Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? As charities, we tell stories all the time—it’s how we show our donors their money is making a difference! Find your story. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Of course you do!

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Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

Movie night An inexpensive and fun donor appreciation idea is to host a movie night for your supporters. Select a movie that will help create conversation about your mission while still being enjoyable for your donors. You can also add a craft activity for your donors to complete during the movie and take home as a memento.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A music festival, food festival, or cultural festival, to name a few, can bring people together in some of the best ways. . We decided to highlight some of the ways that festival planners can find success in the age of COVID-19 through some recent success stories while providing potential avenues for you to achieve positive results!

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Are you using video and movies to share your story? Are you combining still photos together with music or a voice over on MS Movie Maker ? Is it on YouTube or Vimeo ? Are you using Miro or Ustream or any other of the multitude of sites that allow you to share videos online?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2013

story-telling animation called: " She's the Solution." "If you think about it, a slideshow is the same as a movie reel," McClelland said. stages, setting it to music and using a format converter to turn the. PowerPoint file and accompanying music into a video. But he insists. professional to do it."

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Video-first platforms like YouTube have provided auto-captioning for quite some time now, while Tiktok launched it in April of this year and Instagram is testing functionality in Stories. What to do right now: Story Collection on Social Media. Closed captions are captions that are not on by default, but rather have to be toggled on.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

For example, a movie-themed event or a gaming night can bring together a diverse audience. Share compelling stories: Communicate your organization’s mission and impact through powerful storytelling during the event. Catering to different tastes ensures that your event appeals to a broad audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Finding Good Quality Music Sources Isn't Impossible. Trade Off: What value does music add?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. My dad was a conductor and composer, my mom his accompanist. Can’t think of any?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Videos should be clear to understand if employing dialogue or music. Music is great for enhancing the mood of a video and nonprofits and libraries interested in low-cost music licensing can check out Magnatune 's music library or Frog Music Licensing. Create Video Stories for Your Nonprofit in 6 Easy Steps.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! How about creating a virtual auction event themed around a type of collectible, like sports memorabilia or music memorabilia? Having the appropriate decoration, online branding, music, and food will be enough.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We all know that length is important; online audiences demand brief messaging, and the importance of story telling cannot be emphasized enough, a good story is necessary. Rhythm signals the story's meaning and the character's intentions at an immediate, physically recognizable level. We are experiencing life in the same rhythm.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2015

The Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bundle is ideal for organizations that want to quickly enhance photos and create movies to communicate their stories and their mission. Is It Right for My Organization?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

So in honor of Freaky Friday, here are 13 real supporter horror stories, none of which involve zombies. He wrote a sob-story email to the volunteer coordinator. (I I got the sob-story, too, and I agreed it was a good excuse.) On the plus side, they tell me about the coolest groups, and how they’re getting involved.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Holiday concert or movie night. From “Jingle Bells” to “The Latke Song” and “Elf” to “A Christmas Story,” there’s no shortage of holiday music and movies to listen to and watch. Bring your supporters together to indulge in a night of music and entertainment with a holiday concert or movie night.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Finally, I liked the story of Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Support Program in Ottawa, Canada. More Stories, Let's Add Yours. Send it to community@techsoup.org with "Community Story" in the subject line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I think of story telling, I think of books. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

According to Bramley there are three versions of a digital story: what you plan, what you capture, and what you edit and produce. The version of the story you edit and produce is most important version. The type of equipment you have available and choose to use affects each of these three story versions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Finally, I liked the story of Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Support Program in Ottawa, Canada. More Stories, Let's Add Yours. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Movie nights. Host a virtual peer-to-peer fundraiser movie night! First, have your peer-to-peer volunteers collect gifts from anyone they know that would want to attend a virtual movie night. Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it. It was a magical hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

These reports will add up all of a person’s related actions on Causes into a larger story of how they are helping your organization. The first is “self-expression,” which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even what you cook.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Short Story/Poetry Anthologies Many nonprofits will compile the stories or poetry of supporters and then turn that into an anthology that they can sell.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. In the nonprofit arts, administrators maintain a polite silence about the reality that certain artworks, plays, composers, and stories fall in and out of favor at different times.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

People are very aware of the rabid fandoms around various mainstream geek culture, things like Star Wars or Marvel movies for example. Now, there is a museum that tells that story and thousands of others on the National Mall. Often extreme fans of these media properties refuse to tolerate any serious critique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. See 3 Video Guide: This step-by-by video guide goes from the picture to the techniques of story telling and into editing and marketing. Video Guides for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

But this yearly music/film/interactive conference/festival/creative happening has risen to the top of must-gos for techy, arty, gamey folks. He focused mostly on his impression of the role of story in games, comparing the impact of film to that of games. The circuit in our brain that makes stories appealing to us is empathy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Video makes your story so much more alive and can enhance a nonprofit's telling of their story. How to make a video from stills and music and transition screens. Doing a movie from stills is great first project, less to worry about, more immediate gratification, and you don't need a video camera.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? But that's not the whole story. The Ancient Americas is a story of diversity and change--not progress. You could stop here and cast off O'Rourke. Times have changed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. This can include the history of the organization, testimonials, ways to access important documents or files held by the nonprofit, stories of impact, personalized swag, and a welcome letter, or more. Welcome packet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. He created a whole genre we now know as World Music. For example, our music, our movies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

9) Movie screenings. We’ve recently seen a slew of music award shows and individual musicians performing in hybrid concerts: the artist performs on a stage like normal, but to an empty venue, while that performance is streamed live to spectators at home. The current state of public gatherings has only accelerated this trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

Jotted down a story board (introduce each toy in collection) 3.) Use a video editing program (Windows Movie Maker because it was free and on my computer) 5.) need to learn how to: Cut and splice the movie clip to edit stuff I don't want or stitch together seperate clips. How I did it: 1.) I'm not happy with the aesthetics yet.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Music Lovers – For the music lovers at your silent auction, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, or gift certificates for music streaming platforms are all fantastic gift basket ideas. Bookworms will love the opportunity to find a new favorite story they can read on the go. Family-Friendly Auction Basket Ideas.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This is a great way to tell the story of your organization: how have these honorees upheld your mission and supported the work that you’re doing? Virtual Movie Night. If we’re doing anything during this time, it’s watching a lot of movies. Set up a virtual movie night with Netflix Party ! Virtual Climbathon/Hike.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

While this will ultimately depend on your unique organization, some good virtual volunteer ideas include: Making fundraising phone calls Conducting outreach on your behalf Sharing stories and testimonials with their own friends and family Social media promotion. BONUS – See this idea in action! BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It is a time of families gathering together, meals and music, and a moment to remember those less fortunate. It’s a wonderful slice of the American story which up until recently has been largely overlooked. It’s a night of huge bonfires, musical parades, and fireworks, which match the fourth of July in intensity.

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