Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re filming a video, writing an email, or posting on social media, use the following storytelling techniques to connect with your audience on a deeper level: Introduce a main character. Introduce a challenge that your character faces. Instead of solely focusing on influencers with large follower counts, prioritize relevance.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling. There isn’t a revolutionary change in how to attain and retain the attention of influencers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Your nonprofit relies on storytelling to forge emotional connections with potential supporters and spread awareness of your mission. Plus, inviting thought leaders, influencers , and other guest speakers that your audience cares about helps secure your place as a trustworthy nonprofit. What unique perspectives can we offer?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These 31 ideas for online fundraising for nonprofits will help you reach your yearly goals and have fun while you do it! Video storytelling: Emotionally compelling videos showcasing your organization’s impact can help humanize your cause by showing the real people behind your organization’s efforts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Connect with past and current co-workers , colleagues, partners, and influencers. For example: 1.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing goals often focus around building recognition, fostering community, and increasing your funds raised. Through the combination of visual and auditory elements, video storytelling effectively drives connection between your organization and the audience to inspire them to support your cause.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

I also had the privilege of speaking on another Online Storytelling panel with Roger Burks and Jay Davis. This live session rounded out our Online Storytelling Bootcamp webinar series with a focus on how to create a culture of storytelling within one's organization. Have everyone buy into the idea that storytelling matters!

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

In a world facing countless challenges and inequalities, even one day of generosity and compassion can transform lives and communities. These events provide a platform to share your organization’s mission, stories of impact, and the challenges you seek to address. But that excitement does not need to be limited to one day a year!

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Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 16, 2023

Gen Zers are influenced the most by social media when it comes to fundraising. Keep in mind that 72% of all charitable giving comes from individuals , make your mission resonate with them through storytelling. With a focused and polished plan, you can reach your fundraising goals and make an even bigger impact in your community.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp’s goal is to leave you informed and inspired, ready to take on any challenge. Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Board members can also spearhead matching gift challenges. Matching gift challenges allow both major donors to show their support and encourage others to support the organization as well. They can provide funding, in-kind donations and other resources that will help you achieve your goals.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Who are the messengers and storytellers that can most effectively deliver these messages and move this narrative?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

It is the high level goal that you've identified as a top priority and that you plan to work diligently towards. By setting a meaningful chief initiative, you can be more strategic in what you choose to work on through out the year so that you get closer to your biggest goal. Interested in storytelling planning resources?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. Like the title of the AIGA article states, small budgets are a big challenge for many nonprofits.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. They saw successes through implementing a variety of event types to engage a wider audience and recommended setting goals low to help increase participation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

One of the most sought after auctioneers in California, Ellen is well known for breaking fundraising records, exceeding fundraising goals, thoughtfully helping each client with the planning and strategizing of their event and, of course, breaking into song! 25) Keith McLane Keith L.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Paid social media can help you further your nonprofit’s reach so you can reach and surpass the SMART goals you set.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Navigating the complexities of year-end fundraising for nonprofits can often feel like threading through a maze of challenges. Be Realistic When it Comes to Goal-Setting Setting clear and realistic fundraising goals can also give nonprofits a strong predictor of upcoming campaigns. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

But it isn’t enough to have a rough idea of messaging, an incomplete timeline, some scheduled tweets, and an arbitrary fundraising goal. Ready, set, goals! It should contain purposeful actions that aim to achieve specific fundraising goals from a diversified group of sources, and be data-driven from start to finish.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

ALS’ “Ice Bucket Challenge” was launched in 2014 and relaunched in 2021 due to its popularity.) The Rainmaker Campaigns ALS Association – “Ice Bucket Challenge” St. 25% YELLOW: Emotional Storytelling Emotional appeals were crucial for tapping donor heartstrings. The campaigns are, for the most part, current and ongoing.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

A nonprofit marketing plan lays the roadwork your team must follow to achieve your goals. A nonprofit marketing plan is a detailed document that outlines your goals for a marketing campaign, how you plan to reach them, who is responsible for various tasks, what marketing channels you’ll use, and more. Cohesion across your team.

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

Loyalty, trust, and a strong understanding of the product offerings are some of the main factors that influence a customer’s decision to work with a certain company, and that starts with one of the first people they meet, an account executive. We are supporting nonprofits and helping them achieve their goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Criteria is really important to consider: the crowds voting = who do you want to win this; the hosts/judges/experts voting = quality, value, innovation or alignment with competition/organizational goals. Embrace storytelling. Public’s favorites put to expert judges for final selection. Sometimes that means crowdsourcing.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Where do we need to innovate to meet our fundraising and campaign goals as resilient nonprofits? Derrick Feldmann – INFLUENCE|SG. Fundraising During Challenging Times. As we look toward next year, our panel of nonprofit leaders will discuss what has fundamentally changed. Kelley Jarrett – Blackbaud.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In the waning weeks of December, many of us find ourselves reflecting on the past year, wondering where all the time went and what goals to set for next year. The challenge ahead is how to adapt and develop your fundraising practice based on the trends we can see now, and still be agile moving forwards. 2017 is no different.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Information Sharing and Storytelling. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Reaching employees with internal messages and program information is more challenging than ever, but possible with creativity and commitment. Increase Employee Giving.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Creating a digital plan does that by aligning strategies to support your marketing goals. Step 1: Define your goals. Defining your marketing goals help to identify the primary strategies you need to accomplish your objectives. How would you then prioritize resources so they are spent on activities that work to achieve that goal?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

For each of your online campaigns, your revenue goal should tie into your overall fundraising strategy. With all of the new, innovative fundraising tools available online, the price of your campaigns may go up, making it challenging to actually get a return at all. Here are a few marketing tips you can use to increase your ROI: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Engage influencers and free agents.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Leading Together 2019 is a gathering of leaders in philanthropy and other influencers in business, government, and academia eager to connect, learn, and share with one another. Join us at ILA to learn how to break through the challenges of shifting practices, advocate for all students, and make a difference in and out of the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But what we’ve also seen are upticks in advocacy behavior, strength in the power of social influencers , and real belief in the capacity for nonprofits to cultivate change , in a world filled with so much uncertainty. That statistic in itself is a dramatic indication of what’s happening in the realm of consumerism today.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

With over 1 billion monthly active users and a highly visual format, Instagram provides an ideal canvas for organizations to showcase their impact through compelling storytelling. Strategic storytelling is key to engaging new donors on Instagram. This is where the power of Instagram storytelling comes in.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

According to our research, 83% of Millennials and Gen Zers trust nonprofits more than for-profit corporations and 86% agree nonprofits are needed to help solve the world’s biggest challenges. Our goal is to harness this high level of trust into next gen donor engagement and ultimately, financial returns.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. Interview people who are your influencers and champions, and find out why. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Break Through the Noise. Offer a Call to Action.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

1) Visual Storytelling The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Making progress on your campaign goals? Consider this.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. Learn about the challenges that faced your volunteer program then and identify if there are improvements that you could make now. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling. View this response as an opportunity.

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