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

Get Fully Funded

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. Once you understand these five elements, you’ll be able to pick them out in TV shows, movies, books, and news articles. Look at her eyes.

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How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Movie Production Studio In 6 Easy Steps

Global Giving

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Of course you do!

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40+ Ideas to Light a Fundraising Fire Under Your Nonprofit Board Members

Blue Fox

40+ Ways Empower Your Board Members for Fundraising Season Inform Hold a fundraising season kick-off dinner Give board members the option to give rather than fundraise Share 2021 Giving Tuesday Stats Stay in touch on fundraising goals and progress Share: How Nonprofits Build Donor Trust – Be Transparent Train on new fundraising software (like (..)

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Nonprofit Video: How Rhythm Keeps Us Watching

NTEN

Why do some online videos grab us, pull us in and capture our imagination for the few minutes that we watch them? What is it that separates the good videos from the truly great videos? Music can, of course, be a powerful tool for driving the rhythm of a video. By Cam Hayduk and Kat Kelly, Turtlebox Productions.

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important. Steve played it the software and created this video). No rehearsal either.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 13 Now Available

Tech Soup

Both programs are lighter editions of Photoshop, Adobe's popular photo-editing application, and Premiere Pro, its robust video-editing application. 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.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a video of the camera kits. I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it. I should do that more often.