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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

Storytelling has become a hot topic in non-profit fundraising. There’s a reason for this change: storytelling is extremely important to good fundraising. Two Types of Non-Profit Storytelling. In my experience, when we talk about “storytelling” in non-profit fundraising, we’re talking about one of two separate things.

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Non-Profit Storytelling: What If There Is No Conflict?

The Storytelling Non-profit

This is where your storytelling work boils down to effective messaging. For example, let’s say you’re a local children’s theater company. The question that I like to ask to frame a conflict is – what would it be like if this program/service/organization didn’t exist? appeared first on The Storytelling Non-Profit.

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The Storytelling Framework That Will Inspire Your Nonprofit Supporters To Take Action

Kindful

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. This storytelling framework asks you to answer three basic questions: Story of Self: Why have you been called to serve?

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Answers to the Top 13 Questions Nonprofits Have About Giving Tuesday

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To help you capitalize on the start of the biggest donation season of the year, Classy.org is answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. After all, strong storytelling can help build meaningful connections with your audience and even move them to rally around your cause.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It requires more effort and research to plan your own itinerary, find local experiences, and connect with the culture. You’re not following a set path; you’re creating your own unique memories, meeting locals, and forming meaningful connections. Show real humans talking to the camera through videos and storytelling.

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Giving Tuesday 2021: Your Top Questions, Answered

Classy

To help you capitalize on the biggest donation day of the year, we’re answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. After all, strong storytelling can help build meaningful connections with your audience and even move them to rally around your cause. See Fundraising With Classy in Action.

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10 Engaging Content Ideas for your next non-profit Newsletter

The Storytelling Non-profit

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.