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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits: A Detailed Guide

Neon CRM

Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work. Ethical storytelling for nonprofits produces stories that not only help nonprofits share their work and inspire donors but also honor the dignity of those the story is about. What is Nonprofit Storytelling? Stories are powerful.

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Why Volunteers Make Amazing Donors

The Fundraising Authority

Storytelling is one of the most challenging aspects of donor cultivation. By reaching out to volunteers you can bypass much of the storytelling and advertising expense, which is traditionally required. Volunteers offer the perfect opportunity to put this theory to the test. Why not ask them to also give financially?

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Elevate Your Fundraising Game with These Essential Nonprofit Books

Pamela Grow

It’s part graphic design, part design-thinking, part storytelling, part strategic thinking and part love note to you amazing humans who work so hard for your causes, your donors, your mission, and your desire to contribute and make positive change in our world.” It’s a book you’ll be referring to every day.

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How to Overcome Meddling Nonprofit Management and Boards

Bloomerang

replacing all of the immersive storytelling with a litany of the organization’s accomplishments. . If you have a boss who thinks they can do a better job rewriting your appeal, do a split A/B test to see whose appeal performs best. A few months ago, I referred the Executive Director of a nonprofit to a consultant.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

Every once in a while though, we stumble across a resource or reference from inside our very own wheelhouse. . The people who are part of a specific community are the experts in that field, and they should be part of the creative process, not just used to “run ideas by,” or as focus groups when we conduct user-testing.

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6 Website Elements to Include to Drive Year-Round Donations

Greater Giving

Use A/B testing to determine which images are most effective for engaging visitors. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. When deciding what images to include in your nonprofit’s website, think about what will showcase your mission most effectively.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session lead us through the design thinking process which includes: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. We voted on what thought might be the most productive to prototype and test related to “letting go and allowing for emergence.” That is not design thinking. Next thing we know, this happened. Normalize the hump.

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