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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Plus, a bunch of theory and stats are not a story — that’s a report. It’s boring to the donor and doesn’t inspire them to give.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Act 2: Selecting An Analytics Tool There are a number of web analytics software tools available ranging from simple web counters, web hosting stat tools and more powerful (and expensive) software packages. I also keep fairly good track of the languages of visitors of our site.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

So it has to be an annual report that includes stats, that includes a list of their donors, the grants that they’ve received, thanking the funder for this amount of money helping them in this year, I’ve seen annual reports with that. What’s your body language? And so I’ll do like a script with them.

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