Storytelling is one hot nonprofit trend. You can use it to reposition and grow your company, champion a cause, or reboot your career. No matter what great nonprofit practices you have in place, nothing will ever shift unless your audience really identifies with the story you tell. My friend Michael Margolis over at Get Storied has put together a totally […]

Storytelling is a culture of communication for your nonprofit. It’s how you communicate with donors, supporters, and staff. Storytelling is a driving factor for online fundraising success. One of the most effective ways to tell stories is through images. Images evoke emotion — the root of what drives your nonprofit or cause. We found this […]

We’re headed off to SXSW on March 9 – 13 and NTC on April 3 – 5 in the next few weeks. If you’re going to be there, we’d love to catch up. Feel free to ping us on Twitter or email. More info on these conferences below. It’s not too late to register! SXSW […]

Video is a powerful way to raise awareness and fundraise. YouTube and Vimeo are the two largest video hosting communities; which is better? YouTube and Vimeo had approximately 150 million and 7 million unique visitors last month, respectively. With the larger number of users, YouTube allows you to tap into a potentially large community of […]

How instill more storytelling into your online fundraising? Think about magazines — use images! Images help you communicate your message and help the reader understand what you’re about. You should incorporate some eye-catching images along with content about your fundraising campaign. One of the hardest parts if finding an image and editing it for us. There […]

The 2011 Online Giving Report was recently released detailing the behavior of individuals who donate online and the nonprofit organizations that benefit from such donations. The full report can be viewed here. Online fundraising is a key element in efforts by nonprofits to collect funds throughout the year. As a nonprofit, you face many challenges. […]

Today we interview Joe Lambert, founder of the Center of Digital Storytelling out in SF. He’s one of our panelists at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year too. Here he shares his thoughts on the future of nonprofit storytelling. What is the future of nonprofit storytelling? How is it going to change? I recently found […]

We love TechSoup, and our friends over there are having a digital storytelling challenge for nonprofits this month! Read more below. — TechSoup’s third annual Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs) is on this month, and we want you to submit! It’s simple: Create a one-minute video or five-photo slideshow capturing your organization’s mission, passion, and hard […]

When I left the TV news business, the only thing I knew for sure was that I wanted to tell inspiring stories. When I looked around most of those stories were coming out of the nonprofit world, so I decided to put my focus there. I believe that nonprofit stories will continue to be some […]

Lesson 1: Make fundraising a priority The first lesson nonprofits need to remember is this: fundraising is important. This is true no matter how large or small your nonprofit is. Once the fundamental importance of nonprofit fundraising is understood throughout your nonprofit, especially by your Board of Directors, raising funds becomes less difficult. Lesson 2 […]