NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

All of us all NTEN are amazed (but not too surprised, really) by the degree of engagement at the 14LCS, and by the movement of individual ideas into actionable projects during the Idea Accelerator. We''re grateful for the articles, blog posts, videos, photos, and more from the 14LCS community.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

In addition to the info-packed sessions and workshops, these conferences provide invaluable opportunities to connect with other fundraisers, share ideas, and encourage each other. . You’ll leave every session you attend with handouts, examples, and ideas bouncing around in your head. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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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 users are looking for ideas and inspiration. I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

There, we see hearts, bodies, and minds coming to life through improvisation and the creative arts. This is a powerful idea. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable. Honorable Mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I’m here with our Art Director, Devyn Taylor. The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. This article references the book The Politics of Design.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Selecting photos for your brand in a deliberate and thoughtful way makes your organization more inclusive. Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment. It also has the power to make our culture more equitable for everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water has truly mastered the art of getting people to form personal connections with their brand. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Harness the Power of Storytelling. After all, the people on the charity: water team are masters at storytelling. Harrison has over 61.5k

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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. Photos are fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Engage your donors through storytelling by sharing how you are utilizing their money. Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to help your donors develop drive and energy to support your cause. Whether you host a gala, informal dinner, drop-in, auction, golf tournament, race, etc.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

After catching up on our email and our sleep post-2012 NTC, we started reading blog posts from attendees and speakers, and we've been amazed by the insights and ideas you all took away from the conference this year! Nonprofit storytelling tips from the pros , Debra Askanase. Socialbrite strategists' sessions at NTC , JD Lasica.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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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. Photos are fun.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits, schools, churches, and many other organizations were forced to get creative to come up with fundraising ideas during COVID. Virtual fundraising is here to stay, so if you need some COVID-friendly fundraising ideas, check our complete list out! Basic COVID-Friendly Fundraising Ideas. Online fundraisers. Read-a-thon.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. Pinterest is a content sharing service that allows users to virtually “pin” photos, videos and other content onto virtual “boards.” Still looking for ideas? If Instagram, then Dropbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Here are 6 ideas to get you started: 1. Start with an accounting of what video and photo assets you already have, and see how they can be put to work for your year-end plans. Remember that your fundraising story is a narrative, so put the ancient art of storytelling to work for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Photo: Jim Harrison. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry. It’s really about having a great idea and being a good community organizer.” Here's my analysis.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

You’re certainly welcome to get creative but to get you started, here’s 14 ideas for Thanksgiving messages to donors this year: 1. You can use this opportunity to ask them for a photo and a personal testimonial that you can publish. Some other ideas that work include framed photos, custom printed coffee mugs, or totes.

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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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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

It’s part art and part science. There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Pick your strongest idea and run with it! Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Embed your photos in the email.

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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. How can we ensure truly revolutionary, “punk rock” ideas get found, selected & funded? On the power of individual storytelling & fun. Generic license ). starts around 7:01).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. Photo by RedRaspus. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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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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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. Photo Essays. Summarize Research Reports and Studies.

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Media Cause

MAY 23, 2022

As a designer and illustrator, I’m constantly weighing the pros and cons of using photos or illustrations. If you have a fantastical idea that you want to show, executing through illustration gives you the ability to do so. The art direction requires a specific look and feel. Staged stock photos feel ??disingenuous

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

How many photos were submitted? We got about 50 photos, many were from one person who had compiled them from all the protests that have gone on. We used about 15 photos from different people. We used storytelling to engage people and motivate them to take action. How did you go about building up the friends network?

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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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Neon CRM

AUGUST 4, 2023

Nonprofits aiming to leverage the power of visual storytelling and share impactful videos TikTok is a short-form video platform known for its viral trends, challenges, and creative content. Nonprofits with visually appealing content, such as art, design, or DIY projects A photo and video sharing platform focused on visual storytelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2024, postcards with QR codes designed to make an impact (LOL funny, powerful quotes, beautiful art, photography, etc.) Social media started as a community building and storytelling tool, then evolved into hyper-focused marketing and advertising tool, and will now will revolve back to its roots.

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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. Within five weeks, he had 100 postcards on display at Art-o-Matic. What makes this such a great community art project? Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.

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