Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I was also unaccustomed to having to find all my own resources; I had spent the previous 15 years of my career working in higher education with access to a university research library, enterprise platform subscriptions, and myriad other resources. I’d taken it for granted that these resources were just there.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Once this is determined, it’s time to get researching. We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, their values, and their concerns. Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal?

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JUNE 1, 2024

This requires substantial market research and should include conversations with your audiences through surveys, interviews, or even focus groups. The valuable learnings you’ll gain will help update and inform your advocacy strategies.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

User research is at the forefront of our designs, not only to understand audience needs but also to inspire passion and care for the work we create. In the discovery phase, two research methods we use are “netnography” and user focus groups. The inspiration from Introspective Innovations has stayed with me, for months later.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s another problem you may encounter: Let’s say you can clearly define what you want to do with your campaign and why, so you jump into the planning process, skipping key steps like a feasibility study and prospect research and cultivation. Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. These E-books, research, and articles will get you up to speed. What about your nonprofit? AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

The previous 15 years of my career, I worked in higher education with access to a research library, enterprise platform subscriptions, and myriad other resources. They taught me about researching funders, finding grant opportunities, and making connections in the fundraising and grantmaking landscape.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 15, 2018

Product Feedback Group members will receive email invites to various research studies including interviews, usability tests, surveys, and more. Interviews. That’s why Product Managers conduct 1 on 1 interviews with customers when they start a new project. We call this the ‘product discovery phase’. Usability Tests.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Mission statement: The mission of St. Hold interviews.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Once this is determined, it’s time to get researching. We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, what their values are, and what are their anxieties or concerns. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. Our purposes for using Analytics as User Research are: To learn about current visitors to the website. Research Questions. User Research. Overall site visits.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. What sold us on Big Duck's Brandraising was the time and attention they were spending on research and deep understanding of what makes an organization tick inside and out.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. Web Courseworks’ Three-Phased Learning Business Approach. The three-phased approach that Web Courseworks follows includes: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Research bears it out – even the mere contemplation of a Plan B statistically reduces the probability Plan A will ever materialize. I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. Higgins : Forget Plan B! The reason is energy leakage.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. As we move forward into the next phase of our organization’s growth, I wanted to take a moment to share my vision for our fundraising efforts and the critical role that each of you plays in achieving our goals.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

To create a sitemap, we begin with the documents produced during the Content Strategy phase. Ideally, we’ll have some insight into user needs thanks to the research we conducted in earlier phases of the project such as Surveys and Interviews or Personas. User Research. Surveys and Interviews. Methodology.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Information Architecture.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2016

New research from Achieve investigates millennials’ ongoing cause engagement behaviors during a presidential election year. Today Achieve, in partnership with the Case Foundation, released the second wave of research from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report. The second wave of data surveyed millennials from June through August 2016.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. We like to work on mood boards in parallel with the User Research and Information Architecture phases so that the aesthetic is already defined by the time the Wireframes are complete. User Research.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Kanopi refers to this process as the donor journey — the steps donors take to go from initial awareness to research to donating. This is also the time when many organizations host their year-end gala or another major event to drive even more donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. He also notes that he doesn't log with markers, but edits as he is listening to the interview. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. User Research. Each phase will vary a lot depending on the type of project, timeline, budget, etc. To put it simply, a persona is a fictional representation of one of your constituents.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

– "This interview is part of our "Social Citizen Sightings" series, in which we highlight how people are using their creativity, idealism, and digital fluency to support their causes every day. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. Once we’ve determined the Content Strategy for the website, we then move into the Information Architecture phase where we decide on the structure and placement of the content for the new site.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

In 2011, NTEN, with support from the Knight Foundation , convened the CTOs for Good forum and conducted follow-up interviews with the participants in order to document and share the group’s experiences and challenges. A deliberate, cautious, phased approach to migrating applications and data to the cloud.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s best to get buy-in on wireframes first so we can truly focus on creative look and feel during the visual design phase of the project. User Research data from Analytics , Surveys and Interviews , Personas , and Usability Tests can help identify what kinds of related content and promo items will be most appropriate to display on each page.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Purposes for personas include: Help synthesize and articulate what we learn about constituents through user research. User Research. Surveys and Interviews.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We’re still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally “out there&# and is well-received. What sold us on Big Duck’s Brandraising was the time and attention they were spending on research and deep understanding of what makes an organization tick inside and out.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. You will also want to determine if your idea is viable at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. The next phase was crowd-sourced rating process - where anyone could be a curator evaluating the aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. Here's a summary of the impressive participation stats for each phase.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DonorSearch — Top Fundraising App for Wealth Screening DonorSearch is a prospect research and fundraising tool that can help your organization learn more about your major donors. Keyword research. This app made our list because a grant database helps organizations quickly and easily apply to receive legitimate funding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. But on top of that, he did a lot of census data research. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. For each phase, there are specific criteria and indicators that an organization will develop. We are tracking progress against a baseline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2005

If you want to help shape the next phase of the NPTECH tag experiment, here's your change! Peter posted the announcement at NPTech Phase 2. I'm going right over there because I was thinking of doing some interviews with some of the users for an interview feature and this could be a way to help support some of the research needs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

Check out the interview below to learn more about how My Colorado Project is empowering local change! If you do your generational research you’ll find an awful lot of evidence to suggest that this is how younger donors want to get involved. How did My Colorado Project come about, how did it get started?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Major giving and prospect research support. Because of this, you must understand your goal for the partnership before researching consultants to ensure you find the right one for your team. Research top providers. Research some top consultants who provide the particular services you need. Marketing strategy development.

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