Byte Technology

MARCH 25, 2015

Imagine this scenario: a recent transplant to an urban locale wishes to continue their previous endeavor of volunteerism at a meal center, homeless shelter or after-school reading program. Speak Their Language. Search engines love newly published content, and having a blog component to your site is a great way to boost your rankings.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. Gregory Ciotti wrote about the 5 most persuasive words in the English language and how “certain power words hold more sway over our decision making process than others.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. There is no shortage of highly talented leaders coming from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and many of them lead from within the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0 NpTech Talk.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

If you don’t have a media list of broadcast reporters and editors and print and blogging sites in your area, have a board member find that list from coalition partners or build it themselves. Not only are you building a relationship with the newsroom , but you are helping the media cover feel-good stories.

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Achieve

MARCH 30, 2016

This article originally appeared in Philanthropy News Digest’s blog, Philantopic. . While the typical solicitation often includes language from an organization’s mission and values statements, it rarely appeals to potential supporters with a unique and compelling proposition. In too many instances, the answer to that question is “no.”

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

New technology incorporating ChatGPT and other generative language tools can help you develop quality first drafts and will increasingly integrate with common productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Automate, and the G-suite. Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Give foreign language students and cultural club members the opportunity to share their knowledge and cultures with their peers and the wider school community with an “Around the World” virtual festival. John Center for Homeless Men. The post 49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 17, 2014

They feed the hungry and house the homeless. For example, you should use distinct language for: first-time donors. This post originally appeared on Amy’s blog and is reproduced here with her permission. Stop thinking of your donors as ATM machines and really focus on them as people. They don’t simply give money. They save lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. There is a category for traditional and social media and a couple of paragraphs in the report.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Your donors have probably seen the same type of language from nonprofit organizations and businesses alike regarding COVID-19. At this point, all the language around “these trying times” and “unprecedented needs” and how you’ve had to “pivot” to adjust are white noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

YouthTruth implements an online survey in multiple languages, whereas Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco uses paper surveys in English, Spanish, and Cantonese then enters results by hand into SurveyMonkey as part of Shared Insight’s Listen for Good initiative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

They aren’t interested in large-scale issues like ending homelessness — that goal feels too big. But providing meals and blankets for the homeless people in their community is more attainable. More importantly, avoid technical language or jargon. Donors don’t trust large organizations and can spot platitudes a mile away.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It has been translated into over 500 languages and its proclamation day of December 10th has been established as Human Rights Day. Founded by Edward and Janell Parker, the organization focuses on providing support for homeless, low income, and poverty-level households. On December 9, 2001, President George W.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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! John Center for Homeless Men hosted a virtual Raisin’ the Rent house party event in March 2021. Here’s what their event page looked like: 10. Request Demo.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In other words, should the elevator speech include language that refers to the role the donor plays in the organization? We house homeless women and children. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. If you’ll look on my blog, there’s a whole category of articles about direct mail.

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Achieve

APRIL 22, 2015

I worked for an organization whose mission was to break the cycle of homelessness in our community, and we were laser-focused on helping our clients lead independent lives free from any public support. This is tough to accomplish, because the causes of homelessness are complex as well as unique to each individual. That’s it.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As you write blog posts, social media posts, appeals, and newsletter articles, keep your message focused on your mission. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance. Give Families the Gift of a Place to Call Home. A Bench is Not a Bed .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. We assumed the digital space was all new.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. Service projects can be feeding the homeless, writing letters to inmates, doing an environmental clean up, and more!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Well, if y’all don’t know Sabrina, dang, she’s been blogging for us. You’re speaking my language. If you are, you know, like I said, if you’re a homeless shelter or anything with those sensitive confidentiality thing, tell the story from a different perspective. You got to check her out.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’ve been contributing to our blog, writing about donor acquisition, experts on both sides. But let’s say, you know, maybe you’ve just been talking to them about job placement because the job placement is really the thing that elevates the homeless and helps them get off the streets and all of that. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 16, 2019

Because most organizations speak in hazy, nebulous, say-nothing language, concrete language will set you apart and give you a discrete brand identity. And that’s why concrete language is so powerful: It makes you immune to user confusion. We save homeless dogs”—you ask your audience to argue with you. It’s not concrete.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. News and blog content. An effective blog functionality also includes frequent news and events updates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. When we met her, Honorata was homeless. Related blog posts Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International by Kristin Ivie on the Case Foundation Blog. She was a sexual slave.

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