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Why is Person First Language Important and 7 Ways You Can Start Using It Right Now

Whole Whale

We’re usually not taught to speak with person-first language. Person-first language is more inclusive of people with disabilities, centering someone’s humanity over their disability or condition. It may be a bit wordier, but it’s important to learn how to use person-first language and avoid its opposite, identity-first language.

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8 Types of Non-Inclusive Language To Avoid

Whole Whale

The Inclusivity Tool was designed to help content creators follow the best practices around using inclusive language. Many organizations have been working with marginalized populations for decades while the study of how language impacts culture is only in its infancy. Meaning: Use precise language, avoid jargon and idioms.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit Website’s Navigation

Nonprofits Source

Here are our top recommendations for generating effective CTAs: Make sure the language reflects the intended next step: There’s nothing more frustrating than being taken to a resource that doesn’t match up with the language of the CTA. Create alternative text for photos and offer transcripts and closed captions for videos.

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Five Critical Steps for Successful User Adoption

Association Analytics

Speak the Same Language In order to agree on a plan, your employees need to be using the same vocabulary when talking about your data. Alternatively, your organization’s stakeholders might already have names in mind, or want to hire additional outside help to avoid overwhelming current employees with additional work.

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Donation Form Best Practices: Avoiding the Donor Tipping Model

Qgiv

However, there is an alternative to donor tipping for organizations wary of asking their donors to tip fundraising platforms. Donor tipping uses transactional language When nonprofits establish the donor tipping model option on their donation forms, they use largely transactional language, which turns off potential donors.

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Google Alerts for Your Nonprofit: Why You Need Them and How to Set Them Up

Bloomerang

You can choose the sources you want to prioritize and even set things like language, region, and number of results you receive. You can change the settings to reflect how often you want notifications sent to you, what language you prefer, which specific locations to monitor, and what types of content you want to search. The best part?

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Turning the comms toolkit upside down

Candid

Let’s talk about the return on investment with the traditional approach and an alternative way of building out your library of materials that could result in greater benefit. We tailored one-sheets to our partners’ audiences and provided social media guidelines with general language about the campaign, encouraging partners to customize posts.