The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Video Making for Nonprofits. Video is a powerful way to tell a story and meaningfully get a message across to supporters. Making a video can take a lot of time and effort, so it’s important to do it right! Read on for some tips on how to structure your video-making strategy.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To get the attention of your donors and increase their engagement, you can make your impact report come to life. By knowing your audience, telling the right stories, and using digital tools, you can revolutionize your reports, inspiring stronger connections and future giving.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. Videos show as well as tell. They speak to supporters with authenticity and display your story in a way that easily grabs the viewer’s heart. In short, videos make an impression.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 4, 2021

Watch this video chat with Kalley Dunn, Director of Strategic Initiatives for the American Fundraising Foundation ( AmFund ), where she gives us some quick tips on how to gain the media’s attention… and one very common mistake! The post How to Get the Media’s Attention appeared first on Top Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2023

However, not all social media content can grab your audience’s attention this effectively, especially with all the changes happening in the social media world. Make your captions original and engaging to capture people’s attention. Giving Tuesday campaigns require planning, effort, and lots of attention!

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Candid

MARCH 22, 2022

So many things are competing for your supporters’ (and potential supporters’) attention, from the latest meme to their endless email queue—how can you capture their interest amidst all that noise? The answer: tell an engaging story. In the video below, find four tips to do just that.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When you add a cinematic touch via video to that message, it becomes the most effective method to draw in viewers and spread the word about the work than any other available option. People love watching videos! Video has an unbelievable advantage over other forms of messaging. The Brand Story. The Awareness Video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To captivate your audience and make a lasting impression, follow these tips: Tell Your Story : Your nonprofit has a unique story to tell, and it’s essential to share it authentically. Personal stories from beneficiaries or volunteers can be particularly effective in conveying your organization’s message.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2023

3 Top Nonprofit Storytelling Strategies Well-crafted nonprofit stories will help you engage with your audience and inspire them to take further action. These stories also lend authenticity and credibility to your nonprofit, as it shows the direct connection between your values and actions. Incorporate authentic and personal stories.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2023

Nonprofit video stories captivate the hearts and minds of your donors, helping to drive meaningful results that support your cause. However, recent studies have shown that, due to increasingly shorter attention spans, audiences are more likely to engage with shorter, episodic videos, as opposed to one long piece of content.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

You want to draw attention to the great work you’re doing (since it’s such a key part of remaining socially and economically sustainable). Packing all of your organization’s efforts into a thoughtful, easy-to-digest story can be remarkably challenging. Increasingly, Nonprofits are Turning to Video for Storytelling.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tell Your Story The thing that makes donors give isn’t how flashy your video is or how clever your emails are, it’s the story you tell. GivingTuesday is a chance to tell the story of the work you’re doing and the impact it makes. Make that story the center of every message you send. You’ve got this.

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CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2022

Filmmaker and storytelling expert, Rain Bennett, will walk you through how to utilize the power of storytelling via video as a key marketing technique to help hook your audience fast, while keeping them engaged for the long haul. About your Speaker. Rain Bennett, Filmmaker, Writer, Storytelling Coach.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Communicating your nonprofit’s message through video on Facebook will maximize your reach more than any other form of content and help you reach the people that are passionate about your cause. We now live in a video-first world, in large part due to Mark Zuckerberg. And as such, most of them are watching their videos with sound-off.

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Candid

AUGUST 21, 2024

That’s the average time viewers will spend on a social media video before they decide to move on. Many have pointed to social media as the cause of our shorter attention spans, although movie and television shots have also become shorter. Most recently, we started a longer experiment on Instagram Stories in microlearning.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Almost all media now feature feel-good stories about people and organizations that do good. Even so, getting attention from the shrinking, but highly diversified, press pool still takes persistence and creativity. Here are 6 steps to get the press to tell your story: 1. Tell a riveting story. Start small.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. Crank it up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

For most of these users, it’s Instagram Stories. . In just one year, the daily user count for Instagram Stories jumped from 400 million (June 2018) to 500 million. That means that more than half of Instagram’s 1 billion users look at and consume Instagram Stories – EVERY DAY! . Here are 6 ways. . Well, it depends!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And in order to tell stories effectively you need to understand who your audience is. Segmentation through demographics like age, location and interests are also helpful ways to understand your donors and create stories that will resonate with the different types of target audiences. or “What would you want the world to know?”

