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Gala and Beyond: How to Maximize Your Fundraising Video's Impact
Date: Wednesday, July 29th 11:00 AM (PDT)
Location: On-Line
Price: Free
Fundraising videos require a significant investment of time, energy, and money. Too often, nonprofits treat them as a one-night event asset when they could be the foundation of a much broader communications strategy. Reuben Herzl shares a practical framework for turning a single fundraising video into a campaign asset that creates value well beyond the gala.
Learning Outcomes
Rethink the investment: Plan your fundraising video as the centerpiece of a campaign—not just a gala presentation.
Design for greater impact: How to plan your video project so it generates value far beyond the finished film.
Put your story to work: Extend your video's impact before, during, and after your event—creating more meaningful donor touchpoints.
Show Don't Tell: Gala Video Virtual Workshop
August 19, 2026, 10:00am - 12:00pm (PDT)
Location: On-Line
Price: $69
Limited to 12 Participants.
If you're a nonprofit hiring a video production partner or creating content in-house, this workshop will help you make more effective videos for your fundraising gala events. How can your nonprofit use video to help you reach your fundraising goals? How might you integrate video into your program so you stay in control?
This is a hands-on workshop that combines lecture, scenario challenges, group exercises, and Q&A.
Learning Outcomes:
Why “LIVE” videos are different for a captive audience: How to approach gala content within the context of a larger experience.
Video production budgeting and RFPs: How to assess your constraints in time, treasure, and talent.
Interviewing for Impact: How do interviews fail? How do you capture your subject with compassion and authenticity?
Previous Events
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, November 3, 2023
The Future of Nonprofit Video is Human
In a rapidly changing world, we always have to ask ourselves, what does the future hold? What do we want?
Reuben Herzl explains how human-centered content can creates deeper connections between nonprofits and their communities. Reuben shares specific tools and platforms that can be used to to onboard volunteers, train employees, build community and cultivate trust among donors.
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, November 2, 2023
Creating Powerful Videos for Fundraising Galas
Discover the process behind producing powerful documentary videos for gala fundraisers.
Learn how to find compelling characters and storylines that will help you reach your fundraising goals and resonate with your donors. Learn how to lean into your constraints and apply this process even if you’re on a limited budget and have to create the video yourself.
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, November 2, 2021
Compassionate Storytelling
Leveraging a beneficiary's story for fundraising or marketing can feel like exploitation. How might you move forward?
How do you address the inherent imbalance between the nonprofit organization and the individual storyteller? What are the best ways to engage participants throughout the story production process? How might we produce content that respects and acknowledges participants with dignity and empathy?
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, October 29, 2019
Video Production in your pocket
Use what you have to make more effective videos.
This presentation provides non-filmmakers with a basic understanding of the strategies and tactics behind shooting video content using nothing more than the phone in your pocket. Through multiple live demonstrations, this workshop unpacks the creative process and helps people feel empowered to do more with the tools they already have.