EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Make sure your ask is clear and to the point: Trade complex language for simple phrasing and remove jargon in order to make sure supporters understand your call to action. Their diversity in experiences, skillsets, passions, and viewpoints ensures that good missions get the brains and heart they deserve.

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Advocacy Nonprofit Training Train 207

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021? Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. National Public Radio (NPR).

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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. It has a minimal impact on the financial interests of the publishing industry. And it is within our reach.

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Copyright United States Library eBook 100

Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” Speaking your donors’ language — lose the jargon!

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Retention Donor Change Blackbaud 37

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. Today it’s 27%, and even lower in some industries. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!”

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Retention Donor Change eBook 55

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And I want to talk about an experience I had working with an advocacy organization. It’s how my brain works. How many people attended this event for the advocacy?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . A quarter century of going toe to toe with the tobacco and industry has proven the power of relentless advocacy to save lives in the U.S. I really want to make sure I get the language right.” Wasn’t that a powerful language?

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