Are you struggling to come up with fresh and interesting story-worthy nonprofit content to share with your constituents? As nonprofit professionals, the chances are excellent that you are doing great work each and every day. However, itâs also possible your communications feel slightly stale if you are sharing the same [...]
Small, easy tweaks to improve your nonprofit website that add up to a better donor experience In the world of GP motor sport, they call it incremental gains. It's the minute alterations which over time accumulate to large advances. Shaving fractions of a second off lap times by examining and [...]
Your nonprofit mailing list has the wrong people on it! And thatâs a huge problem, because 40% of your mailingâs success depends upon your list. Another 40% is the offer, while 20% is the creative. Where do you spend your time and energy? Alas, fundraisers often leave the building of [...]
Now that you have set some priorities in your strategic planning and are building your sustainability, letâs focus on capturing the attention of your nonprofit's audience online. We all know that there is a lot of information shared through digital content, but it is important to understand how best to [...]
As a non-profit professional, you know how important it is to have continual contact with your constituents. But youâre 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 [...]
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 [...]
One day while searching through a greeting card section at a local store, I glimpsed at a card that read, âBe the author of your own story.â At that moment, I had recently been asked to tell my own story, once again, to a nonprofit organization looking to share my [...]
As fundraisers, everything we want is on the other side of good communication. Story is one of the most effective forms of communication available â itâs 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 [...]
Did you know that Spanish is the fourth most spoken language worldwide? With more than 530 million speakers, Spanish is quickly becoming a lingua franca across Latin America and the world. In the United States, 13% of the population speaks Spanish natively, and millions more are learning it every day. [...]
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: [...]
Over the last month of shelter in place, Iâve been observing the emails coming through my inbox. Though there have been some that were tone deaf or inappropriate for the current environment, there have been many that were well-crafted and memorable. The ones that have stuck with me were short, [...]
Now that we've entered a new decade (by that I mean it's now the 2020s; I know there wasn't a year zero or whatever), an ever-popular theme for fundraising events has renewed life: the 1920s or Great Gatsby-themed gala. Not since 2013 when the Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie adaptation was released [...]