Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

A picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Note the clear language to identify the object, the action, the background or context, and then most importantly the artistic style that the output should create.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The content you post should be crafted with your platform and audience in mind. For example, you could plan to post short, engaging Instagram reels to share your nonprofit’s story and easy ways a younger audience can get involved. Use your logo as your profile picture. Use a similar tone and language as your other accounts.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. As long as you’re giving donors a great experience ( thanking them well , communicating consistently, telling heartwarming stories, etc.), Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

And beyond that, you can expand your reach to find even more like-minded people who would resonate with your mission and be interested in supporting your organization. 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.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

Understand your audience When planning your marketing strategy, it’s helpful to start with the end in mind—who are you trying to reach? To paint a comprehensive picture of your audience, there are several different sources you’ll need to pull from, including: Previous data. Opting for interactive content.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-developed planned giving program often will utilize a gift acceptance policy (with language for donors to include in their estate planning), donor journeys, communication plans, and an administrative breakdown for bequest processing to help maintain clear policies and streamlined communication between planned donors and the organization.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’ll get into more detail about the types of emails you can send, but all of them should include some story-driven content. Here’s what this email should include: A thank you message An update on what you’ve been doing Pictures or graphics to tell your story. Simply thank your donors. Let them know you’re thinking of them.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. “Map out the story you need to tell. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” It’s a conversation.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

When scheduling your ad campaigns, keep in mind that some months are more lucrative when it comes to donations. Creating compelling ads involves choosing the best ad format for your campaign and using your ads to tell a story that encourages people to click on your advertisement. Use high-quality images for ads.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 1, 2015

Below, you’ll find out why storytelling is so crucial to a nonprofit website, and how to tell stories that resonate with others. You can answer that in an engaging way through stories. Canine Partners for Life , which trains service dogs for people who need them, does a great job using people’s real stories.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And I wonder if you could share a little bit about how it’s been for you to be working with this imagery, this visual language that you’re creating? And I had two very specific ideas in mind when I was thinking about the soundtrack to accompany this poem. It’s not their story. Devyn Taylor: Yeah.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. Your list might look something like this: Andrea’s success story. Jamie’s success story. Part 1: Start your email with a success story. . Keep the story short and to the point.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With those statistics in mind, let’s take a look at what this reveals about donors. With that in mind, we can remove that from the general understanding of donor behavior for the rest of the day. What you can learn : Create a cohesive story about what GivingTuesday campaign donations will fund. Who Is Giving?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story. Humans see the big picture. Saving staffers from mind-numbing repetitive tasks and opening time to innovate are some of the best reasons to prioritize understanding AI. Here is my disclaimer. Most of these concepts are up for grabs.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. We created this guide to help you build just that. Here's where it comes into play.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

Whether you need permission to post photos you take for your library or charity depends on how they will be used and if the people in the pictures can be identified. If the person pictured is under 18 years of age. For pictures that you use for current news stories. Our form is geared toward people over the age of 18.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2015

Whenever you have an opportunity to tell your organization’s story, you should focus less on what the organization does and more on what you and your colleagues believe. And it is that something which like-minded donors are most likely to respond to and support with their time and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results. Before we took a deep dive with Janet on social awareness skills, we had a short session on understanding non-verbal communication such as body language. ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2010

Who in their right mind would predict the death of Facebook given its ever increasing dominance ? Livingston recommends keeping an eye in Ipad apps such as Flipboard which allows users to create their own magazine based on preferences and socially recommended content and ABC’s iPad app , a visual globe of news stories.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They recruited some of their strongest supporters to act as “AuSM Champions” and run peer-to-peer fundraising pages, then invite all their friends to a livestream event full of cooking demonstrations, personal stories, and drawings. Colleen also made sure to create a robust template for her fundraisers with boilerplate language and images.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go. Tell me your story.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now. It's a story of what happened after you launched that program, gave that speech, conquered that challenge. That's the story a vision tells. A vision is a story. Use evocative language, engage the senses, engage your emotions.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

So, your message must paint a clear picture so the donor easily understands the impact their gift will make. It lands in the heart and mind of the listener or reader and just makes sense. That’s because they are crafted with the person on the receiving end—the listener— in mind. I call it “Who-How-Story.”. Free of jargon.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Understanding the new up-and-coming generation is a little like learning a new language—and I’m not just talking about deciphering their slang. And we need to do so in their language. Tell stories. Post pictures. Keep this in mind when you think about looking for your next generation of donors. Tap into this power.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

They aren''t intended to force fit our work to aspirational language; instead, they are intended to make transparent that which is existing but ephemeral. I can''t harbor secret hopes that everyone will like it or that I can change their minds with goodwill. We''re working on a theory of change. They are still problems.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

This more complete picture of how people are talking about your issues and candidates will form the underpinning of your message development and engagement strategy. It provides the ability to respond immediately , engaging people when their mind is freshly focused on the issue(s). Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Outputs should be captured to help paint a picture of your giving and impact, but they aren’t the whole story. The nuance between these two terms is important to keep in mind as the sector moves from traditional checkbook philanthropy to the results-focused giving model. Granting vs. Investing.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems? When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The video is a cohesive, beautiful story, and it's obvious to any user how her frame might be integrated into the whole.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Supporters simply connected their Twitter profile with Twibbon on the TMWL Twibbon page, and the tool updated the Twitter profile picture of the user with an overlay that included the campaign logo and hashtag. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. That directed the build.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Use warm values-based language and feelings into your messaging. Get creative. Welcome packet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! Thank you, Viet-Ly!" Just very sincere.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . They made sure that we got to hear stories from some of these folks, but they put a face on what our impact would be if we gave. I love the copy as well as the picture. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We recommend using an integrated payment processor and including information about it in your form (like the PCI badge pictured below) so donors can be sure that your donation process is secure. Picture a potential donor. You might tell a story about a person affected by your organization or about a particularly dedicated volunteer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They end up keeping the templated language and design on the page. That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. Lean on your team captains.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It can tell a story! How do you know what stories, images, and language to use in your upcoming campaign? You may discover, for example, that your story-driven fall fundraiser outperformed your program-oriented spring appeal. That may inspire you to run more story-driven campaigns in the future.

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TechImpact

MARCH 6, 2014

Many people view big data as the key to unlock marketing potential and grant thorough insight into the minds and habit of constituents. Dell is famous for receiving 25,000 mentions across their social media channels in 11 different languages every day. Keep an eye on these big picture numbers before trying to harness specifics.

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