Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Unless your nonprofit embraces responsive design or mobile-first design aesthetics, your stories and calls-to-action will go unread and untapped. Not responsive, one narrow column, large photos and font, and large, colorful, tappable call-to-action buttons. Large headline, minimal text, visuals prioritized, and large tappable.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By telling the right stories in the right way, you can lure visitors to your donation page and inspire them to give. Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. To get this reaction from more visitors to your site, you first need to tell the right stories in the right way.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 5, 2021

But what I really want to highlight is how they divide up the newsletter sections with great headlines. They use very catchy headlines that show the organization’s work. Unlike some of the other emails that we’ve looked at, this one does not use headlines or varying weights of text to make the copy easier to read.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2024

Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.) Incorporate Storytelling There’s no doubt that stories are powerful and evocative—we have plenty of books, movies, and TV shows as proof of that.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In this guide, we’ll highlight the following tips to help you improve your nonprofit website’s emotional appeals: Tell compelling stories. Tell compelling stories. It’s much more effective to bring readers into the story through the protagonist’s feelings and actions, rather than summarizing what happened using exposition.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? and it is communicated through your logo, typography, colors, photo style, and tone or voice. The fewer words you use the better, but you will need words to tell your story. Next, think about photo quality.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes. Have a clear message Kick off your giving page with an attention-grabbing headline that captures your mission and what you’re asking for.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

8 Keys to Writing the Perfect Fundraising Letter Your fundraising letter must quickly grab the reader’s attention, tell a story , and ask for a gift. They’ll skim through photos, images, and quotes that stand out. Continue by telling more of a brief but moving story that demonstrates the need met by your nonprofit.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes. Have a clear message Kick off your giving page with an attention-grabbing headline that captures your mission and what you’re asking for.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. Find the newsworthy stories within your event. Write your posts like a news story. Original quotes make your story read like news. Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This gives the ability to feature photos and large fonts and highlight important elements that encourage people to act. Also, make your stories easy to read by using 18-point headlines and body text that is at least 13-point: nothing is more of a turn-off than a site that requires a visitor to squint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your credibility is judged harshly if you can’t communicate your nonprofit’s success stories in a professional, visually compelling, modern format. First, the body text column is wide enough to feature photos and large font. Use large font for headlines and body text. Next City Blog. Heifer International Blog.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures. Headline: Create a clear, compelling headline that covers the most important aspect of your message. Review the publication to see how news about your story would fit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy has crippled the East Coast is this morning’s New York Time’s headline. But the story is personal for me. You can only look at the photos for so long before you want to do something. ACBoardwalk #Frankenstorm #Sandy twitter.com/ChrisBonanni/s…. Chris Bonanni (@ChrisBonanni) October 29, 2012.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Person] is a person whose story I am going to tell you now A powerful way to communicate authenticity is to tell a true story about a real person and provide real details about the way your reader’s action will have an impact. Rip from the headlines The news is urgent, tangible, and real. We know that.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Tell stories of the impact of their gift. Then share stories illustrating the impact their gift is creating. Share impact stories and ensure the donate button is easy to find. Regular e-newsletters are a great way to share stories. Continue to tell stories of the impact of their gifts and use the word “you” .

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

Compile Stories Into Impactful Newsletters A collection of your blog posts—centered around the same subject—can be compiled into an email newsletter that you send to your supporters. Read Ruby’s story. This allows you to use her story to show the impact of your organization, which is typically the goal for a newsletter.

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Classy

APRIL 5, 2021

To get started, here are a few campaign elements we recommend: Create a clear custom headline . After creating an individual peer-to-peer or registration with fundraising campaign page, a supporter can seamlessly push that campaign, complete with their name, photo, and personal headline, to Facebook to create a Facebook fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time. In the last few weeks, we have been pummeled with disturbing headlines about the current events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Identify Brand Evangelists Within Your Organization. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Classy

JUNE 16, 2021

In your instructions, you can also include helpful tips for things like what campaign photo the fundraiser might want to use, or ideas for their campaign page’s headline. A great way to help fundraisers see how they can tell the story of their campaign is to link to past storytelling examples from other successful campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Photo by Fuel Relief Fund on GlobalGiving. Dreadful disaster stories are still making headlines; isn’t the public tired of giving? For example, we saw that donations to the South Asia Floods (starting August 17) increased after Harvey Floods led the headlines in August 28-20. What You Can Do To Prevent Donor Fatigue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Conversation starters are questions, visuals, anecdotes, stories, or other snippets of content that you share on social channels to ignite engagement. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. Craft good headlines. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. Once you have claimed or created your LinkedIn Page, the set up process is straightforward.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Set her heart on fire with stories of real lives and real change – it’s what she wants to know after giving. ONE Success story. Kick off your newsletter by sharing one good story that shows how your nonprofit is making a difference. Don’t let a story go on and on. Less is definitely more. Lots of stats and facts.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Each headline and subsequent sub-headlines should lead the reader to the conclusion you are trying to make. A good framework to follow, especially if you want to show the impact your nonprofit makes , goes something like this: Give an example of a success story by highlighting results. Write A Headline That People Want To Click.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Showcase your mission statement as a sub-headline beneath your nonprofit’s name to grab your visitors’ attention and let them know what your organization is about right off the bat. Your nonprofit can also share stories of beneficiaries you’ve helped to make your cause even more compelling and inspire action.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 13, 2021

This change would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news and feel-good stories about the organization. The stories can be tightened up. In Bonnie’s case, I noted that a story from a parent packed a strong emotional punch, but again, could be trimmed. The photos need captioning.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

We are surrounded by stories: our own story, the stories of our families and friends, and the stories of the work we do every day. These stories simply exist in our minds until we add language and share them with others. And, as we all know, a story you share with others has the power to change the world.

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Classy

AUGUST 23, 2021

Step 1: Upload a custom image to use as your headline. . Use a headline image on your landing page instead of a simple text headline to add visual appeal and give you more control over how your page looks. Tell your story with a sense of urgency to motivate immediate action. Try It on Classy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2013

Browsing the headlines on The New York Times , CNN , USA Today , and Google News'' sites is one long litany of horror: Murder. Things will not get better unless we see news stories that describe our challenges and possible solutions. Photo by cloudzilla. I''m tired of the news. Selfishness. Fighting in Congress. Integrated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). All that said, as social media managers, we need to read in order have moments when we are completely immersed in a story using our brains to process words, sentences, story structure, and plot lines – not just soundbites, headlines, tweets, and pins.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2017

It could be a photo, a short story, an op-ed—anything. We’ve all seen those horribly clickbait-y headlines , which always seem to include “You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next!!” Instead of writing baiting headlines, try reorganizing your content to increase readability. Don’t sacrifice good content for going viral.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Use bold for headlines. One column will take up two-thirds of the page layout (or a little more) for content stories, and the other third is for secondary navigation and graphics for special campaigns. Images should be consistent in size and resolution and should be placed in the same location on every page. Repetition is key.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. What do these new AI tools do?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him. Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell.

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