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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. Setting: This is where your story happens. Your donation of $7.32

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Games Games Games

Museum 2.0

In any case, when I was a kid, growing up on Long Island, the newly opened Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) was like a mysterious dark cave for my sister and I to explore, ever on a hunt for gems. It’s hard to describe, but man it was fun to play. How about you?

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. I was initially totally skeptical that people would actually engage in what sounds like a potentially uncomfortably personal or complicated exercise.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. So, now is the fun part. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise.

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Designing Recommendation Systems that Go Beyond "You'll Like This"

Museum 2.0

Pre-Netflix, there was never a history of people giving something "four stars" when they dropped it in the return slot. The presumption on the part of museums is that rating things is a fun activity onto itself and that's why people use them on Netflix and other sites. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. They have children, they’re doing all of this.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children.

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