CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

Watch the interview on demand here. Using The Power Of Storytelling To Sell The Need. A great fundraiser is a great storyteller. The many flexibilities of storytelling lets you get creative with how you want to bring your donor on the journey with you, whether it’s a written appeal or a video.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

When done well, your newsletter can even help your organization raise money. When asking members of The Storytelling Non-Profit community about their organization’s newsletter campaigns, the top challenge their organizations were facing was to find the right type of content that keeps their audience engaged.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events. If you put aside basic resource issues of time and money, I think fear is actually one of the biggest obstacles.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is natural in any line of work, but in non-profit storytelling I find that it mostly impacts my process for writing and telling stories. One of the changes I’ve recently made is simplifying my personal definition of storytelling to this: Storytelling is the process of sharing facts, which are told with emotions and details.

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2024

This requires substantial market research and should include conversations with your audiences through surveys, interviews, or even focus groups. They treat audiences like ATMs to shell out actions or money left and right without nurturing them or making them feel included. Community is what makes movements last.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Chris has helped hundreds of nonprofit charities to raise more money for their mission through gala fundraisers. Kimberly is here to help you break records and raise the most money for your charitable cause. An award winning professional speaker and storyteller, Cathy is also an accomplished Toastmaster and Toastmaster judge.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2016

I remember telling him that I was ready to write a book on storytelling. Now, in April 2016 I’m finally able to share that book with the world – The Storytelling Non-Profit: A practical guide to telling stories that raise money and awareness. Being a consistent storyteller will look different for every organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We hope this campaign inspires people to connect with the Red Cross mission and illustrates the affect their donations of time, money, and blood can have on real lives. (2) We ended up with a list of about 300 storytellers. We asked a lot of these storytellers and we were overwhelmed by their courage and willingness to share.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 12, 2024

I’m a former news anchor turned nonprofit marketing and communications professional who is passionate about helping organizations tell their stories using public relations and storytelling techniques. To keep it organized, the media contact is responsible for funneling the requests, coordinating calendars, and providing talking points.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Board members are often connected with people who can help you raise money in a variety of ways: they may have connections at other nonprofits, or they might be able to introduce you to potential donors through their own personal networks. Corporate Partnerships Corporate partners are a great way to raise money for your nonprofit.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They know firsthand the hardships of engaging board members, raising money, and managing unruly board members. And why not, you’re paying good money! Look for a facilitator who is enthusiastic, high energy, motivational, a master storyteller, and uses retreat tactics to make the day fun, meaningful, and memorable.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Fundraising events and one-time campaigns are great ways to raise money for your organization, but infrequent fundraisers don’t provide consistent income. Annual giving campaigns can raise money to cover your day-to-day expenses by bringing in a steady stream of funding. Also, humanize the fundraising by giving a face to your campaign.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

to give the different donor personas names Here is Animal Advocate Annie: Age: 35 Gender: Female Location: Urban or suburban area Occupation: Marketing professional Income: Middle to upper-middle class Background: From your survey and interview data you found: Annie has always had a deep love for animals and has grown up with pets.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos help you raise more money. You can make a video with your smartphone and share it on your social channels without spending any money. After you ask supporters for money to support an initiative, you need to let them know how it turned out. Are you raising money for a new building or a van?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2021

replacing all of the immersive storytelling with a litany of the organization’s accomplishments. . Look no further than soffi.org to find a treasure trove of curated fundraising examples featuring interviews with the designers and copywriters and eye-candy examples of each piece. . taking the donor out of the story. .

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

The money pledged is an example of historical cycles of reactionary funding traditionally followed by retrenchment and backlash. Informed by over 15 interviews with BMA Fellows and field leaders, the report offers three calls to action for the field to be more just and equitable. .

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Data storytelling is about bringing your data to life in three simple steps: Explore: find patterns and insights Monitor: check performance (leading indicators and key performance indicators) Explain: go beyond the what and dig further into the why. Know your data in and out,” says Emily.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept. Will the money be used much further down the road? For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Money – Securing cash and backing. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. The Shift – embracing the unknown and taking tangible steps. The Place – connecting with people, community and place.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And the better you get at the whole suite of donor engagement, the more money you’re going to raise. And that gets you, again, much more money in the long run. . Well, good afternoon, everybody.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When you're building a movement, video is an indispensable storytelling tool. We shared Yash’s invaluable insights on digital storytelling and we couldn’t resist sharing his advice on creating compelling videos. The highlights of our interview are below: Why is video such an important component of an organization’s digital strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Money – Securing cash and backing. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. The Shift – embracing the unknown and taking tangible steps. The Place – connecting with people, community and place.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Money – Securing cash and backing. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. The Shift – embracing the unknown and taking tangible steps. The Place – connecting with people, community and place.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If your website doesn’t offer a convenient, pleasant user experience, visitors won’t be inclined to continue browsing it, let alone donate some of their hard-earned money. If you don’t know where to start when it comes to telling your story, think back to the basics of storytelling that most of us learn in elementary school.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. Stop looking at Instagram as a money spigot that you can just turn on.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Wheels - You may not have a vehicle on loan from Ford, but you can reach out to your community to see if anyone has a vehicle they can loan and provide a clear donation opportunity for people to help pay for your gas money by inviting them to fuel your trip by donating $50 for a tank of gas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They hit on three major pain points for nonprofit donors: Most donors prefer to know that their money goes directly to helping people rather than to operating costs (hence the “100% model”). Donors often feel confused about where their money ends up or don’t really trust that it’s being used as promised (hence “proving it”).

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign page, Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , and YouTube page offer numerous how-to resources and examples of effective nonprofit videos. Applications such as Ustream , Qik.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2015

Be a storyteller. Storytelling is critical for fundraising. Being a storyteller also means learning to interview: developing questions that are not leading but do lead to great information that is useable. putting the interviewee at ease so he or she opens up. being comfortable with emotion (the interviewee’s and ours).

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 3, 2017

We will cover topics from storytelling and email marketing to donor-centricity and everything in between. Passing and taking notes to Brandraise For Money with Kelley Peterson. This interview is truly reMARCable #CauseCamp @marcapitman pic.twitter.com/C8u4dzRNNT. CauseCamp pic.twitter.com/5K4WH1iLS2.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2015

I would gain the interest of good talent by sharing with them all of the reasons why they should be interested in an interview: benefits, career opportunities and the potential to work with awesome people. When I began working with nonprofits, I realized that there is a very common parallel between recruiting and fundraising: storytelling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. And we're not going to spend a lot of money on big plastic things and a big banner. laughing] And what else?

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

You or your marketing agency may conduct interviews with target audience members, share surveys, create audience personas, perform A/B tests, and more. For example, acquiring new donors will help you grow your funding—money that you can then spend on helping beneficiaries. Conducting user research. Performing audits.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. One tactic is going online. Rockstar Beth Kanter presented on social media ROI.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

We’d interview the head of a charter school network or a school district that was doing a great distance learning program to show people that innovators were coming up with creative and actionable solutions to the challenges of school shutdowns. So we started a newsletter called the ‘New Reality Roundup’. That’s been hard.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2016

Most often, nonprofit storytelling is referenced in terms of organizations creating and sharing their own stories. Here are three steps your organization can take to start leveraging the power of the news cycle to tell your stories and raise money: Keep a Pulse on the News.

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