Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ve all heard how important stories are to fundraising communications. But how do you actually pick a great story? And more importantly, how do you take a great story and turn it into a great fundraising story? . To have a great fundraising story, you need a few key things. You need a clear problem.

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Hands on Fundraising

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The next problem: how would we get there? The post This is your brain on stories appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising. None of the theaters nearby were showing it – yet. But my friends and I were determined. We located a theater 40 minutes away. My parents couldn’t give me the car that […].

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

“ Numbers have an important story to tell. Imagine the impact your nonprofit could have if audiences better recalled its stories and messages or made better use of your organizations tools and services. To excavate it, we developed a story framework structured around a hook, the conflict, and its resolution.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Over the weekend, Samsung purged the One UI 7 update from its servers, which indicates that a serious problem has occurred. There are also reports that Samsung's supposedly private Secure Folder has a bug in One UI 7 that can see photos from the gallery appear in auto-generated Stories. Read full article Comments

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Focus instead on the benefit that your work brings to the societal problem you’re trying to solve. It’s important to step back and ask yourself: Are the stories we’re including in our fundraising appeals helping or harming the communities we’re striving to support? 4) Focus on the Benefit. 5) Center Equity and Inclusion.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Reddit ran into some problems on Thursday. This story is developing. A Reddit outage started roughly between 3 and 4 p.m. ET on Thursday and is currently ongoing at the time of publication. Reddit is not working for me on either a web browser or the mobile app at the time of writing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The problem wasn’t the mission or the work we were doing; it was the way we were engaging with our donors. We started sharing the stories of the collective’s artisans, illustrating the direct impact of their donations. Donors began to see themselves as being part of our story, and their engagement and loyalty increased.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

For most of these users, it’s Instagram Stories. . In just one year, the daily user count for Instagram Stories jumped from 400 million (June 2018) to 500 million. That means that more than half of Instagram’s 1 billion users look at and consume Instagram Stories – EVERY DAY! . Here are 6 ways. . Well, it depends!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

With more than 150 countries joining, and more than 14 billion impressions on social channels every year, it’s the perfect opportunity to tell your story to a global audience of people interested in making a difference through the power of social media. The theme of your story can help you define the content you’ll need to create.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2021

However, one problem still plagues GivingTuesday and year-end donations: most of them are one-time donations. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to accomplish this: First, gather your GivingTuesday and end-of-year stats and personal stories in one place. Next, write an article with your data and personal stories interwoven.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Even adding impact stories to your newsletter is not enough. TIP 12: Highlight the emotional aspect of your impact by telling simple, compelling stories; don’t just recite a bunch of statistics. Humans are wired for stories. The best stories you can tell are those that lead from your collective community’s values.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This is where data and statistics come in, combined with a powerful image that tells a story. Data helps the reader or viewer understand that this problem needs to be addressed, and fast. Posts with personal, heartfelt stories always work best on social media. Along with urgency, clearly spell out how the funds will be used.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G As Data Entropy represents the disorder and chaos within a data platform, data observability solutions emerged to solve this type of problems. Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

And while this all makes for a great PR/marketing story for VML and the state, its one that reaches far beyond the initial buzz. Noodling around on their instruments , the songwriters have added lyrical alt text to several hundred images, with the hope of reaching a thousand as a benchmark.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

And with ongoing tariff chaos , Nintendo likely has bigger problems. That's a political problem more than anything, and any potential solutions to it are well above my pay grade. This story is an opinion piece and doesn't necessarily reflect the views of Mashable or its publisher, Ziff Davis.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

If you ask anyone who started a company, on Tuesday it’s a hiring problem. On Friday, it’s a finance problem. Its those stories that speak exactly to why Leve and his cofounders created Summit. Or as Summit cofounder Brett Leve describes it: a mutual aid society for entrepreneurs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

