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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

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Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch From Scarcity to Abundance Mindsets When It Comes To Self-Care?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout? .” Scarcity captures the mind.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

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But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. .

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

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Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. And if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, you probably have some desires that you’re experiencing when it comes to major gift fundraising. There we go.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

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Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So just keep that in mind. You are running your annual campaign, you may be running a capital campaign, and/or you may be running like an endowment campaign, or maybe even some kind of restricted gift campaign.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

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But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. . So before I go into ARPA, are there any questions, Steven, that I should be mindful of?

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