Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Purpose Overview: Purpose and objectives with summary statement of what you’re looking to do. Quick pre-RFP conversations are very helpful for getting better quality proposals.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Google provides some eligibility guidelines that will help you figure out if you qualify for their grants. Luckily, Google provides guidelines to help you stay compliant! Give Me a Summary Google Ad Grants is a fantastic resource for nonprofit organizations, especially if they’re looking for ways to raise their visibility online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NpTech Summary. JournaMarketing points to a blog post from Kayta's Nonprofit Marketing Blog called " Don't Speak Doglish " about clear communication guidelines. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP. I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

As you soak in the mantra above, we’ve dialed in on some guidelines for attracting major donors. Guidelines for Major Donors. Still, others may prefer high-level stats or an executive summary of what you accomplished in the last year. Go For The Donor (Not The Dollar). Instead, if you go for the donor, the funding will follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

" Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." " What do those guidelines look like? Do you read the summaries?

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals need to tell a moving story about your organization’s mission and vision while adhering to the stringent guidelines set forth by the grant maker. Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal. What do you write in a grant proposal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Intel Social Media Guidelines. Laural Papworth: 40 Social Media Policy Links 40 Guidelines for web 2.0. I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Blog Council Disclosure Best Practices Kit. IBM Social Computing Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Lori Jean Mantooth offers a summary. Follow the guidelines. These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session. We’ve all been there. Be clear and concise in your session description.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Work with the supervisor of each volunteer activity to draw up safety guidelines and training procedures. This letter is the first thing the volunteer will see, so make it count! What about working off site?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Utilizing those freshly established brand guidelines you have learned, you have really gone above and beyond the cause on this one.” In summary, coaching is a unique value added concept to a learning and development program. When in a coaching environment, do not be afraid to figuratively pat your students on the back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building. This, of course, requires having staffing guidelines for participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

(See Mark Hendrickson's post for a summary) A couple of nuggets: They use Twitter for customer service and encourage employees to tweet. Because the organization's culture really embodies the brand, there are no heavy handed specific guidelines on what employees can tweet. Notice how their avatars include the zappos identity?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2016

The matrix can be applied to requests for proposals and grant application guidelines. Project budget in summary form. This will serve as an analytical tool that will help you make quick decisions about which grant opportunities to pursue. How to Build a Grant Decision Matrix. Start by designing the matrix components.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I recommend that you begin your descent into the SEO rabbit hole at Google, via their guidelines for webmasters. With SEO and a proper conversion plan, search engine visitors can be converted into volunteers, donors and advocates for a nonprofit organization. And, whatever you do, stay away from blackhat SEO at all costs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The guidelines will also equip nonprofit leaders with the knowledge they need in order to actively engage their corporate and government partners in conversations about innovative forms of financing social service delivery. Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program at Rikers Island: Summary of Findings.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 4, 2009

If you want to get a good summary of that NYC panel, however, read Farra Trompeter 's guest-post on the Care2 Frogloop blog about Multi-Channel Fundraising, with a special eye towards this end-of-year fundraising season. David Neff shares the social media guidelines he helped develop for the American Cancer Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

You need to orient your learners to the journey ahead. It is importance to establish participant guidelines, especially around respect, maintaining privacy, and encouraging a spirit of sharing. The Session Design and Implementation. Here’s what we did: 1. Orienting the Group. The other orientation piece is the agenda.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The far-ranging conversation in the second week (a summary of the panel) touched on how interconnected and slippery the terms we use about the people who enjoy our organizations (and for that matter the ones we wished did.) Dean Krimmel suggested the guideline for too far was the mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In truth, the policy (a term I'm discouraged from using since we can't really create a policy about what employees do or say on their own time - we use "guidelines") is quite vague. Update 4/16 Blue Avocado (and some summaries here ). The more we tell our story, the more the public can understand our mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

To vote, read through the Voting Guidelines , and their handy Voter Guide , which includes short summaries of the 150+ nominated projects. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

This tool guides your team through the process of writing a remote working charter, defining the guidelines and behavior expected of people working at a distance. Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2016

Summary of a Grant Strategy. To create a to-do list for the grant calendar, refer to the application guidelines of each grantmaker. Create project description worksheets for each program that requires grant support, and run them through the grants research process. Apply Your Grant Strategy to Your Grant Calendar.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2019

We needed general guidelines for payment processing, membership requirements, and donor interactions. They receive a unique acknowledgement when they sign up and a gift summary at the end of each calendar year. This type of giving required brand new policies and procedures. They have their own spot on the Foundation’s donor display.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. We sat down and came up with some general guidelines for engaging with and connecting to people on our new media platforms (more on that in a minute) that help us decide what to respond to personally, and how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But, what also makes this program interesting is that the Foundation will not only be supporting citizen-centered efforts, but will be attempting to walk the talk of citizen-centered practice itself by involving the public in virtually every aspect of the process from creating guidelines to vetting proposals to making grant decisions.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

The guidelines are based on each organization’s size and mission. With your text fundraising tool, you can: Show appreciation by thanking them for their help Provide summary updates on your goal Put out a final call for donations Send a post-event survey to gather feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 Source: Philanthropy 2.0 research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. I'm using this post to roundup the reactions to the study and add some more context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

If you haven't been following the blogs are dead thread, Sonny Cloward in Vermont offers a great summary of this debate about whether blogs are dead or not. And Kurt Voelker responded by my question about the practice of blogish behavior with this: 6 Guidelines to Behaving Bloggishly (or How to be Discoverable). He adds his two cents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. Allan Benamer responded this week with some suggested guidelines for nonprofits to use for disclosure of security breaches Check this out! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. The foundation would fund differently by bringing grantees to the table to develop grantmaking guidelines, offering un-branded grantmaking to coalitions, and providing funds for research and innovation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

A general guideline in the commercial world is that you should spend 5% to 10% of your operating budget on IT, in order to remain as efficient as possible. P.S. There's a bullet point in the summary handout that says “Beware of RFPs.” We still believe technology can help create change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

disagree - issue with the term circuit rider - too technical -so many different client bases - can't have one set of standards -guidelines is a better word versus standards - can't standardize your services to meet standards -waste of our time, should be out there working. Dialogue needs to be in the center - from general support to sector.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When in doubt, check your financial policies and procedures, the FOA/RFP/NOFA, or the federal budgetary guidelines. GRANTS writing formula summary The GRANTS Writing Formula will give you the magic wand to write a successful grant proposal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Schedules greatly depending on organizations, teams, individuals and evolving public health safety guidelines, but here are some examples: Office Cohorts: This model is for larger organizations where rotating cohorts of people work in the office. You can then have a productive discussion about what people have already shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It isn’t going to work if you cut and paste, you need to tweak for each channel if you to engage people. “ How To Optimize Your Content for Top Social Networks ” offers some good guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Here’s summary of the key ideas: Avoid A Once and Done Approach, Think Of Your Content As Pieces of A Larger Whole. But, how to manage all that if you work for a smaller nonprofit where there may not be a full-time staff person devoted to content creation. Flickr Photo by drachenspinne.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Tips for Designing (or Redesigning) a Nonprofit Website The guidelines in this classic article can help you plan and design a polished, functional website that meets your organization's needs. Don't worry; this will be quick and painless.

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