Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom. Since the pandemic, her team also launched online classes toover 50,000 students. These range from sci-fi to rom-coms to documentaries.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By integrating storytelling with functionality, CauseVox Fund Pages help organizations bridge the gap between donor intent and impact. Fund pages combine storytelling, transparency, and simplicity to elevate the donor journey while reducing admin overhead for your team.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. This storytelling framework asks you to answer three basic questions: Story of Self: Why have you been called to serve?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Instead of We helped 500 students get access to books, say, Because of you, 500 students now have books. Make donors the heroes of your storytelling. Reinforce their identity as changemakers through storytelling and updates. How to fix it: Use identity-based messaging. Frame impact updates around the donors role.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

However, many students and clients I work with compare their cause with others and doubt that they have a compelling enough conflict for a story. This is where your storytelling work boils down to effective messaging. A big part of storytelling is finding your angle for telling the story. That’s just the nature of the beast.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2023

Here are five ways to prove impact through storytelling—and how you, the grantmaker, can help. For example, if a grantee runs an educational program, they could share a story about a student who improved their grades or gained admission into college due to the program.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

It’s common knowledge today that storytelling is among the most effective ways to connect with an audience and deliver content in a way that’s catchy, resonant, and memorable. But what does storytelling mean in practice? The post Truly Compelling Cases for Support: 5 Storytelling Tips appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Storytelling is an invaluable tool for non-profits. But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner. What is storytelling? I want to take a minute to differentiate story from storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

It means that you don't assume that the your students, participants, stakeholders, or audience knows nothing and that your job is to fill them with knowledge. It means asking questions and letting the audience, your students, or your stakeholders teach you. All this brings me to Andy Goodman and Storytelling as Best Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Storytelling is an essential fundraising skill for nonprofits. One of the most amazing nonprofit storytellers I ever heard in my life is Alberto Cairo (International Committee of the Red Cross) who delivered a truly inspirational speech during the International Fundraising Congress closing plenary. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Last night, a couple of us from the VisionLink team attended another wonderfully informative Tech4Good forum on the power and execution of video storytelling. Consider an audio slideshow Can even use an iPhone camera Ask corporate partners to donate/lend equipment Reach out and ask for free/cheap help from experts and students.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Does your nonprofit have a plan for storytelling this year ? The truth is that nonprofits are still not using storytelling as strategically as they could be. I hear from many of my clients and students that it “happens when it happens.” In other words, storytelling is an ad-hoc activity that happens on the side.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. We’ll provide five tips on how you can utilize storytelling to level up your nonprofit’s marketing materials and make a lasting impression. Let’s jump in.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

Playing For Change leverages this by directly impacting over 50,000 students through on-site teachers. Related Posts: Lessons from MotivateMonday | Change your thinking,… Is Your Nonprofit Storytelling Missing This Key Ingredient? Beyond its social impact, music has profound effects on the soul and the brain.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Let’s take a look at why storytelling matters for nonprofit grant writing and actionable ways you can start telling more compelling stories in your proposals. Why Does Storytelling Matter for Grant Writers? Storytelling matters in grant writing for two key reasons: Stories help you stand out. Stories make things real.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 27, 2025

High-Impact Image This donation receipt opens with a great image of a student and a tutor working together. This is reiterated by a quote from a student whos benefited from the organizations tutoring program, which signals to the donor that their donation will be used wisely to help real people.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

They mentor the next generation of data storytellers and leaders. Student Ambassadors. Student Ambassadors are Tableau champions in higher education, empowering, and inspiring others to acquire fundamental skills. Learn more about each Student Ambassador. User Group Ambassadors. Public Ambassadors. DataDev Ambassadors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2011

They'll share storytelling tips, budgets, and viral marketing secrets. Learn how to use digital storytelling to your advantage in this article, Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps. Discover how one library helped high school students use Flip video cameras in Flip-in' Out @ the Library.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories. Develop a strategy for data storytelling. Know your audience. Understand your capacity. Commit to a schedule.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. do not feel their education was worth the cost, colleges and universities have to work harder and smarter to recruit, enroll, and retain students.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They mentor the next generation of data storytellers and leaders. Student Ambassadors. Student Ambassadors are Tableau champions in higher education, empowering, and inspiring others to acquire fundamental skills. Learn more about each Student Ambassador. User Group Ambassadors. Public Ambassadors. DataDev Ambassadors.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students. To mention a few: . To mention a few: .

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At 327 people, the 2021 Tableau Ambassador class represents a 93% increase from last year across all branches: Forum, User Group, Tableau Public, Social, Student, and DataDev Ambassadors. They mentor the next generation of data storytellers and leaders. Student Ambassadors. Learn more about each Student Ambassador. .

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping. That’s a wrap!

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics. Lee Feinberg, a parent of a current JMU student, has been crucial to the success of the dashboard. . . “I Over the past few months, we’ve used it more and more as a storytelling platform." . Parent volunteer helps revamp COVID-19 dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At 327 people, the 2021 Tableau Ambassador class represents a 93% increase from last year across all branches: Forum, User Group, Tableau Public, Social, Student, and DataDev Ambassadors. They mentor the next generation of data storytellers and leaders. Student Ambassadors. Learn more about each Student Ambassador. .

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. See this principle at work in these good and bad examples of nonprofit storytelling. Great storytelling can boost the results of your year-end donation letter. Because the letter didn’t include an inspiring story that touched donor’s hearts.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Ive only just started reading Great Fundraising Organizations: Why and How the Worlds Best Charities Excel at Raising Money , and Im already widely recommending it to colleagues, students, and clients. And now you. A personal grievance of mine when it comes to our sector has always been the lack of case studies illustrating long-term success.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Storytelling connects donors to your mission and introduces them to the people theyll help with their gifts. When creating your school fundraising letter template, your nonprofit should emphasize your school’s impact on its current students and the next generation of your community. Describe your current initiative.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

Many college students or recent graduates are looking for experience and might be willing to help your nonprofit. Leverage storytelling People love stories, and nonprofits have no shortage of inspiring stories to share. Scheduling tools: Use free or low-cost tools like Buffer or Loomly to schedule posts in advance.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. Put Solar on It - Put Solar on It is a campaign to encourage world leaders to put solar paneling on their homes, in the case of the United States, on the White House.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The judges evaluated the vizzes based on three criteria: design, analysis, and storytelling. And more exciting news, we are happy to announce our second Iron Viz Student edition. If you’re a student interested in showing off your data chops, go here to learn more. Don’t want the inspiration to end?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The judges evaluated the vizzes based on three criteria: design, analysis, and storytelling. And more exciting news, we are happy to announce our second Iron Viz Student edition. If you’re a student interested in showing off your data chops, go here to learn more. Don’t want the inspiration to end?

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