Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Align Your Mission and Vision Statements It doesn’t matter how many sound strategic principles you put into place: If you can’t clearly explain what your association’s mission is, it’s all going to be for naught. But don’t forget to craft a vision statement, too, that lays a vivid picture of the future you aim to create.

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Associations Practice Strategy Leadership 52

Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2024

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. This picture includes a family: a mom, a dad, a toddler, and a baby. Sound interesting? I’m so grateful.”

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Donor Chicago Gift Children 95

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. Increased retention. Impact storytelling. Similarly, paint a detailed picture of the challenges you’re facing, including qualitative and quantitative metrics from employees. Improved profitability. The more specific, the better.

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Ideas Practice Leadership Roles 52

CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the easiest ways to make this happen is to get your supporters involved: Ask your donors to tell #MyGivingStory, but be sure to ask them to tag your nonprofit in the post Create your own hashtag storytelling challenge or picture sharing challenge on social media (ie. to get the word out about your campaign.

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Practice Ideas Pledge Gift 115

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And I think this day I took this picture was the day that I really started to ask this question. And if you can’t articulate that, if you can’t really speak to that, then maybe you’re not bringing much value for them and maybe your retention rates are not going to be great. What do you sound like out in the world?

Results 85

Results Video Donation Fundraising 85

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. For example, you might describe the sights and sounds of your arts organization’s recent performance, or the smells and tastes at your nonprofit’s latest bake sale.

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Channel Marketing Fundraising Mail 59

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. This is also where the above points of the “what” (goal), “why” (story), “how” (call-to-action), and “when” (timeline) come together to display the complete picture. Do include visuals and a video.

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 102