Epic Change, Mark Horvath of Invisible People, and Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love, Little Hearts shared their perspectives on authentic storytelling from personal experiences. Over to You. How do you face this challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and Cindy Johanson from Edutopia shared some case studies about storytelling and what inspires people to share your organization’s content. Trick= find the shark week for your issue. Trick= find the shark week for your issue. “The key is working with a good designer.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

The storytelling was engaging and compelling. Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

During this time of deep societal shifts and growing consciousness about political, social and environmental issues, corporations have been trying to reconcile the paradox of whether capitalism and social consciousness can co-exist. With crowdfunding individuals can donate their voice, network and time to the causes they care about.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. Embrace storytelling. I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Public voting process. Crowd vs Community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

During this time of deep societal shifts and growing consciousness about political, social and environmental issues, corporations have been trying to reconcile the paradox of whether capitalism and social consciousness can co-exist. With crowdfunding individuals can donate their voice, network and time to the causes they care about.

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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. Give them a voice and let them help you spread the word. Information Sharing and Storytelling. Increase Employee Giving. Strengthen your Internal Partnerships.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

There were also the people whose idea of forecasting the future and budgeting was basically storytelling and conjuring. Seeing the negative, voicing the reasons for such issues, and then finding solutions are all really hard to do. They wouldn’t speak negativity because they didn’t want to take sides, say. Why do people do this?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our Nonprofits Live interactive series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues. Currently, as project manager for TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign. Many teams struggle with bringing the best and brightest together effectively to get more done. Pacific time.

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