M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Reading time: 12 minutes Soon after I learned the rules of chess, I started playing a lot of games against myself. It never really worked, though. What works best is to ask yourself specific questions that help you see your own writing through fresh eyes and spot opportunities for revision that will make your copy sing.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

Yeah, it would be nice to have your organization’s logo on the tote bags, but if money to purchase tote bags isn’t in the budget this year, the donated ones will work just fine. A tiny nonprofit was launching a capital campaign to buy land and build a modular structure to meet the needs of the immigrants they served. Five bedrooms!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 2, 2019

Earlier research focused more on improvements of procedural documents, structures, policies and bylaws. As one author put it, “earlier works examined how the governance game was organized; we concentrated on how it was actually played.” This involves analyzing how you are doing things, what is working and what isn’t.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But today, many people think of a great workplace as not even one specific place at all, with many employers opting for a permanent remote work setup after a trial proved prosperous during the pandemic. And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do we complete work, training, and more on one strained WiFi connection? The mass migration to working from home, new terms like “social distancing” and “N95/KN95 masks,” and Zoom-based schooling are all buzzwords. You’ve had to adjust to this pandemic-era lifestyle in both your personal and working life— and do so quickly.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

If your organization has flexible work systems in place, then a "carpocalypse" such as this won't have nearly the destructive impact that it otherwise could on your team's productivity. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset. Remote Work. What does remote work look like exactly?

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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

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Mapping out a fundraising event, especially while taking COVID into consideration, can feel like a game of psychological chess between yourself and the world. At Qgiv, we guide our work by keeping our core values top of mind, and one of those values is empathy. But, how exactly do you stay one step ahead? Sound familiar?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The cornerstone of their presentation rested in the necessity for nonprofits to think strategically about communications plans, working with a definition of strategy by David La Piana: "Strategy is a coordinated set of actions designed to create and sustain a competitive advantage in achieving a nonprofit's mission.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

And a similar question) I often feel that if I’m not stressed, I’m not trying/working hard enough. Seema) In some museum work places, the culture of stress is tied to perceived effort, as you mention. I’d encourage you to try to remember work is a marathon. See your de-stressing efforts as a form of improving your work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The work you do may be fascinating to donors or may have hidden value that you have overlooked. Plug donor skills into the work. Show the work, don’t just tell. Touch the work. Quarterly donor updates or briefings about the organization and its work. Program-Related Perks. help to evaluate resumes of kids).

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. You'll learn to embrace technology and find out how to put it to work for your institution. Accounting / @nysscpa. Accounting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

on a gray day with drinks just 30 minutes away, philanthropic communicators enjoyed the social media game (photo by Thom Clark). Tech in Maine where I did the beta version of the social media strategy game for Pop!Tech Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. Even at 4 p.m. Tech Fellows.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Take your fundraising game to the next level with a dedicated fundraising website. Here’s how it works. Here at CauseVox, we found that upping your content marketing game can increase your donations by 20%! Gamification is the use of game mechanics to influence your audience’s actions in non game-related situations.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests. Visitors co-opt institutional facilities every day for their own agendas, whether to impress a date, bond with family, or work on their photography skills.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Make no mistake: This part of the process is a lot of work, and it can be very tempting to skip it and jump into event planning. A major fundraising gala the week of the Christmas holiday might be tough for some nonprofits to pull off, but it might work in communities that don’t observe Christmas. What’s going on in your community?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary. Marketing & Communications. 10/24/2016.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And so that is my prayer primary rule to not only work with our high value donors, but also oversee the strategy with the team. And so, 40 years later, we’ve worked in 60 countries historically and been able to do surgeries on over 500,000 patients. You know, whenever people hear where I work, they say, oh, you guys do surgery.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 29, 2016

For a while, things go very well and it seems you’ve landed a high value, hard working board. One or two of your board members starts becoming difficult to work with. The director becomes difficult to please, unreasonable, argumentative, or just no longer wants to work as part of a team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. They had hundreds of people exercising on the field at a Twins Baseball game and the contest finalists throwing out the first pitch. We worked with Grassroots Solutions who helped with a grassroots organizing strategy.

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Socialbrite

APRIL 29, 2020

Understanding what every content type is for will allow the nonprofit to better structure their strategy that will make the content’s impact bigger. Sometimes you have to extend a hand and work with others. a website dedicated to the joys of big-game hunting probably won’t be suitable). Collaborations and partnerships.

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Nonprofit Podcast Websites Search 98

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

So, for those of you who don’t know Big Duck, we are a communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. Advomatic builds and supports websites for nonprofits and also works with a lot of great organizations, some of whom are in the room. We’re good to go? Steven: Yeah, it looks great. Sarah: Okay, great.

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Build Video New York City Communication 125

Bloomerang

APRIL 28, 2021

Here are the first five common issues to address — ones I’ve seen and even experienced in my own working life in the nonprofit sector. Your donors will respect long game investment, as much as the instant satisfaction of providing the core mission. . goes as an unstated policy and counterproductive policy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following is an excerpt from Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism (2021) by Phil Jones, reprinted with permission from Verso Books. 1 The worker remains unaware of what is taking place above them, just as they remain unaware of the purpose of their work. A drone hovers hornet-like above Sa?o

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2017

Cause minded individuals are now taking the initiative to create their own change and rally support…and their efforts are working. Some of the best examples are perhaps advocacy campaigns that have initiated concrete policy outcomes or shifted public opinion beyond financial and geographical limitations.

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Forum One

MARCH 14, 2010

So what if I put forth this similar-sounding bit of copy: " announcing the Obama administration, with new policies, new administrators, and a new corporate culture based on making all content open and accessible," Anyone get the chills? Viola: enter the Open Government Initiative. Information has been a form of currency.

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Open Government Impact Culture 57

Forum One

MARCH 14, 2010

So what if I put forth this similar-sounding bit of copy: " announcing the Obama administration, with new policies, new administrators, and a new corporate culture based on making all content open and accessible," Anyone get the chills? Viola: enter the Open Government Initiative. Information has been a form of currency.

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Open Government Impact Culture 40

Forum One

MARCH 14, 2010

So what if I put forth this similar-sounding bit of copy: " announcing the Obama administration, with new policies, new administrators, and a new corporate culture based on making all content open and accessible," Anyone get the chills? Viola: enter the Open Government Initiative. Information has been a form of currency.

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Open Government Impact Culture 36