The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Your beneficiaries, staff, supporters – they all help you paint an authentic picture of your work. Speak Clearly, Speak with Conviction Steer clear of that murky pool filled with jargon and overly elaborate language. A well-articulated proposal? Use real-life examples, bring your impact to life with heartfelt testimonials.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

We have different feelings, perspectives, and approaches to our lives and our work. It was also the year that most companies and CEOs reaffirmed their commitment to the importance of environmental, social, and governance impact work. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. Leaders also need to work at three levels of network: the personal, the organizational, and the ecosystem in which the organization lives.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Grants can be a wonderful vehicle to fund a new program or expand an existing one; however, if your organization is new to the “grant world,” you may be unfamiliar with the work involved with both applying and managing grants. While not all, most grantmakers will require this designation for their grant recipients.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Consider asking other people they have worked with. . For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have? Which staff will actually be working on the project? Do all of the web projects they’ve recently worked on have a similar aesthetic? How will invoicing work? References (1<5).

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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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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. Craft a clear and compelling message Develop a case for support , a concise and persuasive message to articulate the importance of legacy giving.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

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! Chances are yours isn’t the only organization working to address or solve your particular issue. why does it do the work it does)? How does your organization approach its work?

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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. Build a marketing plan to promote the membership drive and include language that highlights the value proposition you defined in the previous step.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have? Confirm which staff will actually be working on the project. Do all of the web projects they’ve recently worked on have a similar aesthetic? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? How will billing work?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. The point is to know WHY you’re meeting and what you want to walk away with.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

With a platform for shared understanding of outcomes definition, how to measure progress, and a standardized language for giving, foundations and nonprofits are able to collaborate for change more effectively. This helps provide a platform for foundations and nonprofits to partner more closely on achieving intended outcomes together.

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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 in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. A is for alignment. L is for the leadership that does that.”. I is for impact.

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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. From the first time you meet, try to get a sense of whether you speak the same language. You may not be able to answer all of these questions from day one, but you will soon work out whether the ‘fit’ is right for you.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld also suggests that organizations move from classic corporate-speak to more natural, emotional language. Getting to natural, emotional language is possible by asking staff about their proudest moments fulfilling your organization's mission.

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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. These are N arrowed objectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. Some need to conduct programs in multiple languages. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Some organizations need to focus on 3rd graders.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

In six years, I received over $160,000 in federal, state, and university grants to support my research, present and network at conferences, and conduct field work—all on a relatively niche topic (contemporary French literature, film, and graphic novels). Do you have adequate staff and time to devote to grant applications?

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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. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. We didn’t give ourselves time to create a collective language.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

John Udell articulates a reason why screencasting is really cool: In my talk I suggested that this kind of unconscious transmission of tacit knowledge may be a key rationale for the practice of pair programming. Two programmers, working side by side, exchange tacit knowledge by osmosis.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Sometimes this means providing participating fundraisers with stock language to use in emails, sample social media posts, reminders to send asks to friends and family and more. A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise.

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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. These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. Putting It to Work. Again, sounds exciting, but how does it actually work?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

If you’re struggling to articulate your objectives, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant early in your market research process. It encourages respondents to provide their honest opinion, without including language that would sway the respondent to answer in any particular manner. But, your work isn’t done yet!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives. If a four-year-old can articulate the design message of an exhibit and respond to it accordingly, surely an adult can as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to teach our computers to do our work for us. You don’t need to know a single programming language. You need to be able to clearly articulate the need for automation and new low-code/no-code platforms, identify the expenses involved, and define the returns you and your organization can expect to see. And the best part?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. It means incorporating learning as part of doing the work.

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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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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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Candid

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, I also think it is essential for organizations (and researchers) to carefully consider their BIPOC-led definitions and articulate the rationale for them. From a diversity, equity, and inclusion standpoint, being clear about language and identity is important. However, the term BIPOC is not always ideal—e.g.,

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. Whether visitors' work will be used to create an artwork, a dataset, or an exhibit, the solicitation is directly tied to an intended product. What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems?

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