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Weaving Empathy into Action: The Crucial Role of Storytelling for Nonprofits

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3) Higher Fundraising Success: A Stanford Social Innovation Review study found that nonprofits that tell engaging stories raise twice as much money on average as those that don’t. 6) Improved Email Response Rates: Nonprofits using storytelling in their email campaigns experience better response rates.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

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By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. In fact, it is not uncommon for social media to play a minor part in a campaign rather than being a key player. Social media makes participating in campaigns easy and fun.

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Benchmarks 2024 — the Food Bank Edition

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Since that initial spike, we’ve seen revenue decline over the last few years, but the work of food banks has never been more vital — in fact, the rate of people experiencing hunger in the United States is at an all-time high. The food banks we work with have seen great success building momentum around an equipment campaign.

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Measuring World Hunger Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. As the lead social strategist for the World Hunger Relief Project a social fundraising giving day on World Food Day this October 16 , I was given two goals: Encourage 10,000 people to raise $200,000. We aim to encourage this type of activity.

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

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In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. Kids who are eating regular, nutritious meals are performing better in school, are engaging in more social activities, and making more friends. If you’re raising funds for equipment, supplies, vehicles, etc.,

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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

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Time was of the essence, as they had an annual event and email and social media campaigns that needed both the website and donation platform in place to succeed. So, they shifted their fundraising efforts to focus on Hunger Action Month and their “Stand in the Gap End-of-Year Match Appeal.”. Hunger Action Month. The Solution.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should You Celebrate Your Nonprofit’s Anniversary?

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It will raise awareness. Is your goal to raise awareness, or is that the tip of the iceberg? Is reminding folks you haven’t solved hunger, homelessness, or poverty a good thing? To raise awareness about the enduring need – and the fact the collective fight continues. People are not going to give merely because you exist.