Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Pinterest users are looking for ideas and inspiration. Learn from these 15 Pinterest superusers.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Awards honor the achievements of the “Creative Davids” or smaller companies who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the world of nonprofit fundraising, stories are more than just words on a page or images on a screen; they are the beating heart of your mission. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures. They have the power to inspire, engage, and ignite action in ways that data and statistics alone cannot.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. In this image, runners’ legs are tied with pink ribbon to symbolize support for a cause.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Ever wanted to discover the art of transmedia? Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. Image: Chrispine Ochieng Okumu. Don’t be shy - come join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Last month, I had the honor of keynoting the Social Good Brasil Conference and one of the other keynote speakers was Peter Sims, author of “ Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries.” How did you come up with the idea for this board? Then an agency approached us with the core idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. charity: water has truly mastered the art of getting people to form personal connections with their brand. Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof. Harness the Power of Storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Engage your donors through storytelling by sharing how you are utilizing their money. Capitalize on this by using images to tell your story and evoke the donors’ emotions. Whether you host a gala, informal dinner, drop-in, auction, golf tournament, race, etc. donation cards are an effective, easily distributed piece of collateral.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. We rigged up a video recording booth in Fashionbuddha’s studios.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Creative Storytelling and Diversity: Normalizing the Human Experience Through Increased Representation. Storytelling is a powerful tool. Creative storytelling isn’t just about who we include, it is also about HOW we include those people. This article features commentary about how we can best represent disability in the arts.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

There are no sure things when it comes to fundraising and I can’t help you with the perseverance part, but there are a few unique ideas and tips, some incorporating more traditional fundraising tactics, that can help you get attention and spread the word about your campaign. #1: Here are a few ideas built around fairly popular missions.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

But that was only the beginning… From major keynotes and Big Idea Sessions to deep-dive learn labs and new product announcements, it’s safe to say that the first day of #bbcon did not disappoint. Learn Lab is taking me to the next level of Mastering the Art of the Ask with Targeted Solicitations in Raiser’s Edge.

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Allegiance Group

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tell Stories that Make You Stand Out from the Crowd In episode 3 of “Year-End in July,” we discuss the power of storytelling in fundraising. Creative storytelling practices can help you rise above the rest, especially when you can go beyond merely telling donors what you do and how you do it. Also, lead with mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. One thing lead to another and I directed him to the WeAreMedia project because the idea is that the conversation can become more than a brainstorming session or list of resources.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Because of this, the images we consume are not an accurate depiction of reality. Marketing images in pop culture—like TV shows, movies, music groups, clothing, and even cartoons—tend to include primarily white people as the focus. Underrepresented, marginalized groups of people are most often excluded from the images we see.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. But not every piece of every project has to be capital-A Art — often, craft is what is needed. This is my home.

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 30, 2022

Images are powerful because they can communicate what words cannot. If you need tips for creating compelling graphic designs to make your organization’s storytelling professional, poised, and poignant, keep reading! Are you going the more traditional route, with stock images and business-style infographics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I want to do a better job of connecting people in my network to one another, the art of network weaving and building social capital. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret. Please put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard. Within five weeks, he had 100 postcards on display at Art-o-Matic. The emails pour in: “I will.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. Each will make positive or negative impressions on a reader about the nonprofit, the person who wrote the material, and the concept or ideas expressed in the material. Case Study: The lost art of writing. Handwriting feels foreign to most of us.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

If you have a fantastical idea that you want to show, executing through illustration gives you the ability to do so. There are some things that you can’t capture through photography because a specific image doesn’t fit or it simply does not exist. The art direction requires a specific look and feel. Ida Persson 2021) .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

With more than 250 million blogs in existence and countless online news outlets worldwide, your new media manager must excel at writing and have the ability to expand their storytelling, marketing, and fundraising content beyond traditional blog writing. Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you’ve conducted a capital campaign or you’ve researched a campaign for one that’s on the horizon for your organization, you’re well aware that a capital campaign is a balance of, you know, it’s an art and a science to ensure its success. . And I’ve shared images of two recent projects. .

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

We used storytelling to engage people and motivate them to take action. Some people even repost them or use them as their profile image. Storytelling has always proven to be a great engagement tool. Ive had hundreds of people write sunny and say they had no idea this was going on, and they would do x y and z.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. Emotions have always had an appropriate place in storytelling for fundraising, we give because we are empathetic beings.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. does it rely on graphics/images? What about the idea that e-newsletters are "dead"? For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Marcy Heim, The Artful Asker. Hitting It Out of the Park—Learn the Art of Major Gift Relationship Building. Marcy Heim, Founder and Principal of the Artful Asker, LLC, will share fundraising best practices for nonprofits. Create a mindset for success and learn the art of a major gift relationship building. ”; 3.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To do this, we found a top-of-the-line event platform, developed video assets to aid in the event’s storytelling, and even sent virtual attendees meals from local caterers. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 Endowed by Dr. Ruth J. appeared first on Forum One.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To do this, we found a top-of-the-line event platform, developed video assets to aid in the event’s storytelling, and even sent virtual attendees meals from local caterers. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 Endowed by Dr. Ruth J. appeared first on Forum One.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. Check out this site for some creative ideas. In order to ask for donations via direct mail, you’ll need to get familiar with the art of writing letters. Looking for inspiration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

There is so much more to photosharing than uploading images from the latest event! Yes, everyone likes to see themselves online, but Flickr is so much more than uploading images from the latest event. Flickr combines the power of visual storytelling with the very nature of a social network - engagement and conversation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. Checklists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Share As Image :: shareasimage.com. Share As Image allows you to select any text on the Web and pin it as a quote on Pinterest. Vine :: vine.co.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Video-sharing platform Wide reach Monetization options Storytelling through videos Resource intensive Competition for viewership Limited interaction compared to other platforms User base : 755 million monthly active users Best for: Nonprofits targeting younger audiences, particularly those focused on creative expression and social causes.

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