Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these words: Your nonprofit’s logo is not your story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. Here’s where you can get stuck in focusing on your logo as representing your story: . Telling your whole story with your nonprofit’s logo is not necessary. It makes sense.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

This means investing in high-quality promotional photography is an absolute must for promoting your event. Give one of your event headliners or emcees the reins of your Instagram story for the day. Tag your account in a story. Here are a few more ways to leverage Instagram during your event: Add updates to your Instagram Story.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Create Custom Images for Your Website. Is your website in need of some fresh imagery? AI image generators can create custom images that are perfect for your website design. The truth is internet savvy users can now identify generic stock photos instantly, which kills their efficacy for grabbing attention and telling stories.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Once confirmed, welcome them with an email that tells your organization’s story and sets expectations on how often they’ll hear from you. Responses to website behavior. By tracking what pages your constituents pay attention to on your website, you can send emails targeted to their interests. Newsletters.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

We're humans; we like to be able to relate to the things around us, including the websites we visit, and the organizations we support. Consider using images of real people to help you tell your story; it's even better if the people are a part of your mission. How much does the size of the photo affect this? Need More Ideas?

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 3, 2021

The organization’s volunteer program consists of 200 volunteers per year who fill a variety of in-person and remote roles including coordinating adoptions, website development, photography, working in the shelter and food pantry, conducting community outreach, providing animal transportation, and much more.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Once confirmed, welcome them with an email that tells your organization’s story and sets expectations on how often they’ll hear from you. Responses to website behavior. By tracking what pages your constituents pay attention to on your website, you can send emails targeted to their interests. Newsletters.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. As you plan your next fundraising campaign, consider how you'll use stories as a central element of your messaging. How will you tell your story to create both authenticity and urgency? Tip 1: Create a Strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The ability to tell a story that captures the imagination of your donors and supporters and consequently inspires them to donate or get more involved is a skill only found in those who enjoy and excel at writing and who are committed to consistently improving their writing, grammar, and punctuation skills as well as increasing their vocabulary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If you have ideas for people we should interview, email the Arts and Healing Network team at ahn AT artheals DOT org. Full disclosure: The books I linked to are attached to my Amazon Associates account, which means that if you buy anything after clicking on the link, I receive a percentage of the sale.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Conduct research to determine your nonprofit’s story. These questions will help you understand the story that’s currently surrounding your nonprofit. Then, you can consider what’s different between that story and your ideal brand positioning. Let’s take a look at how you can do just that. Positioning.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#11ntc) is ramping up by kicking off the community voting website for over 400 nonprofit focused sessions! How to use social photography to drive donations, interest and action. Write A Powerful Story In 60 Minutes: The Hollywood Method. If you’re not familiar with the Nonprofit Tech.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study. Thursday, April 7.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Make-A-Wish is all about personal stories and experiences, which makes compelling content that people really want to know about, as well as being powerful to convert supporters to donors. They use YouTube videos to show the world these interesting stories, driving support for their nonprofit. truth: #BigTobaccoBeLike. Feeling inspired?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2017

You might also want to add a banner to your website that explains how it all works. Tell a Compelling Story. As humans, we are brought to action through stories. Stories resonate with our emotions, far more than the latest facts and figures ever will. Images are engaging and will help to bring the website to life.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. The result of those meetings and brainstorming sessions recently manifested itself in our Forum Gallery as an experimental photography project called Oh Snap! Your Take on Our Photographs. At its core, Oh Snap!

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Care2

JUNE 9, 2011

For me it’s always personal stories or experiences someone shares with me, like when Stacey Monk, co-founder of Epic Change told me what inspired her to quit her corporate day job, travel to Africa, and start Epic Change after her world came crashing down when her brother died of an overdose.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Bad pictures are used way too often by nonprofit folks who are trying to tell a story in a visual format. Great photos tell a story. To tell a story, you need some detail and some interesting action in the photo. Tags: General Fundraising nonprofit photography. Here are a few points I want to share with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Imagining Supporters with User Stories. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. What websites and blogs do they read? Here are three ways to get a clearer sense of your audience. Write a short profile of a few of your target audience members. How old are they?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2018

Logic and healthcare trends have revealed that healthcare communications should rely more on patient stories, and use the patient’s voice to communicate more effectively. They are expected to churn out brochures and website copy. Or, just as frustrating, disagreement on how stories are told. Collaborative Execution.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Photos: Jim Vetter photography. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family. After all, social media is a space for sharing stories, making charitable giving fun or even “cool,” and for making giving a little bit competitive through prize grant incentives.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Many organizations also invest significant effort to make it easy – even fun – for participants to find their local event (a precursor to entering in the registration process in our study), employing stunning light boxes and well-presented maps to guide participants.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Many donors who receive a letter will go to your website to make their gift. Start with a story to draw your readers in. Use a sad story that transforms into a happy one. Don’t use a lot of photography and fancy layout in your letter or accompanying materials. Use stories in your copy but only one story.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment. The more we showcase real people of all kinds in our photography, the more engaged our audiences will be in the content we create, and the more inclusive our culture will become.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Josh: Its 100% the Power of One website. This was very different from the typical nonprofit websites that I’ve worked on. On top of the fact that more than 40% of our website visits are on a mobile or tablet device, many of our stakeholders look at our stuff on the go. Josh: Collecting good photography.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Russell’s role in projects ranges from new business development to content strategy to photography and video creation. . The good news is everyone wants to be involved with sharing your nonprofit’s story, from the board to the executive director to the staff. Lack of Direction. Too Many Experts.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

How To Identify and Build Your Nonprofit’s Story in 5 Steps. Because of that, after we cover how to write your nonprofit’s story from start to finish, we’ll discuss a few tips to keep in mind when sharing that story via digital marketing. That’s where your nonprofit’s story comes into play. Let’s get started.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And you can check us out, go to our website, learn about us if you’re interested in that. We help you all tell your story to the masses and raise more funds faster. That’s kind of a part of my story. However, my story didn’t end there, and I want to kind of quickly tell you what happened next.

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NetWits

MAY 10, 2012

Part two of our four part series on Effective Nonprofit Websites. Make sure to read part one if you missed it: Create a More Effective Nonprofit Website Using These 2 Simple Suggestions. Users form an opinion of a website within the first few seconds of loading it.” Makes sense, right? Engage with eye contact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out these 10 examples of excellent nonprofit’s websites for tips on how to improve your own. Your website is the centre of your nonprofits online presence. Your nonprofit’s website is essential to the success of your nonprofit so it has to be it’s as effective and appealing as possible. by Olivia Warnes.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

Communicating your results in a professional way will remind readers of your unique story, and of your dedication to being results-driven. A theme helps to unite the goals and purpose of the campaign with the organization’s overarching story and mission. What’s the story that connects this one campaign to who we are as a charity?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Website visitors only need 50 milliseconds to form an opinion about your website. Visual appeal is the most important aspect of how visitors assess your website upon their first visit. That’s why you must choose your nonprofit website’s images carefully. Reflect diversity. Set quality standards. Leverage A/B testing.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Invest in High-Quality Photography. You can use stock photography if done correctly. Careful image selection will help you to tell your story in a way that leaves a lasting impression. to your organization, here are 6 questions for assessing your nonprofit logo. Use a Branding Library to Build a Strong Brand.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Now that you’ve identified your top picks, go to their websites and ask for demos. Throughout the drive, you can share information about matching gifts using communication platforms like social media, email, and your website to spread awareness of these programs. Social media.

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