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Motivating your P2P fundraisers

As professional fundraisers who work on peer to peer (P2P) events, we all want to know the best ways to motivate our fundraisers and help our events grow stronger every year. . ‘Average raised’ is a key metric for P2P events and helping push that number up can mean incredible…

KatyJune 20, 2023

Appeals Blog Creative Fundraising Storytelling Strategy

9 Proven Steps to Write a Better Year-End Fundraising Email Appeal

Are you ready for the festive fundraising season? With the end of another year rapidly approaching, our Agency Partners at NextAfter have used their digital fundraising expertise to prepare a list of ways you can improve your email appeals.

KatyOctober 3, 2022

Blog Community Fundraising Fundraising Inside Marlin Storytelling

Reflections of a busy fundraiser

A day in the life - So many questions, so little time. And if that heaving inbox, filled with spot fires, red flags and issues galore seems familiar – you’re not alone. How to manage burnout is an ongoing challenge in our sector: it’s the perfect storm of values-driven people…

KatyJune 9, 2022

Blog News Storytelling

A new hope for a new era

Like many, my phone and inbox has been filled with messages of Saturday night’s election result. Overwhelmingly, those messages are filled with a sense of renewed optimism and positivity.

KatyMay 26, 2022

Blog Branding Creative Fundraising Storytelling Strategy

Brand awareness as a critical piece of your fundraising puzzle

I’m returning from a very fun and informative few days at DigiRaise + EventRaise 2022. I heard some great speakers and got that freshly reawakened pleasure of hanging out in a large group in another city. Thank you Covid for making this year’s in-person experience even more rewarding!

KatyMay 6, 2022

Creative Fundraising Storytelling

Case studies that make you feel something

— by Miriam, Senior Copywriter – 5 min read PART ONE: THE HUNT A friend who volunteers for a not-for-profit recently asked me how to best approach and talk to a beneficiary about their story. This got me thinking. We all know that a compelling case study (you know,…

Marlin CommunicationsSeptember 22, 2020

Blog Fundraising Storytelling

Story Power

— by Deborah Niski - 8 min read So, it’s a sunny morning. A Tuesday. You bought milk this morning. And bread. Why? Because you’d run out? Because your kids only eat toast for breakfast? You could have made the purchase for any number of rational, easy-to-understand reasons. Now think…

KatyJune 2, 2020

Storytelling

The call to adventure: the journey to finding oneself.

The call to adventure: the journey to finding oneself. — by Karl Tischler, Marlin Communications About a year ago I completed the Australian Progress Advocacy Fellowship. It was perhaps one of the best things I’ve ever knowingly chosen to do. I’d decided to do this from a latent frustration that…

Marlin CommunicationsFebruary 28, 2020

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