NPOs often struggle with when to use numbers and statistics to demonstrate how large a problem is versus highlighting individual stories of those affected. The thought being is that if a nonprofit can tell everyone how large a problem is through numbers supporters will be compelled to act. However, this is not necessarily true.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It's not the latest processor, but it handles day-to-day tasks without a problem. A long binge-watch session might be a different story. SEE ALSO: The roborock Qrevo Edge robot vacuum is down to its lowest-ever price Performance is powered by the A14 Bionic chip, the same one used in the iPhone 12.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

Instagram posts need to include visual content of high quality, and you can include long-form captions to tell a story. 5) Tell a story, don’t just make the ask. Use social media to tell a story to make it easier for your supporters to learn more about your cause and warm them up to the ask.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Layoffs were decimating storied media titles like Sports Illustrated , and Collins was hearing rumors that G/O Media, the holding company owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners, was looking to shed 36-year-old satirical news publication The Onion from its portfolio. Its a huge problem. The media landscape looked bleak.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They’re about a specific problem, a specific solution, and how the donor can help bring that solution about. Generally, sharing one story is best. Impact reports, on the other hand, tend to share multiple stories. Appeal letters are not about the organization’s accomplishments, awards, and victories.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Throne Bathrooms (@thronebathrooms) Built on accountability Throne says its smart bathrooms use accountability to solve the age-old problem of unwanted bathroom activity. Throne bathrooms are cheaper to clean and maintain because problem users can be banned from the system.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Theyre often the first to see or hear about problems, and listening to their insights can help avoid headaches. If your company has an interesting way of enlisting your frontline workers to help you innovate, share your story with me at stephaniemehta@mansueto.com , and consider applying to be a Best Workplace for Innovators.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

In our conversation, he explains why our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves. Your team shares an invitation to improve our relationships: When we change the stories that we tell about people, our relationships with those people change.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

This shifts the dynamic from me versus you to us against the problem. Get their side of the story Show you understand that your leader is dealing with pressures, too. I realize I may not know the whole story. Find common ground Continue to ease in by creating a shared goal. Would that be useful?

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

If you represent the American Bankers Association, financial acumen probably isn’t a problem. Tell your financial story. A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader. And, in the current volatile environment, you need the best governance you can get. Don’t leave the numbers out in the cold.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2019

Have a compelling story. You need a moving story to get your supporters excited about helping you raise funds. Be sure that the story and communications for your fundraising campaign or event answer these questions: What makes our organization unique? What problem does this peer-to-peer fundraising campaign solve?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem? Metas own oversight board has pointed out huge problems with the plan. The old third-party fact checking suffered from similar latency problems. Meta may have missed the chance to scientifically develop a new, non-derivative user experience that could avoid X’s problems.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the best ways to do this is by sharing a story about someone whos benefited from your organization and how your donors helped make a difference in that persons life. The story at the beginning of your donation letter will reinforce your appeal! Describe that reason clearly and include key details like dates or guidelines.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

After a little more than 30 hours with this gargantuan stabbing simulator, my only real problem with Shadows is that it often feels like a giant boulder being held delicately in place by a single plank of wood. There are suggested story missions for you to do, but you can also do things in basically any order you want.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

billion if you want," Altman wrote in a scathing rebuke shortly after the WSJ published its story, referencing Musk's disastrous acquisition of the social media platform, which has since lost almost 80 percent of what it was worth when he bought it. No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Machine learning algorithms can now diagnose diseases, predict climate patterns, and solve complex problems that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. From Environmental Challenge to Potential Solution Here’s where the story gets truly exciting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

If possible, include data to show the full extent of the problem you’re addressing. Tell the story of your campaign and how each gift can get you closer to your goal. Prove to your donor that they weren’t part of a mass email chain and that you truly value their involvement. Be specific in your storytelling. Provide campaign updates.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

They were good people with interesting stories to share. Despite his considerable achievements, his need to recount every detail of his company’s growth story suggested he was still seeking validation. In the past week, I had “conversations” with two leaders who talked too much.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This is the story of a board member going above and beyond, making connections, and contributing to the work of two organizations she is passionate about at once. All the way through, she has been thoughtful, collaborative, and willing to listen and to problem-solve.”

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