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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues?

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Nonprofit Web Design Process: Summary

Connection Cafe

User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Information Architecture.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 5: Visual Design

Connection Cafe

Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. User Research. Surveys and Interviews. Methodology.

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What’s a Persona?

Connection Cafe

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. User Research. Each phase will vary a lot depending on the type of project, timeline, budget, etc. To put it simply, a persona is a fictional representation of one of your constituents.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 3: Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. User Research. Surveys and Interviews. Stay tuned! Introduction.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 2e: Personas

Connection Cafe

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Purposes for personas include: Help synthesize and articulate what we learn about constituents through user research. User Research. Surveys and Interviews.

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