Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. Here are some of the reasons nonprofit organizations pass up the opportunity to share about their work with fundraising videos: “We don’t have the time or expertise to create, edit, and share videos.”

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

See how that works? Look, fundraising is about connecting people who care with work that matters to them. They might do the work themselves if they had time, but they don’t, so, they give money to you because that’s a good way for them to get the work done. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Examples of automated email sequences include: Introductions.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent). Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Alternative Supports (<1 percent).

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Examples of automated email sequences include: Introductions.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

It never really worked, though. I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Or, not only that.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. So in this case, the conflict would be that this family is very poor and both parents have to work very early in the morning. Amit and Priya both leave for work very early in the morning, so Fatima is on her own to get ready for school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The post offers some recommendations to nonprofits and activists about how to avoid having bots (evil bots) disrupt their activism and creative ways they should be thinking about deploying automation in service of social justice, especially if the nature of their work might make them likely targets.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You probably have potential fundraising ambassadors who are already engaged in your work. And how do you get them busy, working on your behalf? For example: College, Here We Come!, Talk to them about ways to frame the organization’s work, especially if the work you do can be sensitive and complicated.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my experience working with nonprofit clients, I’ve learned how much people want to be able to have one icon or image that shows the whole who, what, why all at once. The simplicity of the McDonald’s golden arches is a great example of what’s called the “highway test”. It truly doesn’t need to do all the work! It makes sense.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my experience working with nonprofit clients, I’ve learned how much people want to be able to have one icon or image that shows the whole who, what, why all at once. The simplicity of the McDonald’s golden arches is a great example of what’s called the “highway test”. It truly doesn’t need to do all the work! It makes sense.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Truly any project that is specific and requires a significant amount of money to pull off could work as a capital campaign project. Get some estimates to see what the work would likely cost. An example of Pledge Now, Pay Later. Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Since then, we’ve been hard at work bringing together the wide range of tech, tools, and services we all offer, including case management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising and engagement, as well as some functionality from our friends at Mobilize. Here’s a look! Engage your community.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Take another example : your organization is ramping up for a big event. Let’s take the first example above: political advocacy. Our second example involved matching event attendees from a ticketing system like Eventbrite with donor history from a donor management system like DonorPerfect. Using APIs for Political Advocacy.

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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. Below, we show one objective example.

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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. During my time working as a nonprofit fundraiser, one of my favorite ways to tackle event planning was to visualize core elements of the event and map out how to achieve the experience I wanted guests to have. Sound familiar?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Over the past several months I've had the pleasure of working with Convio's Engineering team on a number of new features for Luminate Online. If you haven't ever written one, the same origin policy essentially says that client-side languages such as JavaScript are allowed to make requests only within the same domain. And proud of it.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Join us as we take a deep dive to explain: What SEO is and how it works. What Is SEO And How Does It Work? Creating strategies around these four pillars work to establish the foundation of your marketing plan. For example, Place use to be limited to a physical storefront and the value of its location measured in foot traffic.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you know whom you want to consume your infographic, you’re able to tailor the language, imagery, focus, and key points used to appeal to this target audience. I recently forgot to consider the platforms I wanted the latest Blackbaud Next Generation of American Giving infographic to work on. Should it work well on a tablet?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted by a co-worker or a toddler, if you’re working at home or something, don’t worry, we will get all those good things in your hands later on today. And now my clients who I work with regularly raise 10k, six figures and seven-figure gifts unrestricted from individuals.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? It’s not your script. Johnson & Johnson.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

While your organization accounts work to build an authentic community, share your story, and advance your brand strategy, playing the game as it was intended (person-to-person) can drive even more meaningful engagement with your cause. . Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? 5) Provide the necessary tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Possible Working Titles: 1. Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. Analytics This!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. I’ve worked in direct services, operations and executive leadership. .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a fundraiser and a marketer, your work tends to overlap. The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. When it came to working on Steps for Autism, their marketing skills played a huge role. The secret is identifying where you need support and where you feel confident doing the work yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? It’s not your script. Johnson & Johnson.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If you’re like any of the nonprofit clients we work with, you are committed to making the world a better place by furthering your organization’s mission. Without financial support through federal funding, grants, and generous donors it’s impossible to continue your important work (and make a big impact). . Check out this example.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So, Lori, let me stop sharing my slides here and you can bring up your beautiful slides and see if it works. Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. Well, in 1990, I got a chance to work for the governor of Minnesota and I realized I didn’t want that job.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. All the work we’re doing, whether it’s the environment, no matter what your mission is, we’re doing this.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

With any design, there is some guess-work involved on the part of the designer so getting a reaction from an end-user may reveal some different options for your design. Examples of the tasks we might test are: Where would someone click first on the homepage? the design decisions you’ve made along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

As part of this deep dive, I’ve been getting lots of inspiration from the start up and innovation movements here in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere), especially the work of Peter Sims – Little Bets. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.”

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Work smarter, not harder. For example, we use MailChimp to automate email workflows, list population from contact forms, as well as scheduling emails in advance. For example, an infographic could be a great way to earn backlinks to your site while building brand awareness to your mission. Conclusion.

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