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How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits must never forget that they are called to be active participants in the lives of people, learning stories, and, when appropriate, storytelling for further impact. This makes storytelling a necessity and a digital discipline. Professionally, Josh is the director of community impact for Madera Residential in Lubbock, Texas.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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3 Key Elements of a Lapsed Donor Letter

Neon CRM

Use storytelling elements to make this section of your lapsed donor letter as effective as possible. Accompany your story with a picture that helps your donor visualize the people they supported in the past. Over 3,000 people in Combe County are currently facing poverty and homelessness—at least 1,000 of them are children.

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

To quote a somewhat recent YouTube blog piece , "if a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million?" Storytelling with Mobile Video. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. " May well be. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Ready to enter?

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33+ Giving Tuesday Ideas: Expert Tips and Campaigns to Try

Bloomerang

Learn more about Giving Tuesday storytelling (and how to leverage social media for your campaign) with this helpful Facebook group. . Another option is to sell branded merchandise before the campaign, then ask supporters to sport their t-shirts on Giving Tuesday and snap a picture for social media. Matching Gifts. Photo Contest.

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