Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Stories are much more powerful and motivating than merely using statistics or discussing administrative goals. Telling stories prevents your beneficiaries from being just another statistic. Nonprofit storytelling is effective for increasing funding and engagement for several reasons. It connects with the emotions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A student at Ochoa Elementary in Tucson proudly displays her bounty of carrots after harvest day. They devised “kid-friendly” survey instruments, including a “Fun Food Bingo” game, to determine if students are eating the vegetables they grow and are learning about nutrition. Photo by Nick Henry).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Or as Michael Rosen, CFRE says: “While statistics can be interesting and even compelling at times, people are more likely to be moved by stories. When we do fundraising… we should use few statistics and tell more stories.”. Mai-Lan provided their volunteer student leaders a toolkit with everything they needed for a success.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

One of the more chilling innovations in marketing over the past few years is called “predictive analytics” It’s this blend of statistical analysis, data mining and psychology which enabled Target to conclude that a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

Statistically, individual donors provide 72% of the funds for nonprofits!” This 72% statistic—or 85%, depending on the source—is for all nonprofits in general. Several parents of students in the after-school program that I used to run asked me if I had a “real” job in addition to my much-appreciated “volun- teering.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” So we know statistically that having a written strategic plan doubles our chances for success and that 70% of businesses that last past that 15-year-old mark have a strategic plan. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. 0001 pounds.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Thanks to support from people like you, we are able to walk this exciting path with our students, teaching them how to make their college and career dreams come true and helping them create a map so they won’t feel lost. . The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce. We could not be more proud!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Yes, we’re interested in workforce development, but we’re not interested in offering students scholarships,” for example. There are so many statistics out there about what percentage of people are on social media, how many hours they spend on social media a day. Now, co-planning a program. So moving on, social media.

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