Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Because of the unique factors that come into play with each and every project, the Media Cause creative team uses several different approaches to help explore, establish, and implement a common visual language with our clients and development teams: m oodboards, style tiles, style guides, and stylescapes. . Moodboards. Style tiles.

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Language Design Guide Phase 52

sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Tell your organization’s story. Tell your organization’s story. Kanopi’s healthcare website design guide recommends unifying your site’s design and branding decisions around a core message or story. Avoid jargon and idioms, use straightforward language, and keep your navigational mechanisms the same across all pages.

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Websites Organization Tips Map 76

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

The post-emergency phase sees many organizations grappling with a decline in donations, a critical period where strategic donor engagement can make a difference. By using cause-specific language that clearly conveys the urgency of needs on the ground, you can compel donors to take immediate action through their communications across channels.

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Support Donor Community Retention 52

Forum One

APRIL 6, 2021

Your brand narrative is a set of tools that staff and key stakeholders can use to tell your brand story beyond visuals. If so, when will we phase out that message and transition fully to a new one? How are other organizations in this space describing their work and how can we ensure we use language that explains what we do?

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Reflection Audience Story Phase 47

Classy

APRIL 19, 2021

Use language that creates a sense of exclusivity. Use these soft launch email templates to help guide your email strategy and boost donor engagement so that your campaign can hit the ground running in the next phase of your launch. Use language that makes each donor feel special . Explain your motivation.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. To facilitate this journey, ensure your site is optimized for telling your organization’s story. Include elements of your nonprofit’s story on multiple strategic pages, including your donation page and about page.

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. They speak to supporters with authenticity and display your story in a way that easily grabs the viewer’s heart. There are many ways to tell your organization’s story without asking the people you serve to appear on camera.

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Video Giving Fundraising Script 98

EveryAction

MAY 4, 2016

You might be wondering: why isn't the main course all of the inspiring photos, incredible stories, and data-driven impact numbers that I'm putting front-and-center in my campaign? Main Course - Donation Page. Here comes the star of the meal: your campaign's donation page. For extra spice. Email series.

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Campaign Digital Nonprofit Social Media 106

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. Stories Worth Telling (The Meyer Foundation). This is definitely an “ask” worth making!

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. .

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Script Ethiopia Nonprofit Facebook 103

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It helps to write out the language you’ll use to help your tone and voice be consistent across your messages. It can help to start from a template so that all you have to do is drag and drop the language and design elements in. To make your multi-channel marketing efforts successful, it’s important to implement a campaign calendar.

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Channel Marketing Donation Giving 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology.

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Social Media Media Management Social 247

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By including them in the early phases of a giving day, they will feel invested in your strategy. If your goal is larger than what your team can process quickly, have a plan for promotional and stewardship language that is not dependent on announcing totals. This will help you create a giving day goal that is possible for your team.

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Giving Gift Demographics Donor 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton uses metaphors and stories to talk about evaluation in everyday language. When he approached updating the fourth edition of his book, he thought it would be just about updating the stories. He realized it when started to look at creation stories in different cultures. Gourma Creation Story.

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They can share their own personal story for why they’re involved in your organization, how their involvement has perhaps changed their life or their perspectives, and how we can really leverage their stories to help generate momentum and energy around the work that you’re doing. Why are we meeting the need? Why do you care?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact! Make sure there are just a few differences between the forms so you can accurately identify if any particular calls to action, images, or stories are making a difference.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

They are actively working in phases to continue to build out their system to improve processes to serve more clients. 50% of their families felt limited by language barriers. Creighton explains that the ability to turn your data into a visual representation is how you transform your numbers into stories with pictures.

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Service Data Organization Chicago 83

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They end up keeping the templated language and design on the page. This can go hand in hand with a countdown on social media, both in the newsfeed as well as utilizing the story features on Facebook and Instagram. Insert personal language around fundraising campaign link]”. Lean on your team captains.

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Goal Fundraising Help Africa 306

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories. Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." Just let us know what stories you're even starting to think of working on."

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

BB: Can you give an example or tell a success story of how Freecycle has created positive change? Because of that, that's enabled a lot of neat globally local community stories to develop of success. And there's tons of stories like that. Boy, it just took off from the get-go. I wanted to keep stuff out of the landfills.

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Interview Gift Network Netsquared 40

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate. not a jet.

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Roles Resource Develop Video 118

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Whatever you plan to use, test it before the fundraiser and double-check the language on the receipt/thank you to make sure it’s warm and friendly. During the planning phase, you should’ve created a list of tasks that you will need volunteers for. And think of the funny stories you’ll have to tell later! Credit cards?

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Fundraising Nonprofit Measure Goal 111

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And when we really understand and we match against the assets that we have as an organization and the funder lens, then when we’re outreaching to folks, we’re able to really speak their language, tap into that empathy and leverage our assets in a way that gets them interested and wanting to respond at a much, much, much higher rate. .

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Raise Video Map Fundraising 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

The stories are about missionary projects such as helping nuns care for the kids in the slums of Nairobi. This is storytelling with a purpose, each story ending with the option of taking action, share the story or donate. Health Information Support and Counseling. Here are two examples. Momconnect.

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South Africa Facebook Impact Africa 90

Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And when we really understand and we match against the assets that we have as an organization and the funder lens, then when we’re outreaching to folks, we’re able to really speak their language, tap into that empathy and leverage our assets in a way that gets them interested and wanting to respond at a much, much, much higher rate. .

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Raise Map Fundraising Money 70

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

In the meantime here is some language that Pamela Grow included in the Grow Report : “PS: If you’re using gmail to read The Grow Report, Gmail’s bizarre new interface is probably dumping me into your Promotions tab. This is the last phase of the project, which now includes all 54 countries of the African Union.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The Mayo Clinic has addressed in its social media policy – many nonprofits have borrowed their language. It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics. The messages or story is created, shared via intermediaries and consumed by a target audience that takes action.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I also use the five love languages, but we don’t have time for that today. And so I saw some pings this morning, so if you’re not looking on my Instagram stories to see what we’re doing on The Rooted Collaborative stories, you’re missing out. I think it’s important to be able to be used.

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Management Work Video Slides 87