Forum One

JUNE 15, 2022

You might think, if we are so frequently wrong about how risky things are and how confident we can be in our assessment, then why articulate risk at all? What level of detail is really needed to meet those goals? Simple, working framework. Articulating impacts of delays when they are considered. Not much, really.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It may also be a bit intimidating—creating work we are proud of that WOWs our team or client and checks off all needs can be challenging. . We ask the team to identify the most important message the illustration must convey and work to understand who needs to receive this message. To learn more about our design work, click here.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As you build out your appeal, think of the tools, stories, and language your fundraisers might need, and put this together in a toolkit to make sure it’s as easy as possible for them to fundraise on your behalf. Use language from your appeal to set up default appeal content for an individual’s personal fundraising page.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

For some, these feelings form into a plan, a new set of goals, and a refreshed mindset throughout the year ahead. We have different feelings, perspectives, and approaches to our lives and our work. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work. At our core we are all human.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

The goal of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to present a project in the context of the organization and its goals so that great vendors can submit the best possible proposals. Consider asking other people they have worked with. . For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have?

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

They believe in the long-term impact of your work and may wish to create a legacy for their philanthropic efforts. They may be evaluating their financial and philanthropic goals, and thinking of ways to leave a lasting impact. If possible, demonstrate how a legacy gift can help achieve the donor and nonprofit’s shared goals.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For associations and other organizations with memberships, your members are the life force of your work. It’s a campaign geared toward targeting and attracting people interested in the organization’s mission, goals, and activities. Goals help you measure your success, track your progress, and get clarity on what you hope to achieve.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Here are some benefits you can expect to see from proactive change management: Decreased resistance – By communicating regularly with all stakeholders and providing them with tools and resources to work through change, everyone involved and impacted is more likely to participate actively in project planning. Offer time off.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Otherwise, it’s just a fun meeting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

These engagements may include website builds, online marketing work, website integration projects and much more. A ‘Web Engagement’ is a broad term that simply refers to any occasion where a person or business seeks outside consultation, including swot analysis , assistance or collaboration in achieving online goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. One of those conferences would be the Personal Democracy Forum.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

Many nonprofits who are going through a website redesign on a tight budget want to know the best ways to find and hire a web vendor, especially ones that will understand their goals and challenges. For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have? How will billing work? Experience. Aesthetics.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

The people generate the movement, spread the rallying cry of the message, and depend on one another to meet the collective’s goals in addressing the social issue at hand. If you’re like a lot of our clients, you’re starting to work on (or at least think about) your year-end fundraising appeals. That’s a lot of work!

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

How to improve operational inefficiencies that are stopping your nonprofit from reaching its goals. Ask yourself the following questions to narrow down your research objectives: What are your goals as an organization, from both a mission-driven and operational perspective? All questions should track back to those goals.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language. To be safe, have no more than three objectives per goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and inspire alignment,’ said Benioff. With this mindset and approach to technology we need to move to the other end of the “social” spectrum where the goal is to create a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

If aren’t failing, you are either deluded, blind, or failing so hard you’re blinded and deluded by your work. (I Practically, being audience-centered touches every aspect of staff work. The classes sold, but it took me away from what was the real goal of our program, connecting people to collections through action.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact!

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

It is the glue that ensures a site's design, content, and code work together in harmony to express the entirety of an organization's mission, strategy, activities, and impact. by a framework that emphasizes collaboration and establishes clear goals for the team. These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the Nonprofit Centers Network , we are asked about nonprofit collaboration frequently because the shared space centers who make up our 170+ membership were often created with the goal of bringing nonprofits together to collaborate, reduce expenses and find smarter ways to work together. Ask yourself why you want to collaborate.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So if you have to leave early, or maybe get another appointment, or maybe you’re working from home and a toddler barges in something like that, like me, don’t worry. She works over at CCS. Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. Well, thank you so much.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

At Qgiv, we guide our work by keeping our core values top of mind, and one of those values is empathy. We know the ultimate goal of any nonprofit fundraiser is to raise as much money for the mission as possible. Here’s why you should be! Why not give yourself as much of an advantage as you can? Future you will be happy you did.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. This works best when: Visitors have a clear understanding of the overall goal for the project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. And so I'd like to share some of the story of how we have fought for inclusion, what it changed about our work, and some tips on how to fight. So start with a goal. Articulate it clearly.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here are ten tips on preparation, evaluating proposals , and red flags to watch out for in working with digital vendors: Seek productive conversations as a starting point. Have they worked on any projects in the past? Ask the IT, Communications, Marketing and other departments they have worked with on web and technology projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. In January, as part of a series of place-making workshops facilitated by the Project for Public Spaces , we worked with a local dad to coordinate a workshop explicitly for kids (full writeup here ). Here's a synopsis: Participation 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

As passionate as we all are about our causes and their corresponding missions, from the inside looking out, sometimes we lose sight of the actual goal of our communications. A good place to start is by making sure that our communications and branding fulfill one or more of the following goals: Move people to a specific action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. The fact-finding public hearing and request for comments seemed to have two purposes: both to understand how Chafee is working and to report back to WIPO about the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

They want articulated goals and expectations. This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. Give people something to work for.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

How do you sum up your organization’s work in a single sentence? The goal is to capture the essence of your organization’s work. That means their mission statement isn’t working for them. So, let’s talk about what a good mission statement looks like so you can make sure yours is working for you. Well, good news!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

She works with CEOs. She works with teams, boards, and has a really cool methodology that I hope you all explore on her website later on. Steven: Looks like it might be working. They were doing awesome work, but their revenue was stuck. Okay, so I’m going to give you a quick flyover today how my methodology works.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. Gender equity work in math and science isn’t exactly woo-worthy. What’s so special about the GMSP? How dov you reach today’s girl?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

He is the most enthusiastic person in the world doing this work. Here’s how this is going to work. So our goal is to be done at the top of the hour, but if we’re having more questions, we’ll just stay here and answer them till you’re done asking questions. Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Such a goal, and the language used to articulate it, can be hard for many people to process. In our years of testing fundraising appeals, we’ve found that potential supporters frequently don’t understand or respond to messages asking them to support such a wide-ranging goal. Simply put, it’s too daunting.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

part 1: Crafting Your Appeal To get started, it’s helpful to begin by splitting your plan up into the classic components: “what”, “why”, “how”, “when”, and “where” What – the goal The first step is to set a goal. Make sure your goals are within reach.

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