As non-profit professionals, we know that dedicated supporters and volunteers are the lifeblood to our charitable organizations. It's so important not to let their role be taken for granted, and let's be honest, it's not unknown for the those of us within a busy nonprofit to innocently overlook the everyday [...]
As a non-profit professional, you know how important it is to have continual contact with your constituents. But you’re struggling to know what to say. How do you create quality nonprofit content to connect with your audience and keep them engaged? Quality nonprofit content can often be broken into three [...]
Communication is crucial for nonprofit success. Learning how to attract, appeal and engage supporters is the life-blood of an organization. In a virtual world, a major amount of relationship-building is now done online. This has nonprofits asking the questions: How often should I be contacting my constituents? How can I [...]
Narrowing the emotional distance between your nonprofit and your donor audience can be done very effectively through storytelling. But to tell a good story, you have to get a good story. You have to set up storytelling interviews. This is most commonly done through undertaking interviewers with a supporter, staff [...]
How-To Keep Composure While Moving an Audience to Action Many nonprofit organizations are busting at the seams with emotional stories that tug on the heartstrings. Stories of hardship, poverty, abuse, and heartbreak may be difficult to share and difficult to hear but they are real and deserve to be told. [...]
Save more time and raise more money with a great selection of stories Storytelling is one of the most effective and important forms of communication for nonprofits. It helps connect the audience to the mission in a personal and tangible way. Creating a story bank for your organization will ensure [...]
Dos and Don’ts for Sharing Stories On Stage and Online As fundraising professionals, mastering the art of becoming a nonprofit storyteller and presenting a good message will help move the giving needle at events -- in-person and online. Whether you are presenting the story yourself or have enlisted a guest [...]
As fundraisers, everything we want is on the other side of good communication. Story is one of the most effective forms of communication available – it’s science! Since the beginning of time, human beings have looked to story to learn from other's successes and mistakes. Human beings look to story [...]
Stories have a unique way of engaging an audience. If you want to learn how to win hearts, change minds, and get your audience to take action, you need to get good at sharing stories. Here are six storytelling tips to win hearts, change minds, and create a real impact: [...]
As much as we all like to believe we make decisions based on sound logic, stats, and reason - this simply isn't the case. People act on emotion. And scientifically speaking, emotion is a chemical reaction. If you want to prompt your audience into action during your next campaign or [...]