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APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping. That sounds amazing.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 20, 2021

Sounds very spiritual doesn’t it? Get your Board (big b) together and a brainstorming board (little b) together and write down all the keywords that come to mind. Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Jane Goodall Institute: Storytelling on Facebook and beyond with square videos. However, storytelling isn’t enough. It should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Keep that in mind! For example: 1. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And as soon as I started listening to it, it was so visual and so powerful that I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to try to illuminate her narrative with some ambient sound, as we call it. 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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Finally, schedule a time (while you’re still in the values frame of mind) to conduct a similar group exercise (write on a whiteboard or easel). It sounds scary, but not if you approach it with the playfulness and lightheartedness of a child. Take the time, first, to clarify your own values. Then ask others on your team to do the same.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Make your emails are unique and effective with these email storytelling tips. The Power Of Storytelling For Fundraising. The most powerful tool you have to build a connection with prospective donors is storytelling. Learn how you can use storytelling to help you fundraise.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

At bbcon 2015, some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions. Instead the stories we produce end up sounding like every other run of the mill non-profit story. The problem with this model of storytelling is that we fail to form a meaningful connection with our audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You want your letter to sound sincere, not like a form letter. It should not sound like it’s coming from some corporation. And a confused mind tunes out quickly. A brief story about your organization’s work: Storytelling is effective in so many nonprofit communications, and the thank you letter is no exception.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When you're building a movement, video is an indispensable storytelling tool. Creating a video with social media in mind (while also growing your social media audience organically) is a great way to grow your base and reach more supporters. I noticed that in your videos, music helps progress the storytelling. Sound inspires me.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. With these considerations in mind, let’s go over some dos and don’ts when analyzing employee engagement and implementing ideas. Lack of resources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

It’s common knowledge today that storytelling is among the most effective ways to connect with an audience and deliver content in a way that’s catchy, resonant, and memorable. But what does storytelling mean in practice? The post Truly Compelling Cases for Support: 5 Storytelling Tips appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

She captures struggles and microaggressions that immigrants and people of color face in a way that I have never been exposed to as a white person, and in a way that seamlessly exists in her storytelling. Aside from all I feel that I learned from her writing, the storyline is irresistible and I could not put the book down!

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ethical storytelling: It is not just about telling the right stories, but also telling the stories the right way. . This all sounds great, in theory. In the AIGA article, Michael Yuasa, founding designer at Antarctic, mentions how “Putting the donor first plays out in all visual communication.”

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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. They can sound like the same language. Negativity can eventually colonize your mind, and like a virus, just feed itself. They’re well-worn paths are where your mind, if not trained, will take you.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sounds like you? Information Sharing and Storytelling. If your CSR programs are not integrated across lines of business and support departments, keep in mind this is a journey. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform. While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

Keep in mind that cause marketing strategies need to be delivered in a way that feels authentic, and that it is true to your brand voice and principles. Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees. Don’t wait until it is too late.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A particular benefit of videos for nonprofits is that, unlike the written word, or even still photographs, video uses moving imagery and sound to convey a message that in text often appears dry and disassociated from the viewer. The figure is expected to rise to 54% by 2016, at which time video-on-demand traffic will have tripled.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

Creating these guidelines will help ensure your content sounds the same across all avenues. This can help set the tone, style, and best practices for writing (capitalization of certain words, the oxford comma, etc.). Depending on what your nonprofit does, you may be writing fun and upbeat content or more serious content about dire needs.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But it’s not as easy as it sounds. By keeping the needs of the nonprofit website visitor in mind, you can give them content they’re interested in, move them to where you’d like them to go, and ultimately, get more donations. And we all want more donors, right? The challenge is grabbing your visitor’s attention.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

Keep in mind that cause marketing strategies need to be delivered in a way that feels authentic, and that it is true to your brand voice and principles. Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees. Don’t wait until it is too late.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

But each tactic is rooted in a single overarching strategy: Writing with your donors in your mind. When you write a fundraising email, start with your donors in mind. This will make you a more effective storyteller, help you create stronger CTAs, and make it more likely that you’ll hit your fundraising goals.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

With that in mind, it couldn't hurt to try to re-invent email, to freshen the experience for ourselves and our emails' recipients, right? It sounds like a resource ideal for campaigns with a celebrity spokesperson -- like Mia Hamm -- to provide "face time" via email.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Once you feel the spark, over and over, you'll know what I mean. There must be a balance between your mission and your messaging. Let’s do it.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

I’ll go over some simple tips to keep in mind for creating high-performing videos for Facebook. Storytelling in a sound-off world. And as such, most of them are watching their videos with sound-off. Due to the muted, auto-playing nature of Facebook videos (and nearly all social networks), videos must work with sound off.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. It will give you some why to go along with the what.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As iPhone video technology advances in quality, it’s certainly possible to make a great video with your iPhone — but keep in mind that this should be done with care if this is the tool you have to use. Optimize your content: Keeping your goal in mind, write out your ideas and think of the story you’d like to tell. Use subtitles.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Event offered an interesting example of a great tweet in that the campaign kicked off with a question posed on Twitter that gave followers an opportunity to share information and resources, opening up an engaging conversation on the topic of using video for nonprofits and libraries.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

It was a surround-sound approach to make sure that all the messaging was consistent, but tailored to meet the interests and needs of our varying audiences. There are people living amongst us who are globally minded and constantly thinking about those people living in those kinds of situations. Michele Lunsford, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

How to make the transitions smoother without that annoying burp sound or without it abrupting stopping midstream. I put the clip into another project, turned off the sound, saved it as AVI and brought into the original project.) lighting, sound, framing, etc.? Record good sound (this is the basis of your viewer???s

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As strange as it sounds, Facebook is a very personal space. Believe it or not, “he cares deeply about the laundry soap he uses” simply isn’t a story I want to come to mind when my friends think about me. Nonprofits have the benefit of meaningful storytelling. The Advantage. Caring runs deep! Expert or not, these are a must.

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