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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

Fast Company Tech

Over the next few decades, it extended its tentacles into regular theater business and home video, before launching a film production shingle: Village Roadshow Pictures. During the first half of 2024, Village Roadshow Pictures entered a wave of layoffs that saw its staff downsize from 45 employees to nine.

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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

The person then threatens to make the picture public unless the victim pays them. The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. Victims of such exploitation often believe they are messaging with another teen and eventually share a graphic or explicit image of themselves.

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A love affair with a typeface? For these famous directors, type is part of their art

Fast Company Tech

But last week, as we reported on Sean Bakers extensive use of Aguafina Script across his past four movies, we wondered: How many other directors have firmly embraced a single, singular typefaceand what does that typeface say about their films? Ultimately, a title sequence and a title font is in service to a larger picture.

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Stewardship Tactics That Are Sure To Keep Donors Tied To Your Cause

Bloomerang

Send video updates A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video is worth even more. Avoid heavy scripting and instead capture genuine moments that resonate. Twice a year, create a video update that goes beyond statistics and a talking head executive director, to highlight the human stories behind your mission.

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3 Quick Tips for a Better Nonprofit Website Aesthetic

sgEngage

If you bought a bottle of Coca-Cola, for example, its red-and-white label and Spencerian script logo would let you know what kind of flavor and quality you could expect from the beverage inside. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which rings very true with nonprofit website design.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Again this is about simplicity- anyone can update Twitter, but allowing participants to do it directly from their headquarters is easier on them and will get your message out to their network, YouTube – A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Well how many words is a video worth?

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Mastering Your End-of-Year Fundraising Plan: Calendar + Checklist

Bloomerang

October Collect testimonials, impact stories, videos, and pictures and use them to write ‘reporting back’ stewardship emails, postcards, texts, thank-a-thon phone scripts, or letters. Give board members a thank-you script and a few discovery questions in case the donor answers. Line up any volunteers or campaign leaders.

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