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. And how do you tell a good story? Stories are interactive, bonding. Shared stories can tie whole cultures and groups together. Shared stories bind all sorts of people, from families to religious groups.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If you’ve done all the work to compile compelling stories, gather impressive statistics, and produce a visually engaging digital report, then why only use that report once? Highlight compelling data points or success stories to inspire action, whether donating or getting involved with your organization.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 20, 2024

While tools like Linktree are popular, Instagram has introduced native link stickers and expanded options for linking content directly within Stories. Prioritize Video Content: Reels and Stories Lead Engagement Video content on Instagram, especially Reels and Stories, generates significantly more engagement than static images.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! What Makes a Good Story? What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2015

It’s a unique format that gets attention, and it can be shared on a variety of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Chogger lets you create one-of-a-kind comic strips in a short-story format filled with your own photos that are easy to customize. Never underestimate the power of being playful with your message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Note from Beth: Is Facebook Live or posting videos part of your nonprofit’s strategy for 2018? Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Video is a medium uniquely suited to do just that.”.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 23, 2019

Types Of Video Content. To put it another way, using actual writing to share your nonprofit’s story and its mission with your audience is falling out of style. Because of that, businesses, brands and nonprofits alike need to turn their attention to that which is lurking just over the horizon – a video marketing strategy.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s dive into the art of creating compelling stories that resonate and inspire action. The Power of Nonprofit Storytelling In a world inundated with information, your nonprofit’s story is what sets you apart. Know Your Audience Before penning down your story, it’s imperative to understand your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. Keep the momentum going with these creative donor engagement ideas you can apply to your 2021 fundraising strategy: 1) Get personal with gratitude via thank-you videos. Not to worry.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Maybe think about making a switch or, if you’re just curious about what we have going on, visit our website, all kinds of videos you can watch, kind of get a sense of what we’re all about. That Zoom briefing of where your organization is at becomes a video. . People like pictures, video over words.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

Even though you won’t be networking in person, with online fundraising tools, you can still share success stories, celebrate your donors, energize your audience, and stay on brand the same way you would at an event that’d cost big bucks to put on. The best thing about incorporating video in your strategy is that no special skills are needed.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when we talk about people loving people, there are three things that I would like to draw your attention to. Are we giving our donors the same attention as we are giving the people we ask them to love? And they are telling the stories about so much suffering. And they told the story to the 400 people who gave 25 years ago.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2013

Feel confident being able to effect change in your organization with video. These 5 tips from Atomic Training can help you get on your way to producing effective videos. 1) Plan ahead: Coming up with an engaging video from being to end might be a bit overwhelming - planning ahead can save you a lot of time in the end.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

TIP 10: Consider creating activities that engage people’s passions : Cool memes or videos they’ll want to share with their networks; surveys; online quizzes; petitions and advocacy initiatives; conference calls; networking events, volunteer activities and more. Even adding impact stories to your newsletter is not enough.

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

Phone Calling legislators can be a very effective way of bringing their attention to an issue or cause, and flooding phone lines with thousands of concerned constituent calls means you become essentially impossible to ignore. Visual and auditory elements make a story stronger by engaging the senses.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When you're building a movement, video is an indispensable storytelling tool. By appealing to a wide range of our senses, videos capture our attention and activate our emotions, unlike any other medium. The original DIY video platform, YouTube, is now the world's second largest social network and search engine.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

An eye-catching opening, slick text animation, smooth transitions — these are all important elements of polished social videos. But what really makes a story shine is a strong, concise message, told in a way only your unique perspective and voice can. A few strong pieces of copy can help your video shine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, the “Reusable Goods Collection” from Heal the Bay : Tell your product’s story in the caption. Don’t miss the opportunity to directly tell your product’s story and how that ties into your organization’s mission in your caption on social media. Tag your products in Stories and Posts.

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