Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

By focusing on connecting with these donors, showing them how their investment in your cause is making a tangible impact, and offering alternative ways to get involved, you can support steady or increased retention at your organization. Clear, effective communication that articulates the nonprofit’s message and goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

such initiatives for a limited period of time to see if this method generates alternatives that may not have come to light through other means.

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America Ideas Change FAQ 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? We ask questions that will lead us to action. That’s what pushes us to improve.

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BoardAssist

MAY 20, 2014

Alternatively, does the mission of the organization state that certain investments should be excluded or others included? 8) Are the roles and responsibilities of the board trustees, investment committee members and staff properly articulated? Do donors have specific objections to certain kinds of investments?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down).

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief. The alternative, in most cases, is a lot of time, effort, and money poured into a website that either misses or ignores that context. If your aim as a social-change organization is to think big and change the world, you need to start with a brand strategy.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

In an articulate polemic Laura Quinn of Idealware lambastes what she calls the "tooth-fairy" idealism those who maintain that all content in the non-profit sector ought to be free. You need to capture the consumer with your free content and then extract value through alternate channels. it is a consumer capturer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

.'” Community foundations also are using “impact investing” that aims to address social and environmental problems by making alternative investments such as loans to nonprofits or allocations to socially responsible investments. ” Subscribe to the Index for monthly updates!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I'm going to quote the notes from David verbaitem because he has summarized the key points much better than I could ever articulate at this moment and my text notes suffered because I was attempting to incorporate video capture: All techniques (whether intentional or not) are part of our vocabulary as visual storytellers and communicators.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines page offers a list of provisions for all websites to adhere to in order to make web content more inclusive, including adding text alternatives, using color contrast, and properly sizing your on-page elements.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. Why question? So there's a second path, one that museums like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum follow. How do people understand it?

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Issue Design Question Museum 20

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. However, a few accessibility design best practices you might miss are: Alternative text and transcripts. Nonprofit and association website design is often understood subconsciously.

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Websites Nonprofit Interaction Instruction 75

Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

Pandora is a model for an alternative. Could I have articulated that at the start? You could have a personalized trip through the museum, enjoying an experience that is both highly responsive to your preferences and one which deepens your understanding and ability to articulate why you like what you like. I learned something!

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Collaboration Music Museum Articulate 20

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Here’s how to weave it into your modern fundraising approach: Complement, Don’t Compete: Instead of viewing direct mailers as an alternative to online fundraising, see them as complementary.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? The six topics are: How do you plan for the future?

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

This is because race-neutral alternatives, including class/income, have not proven to be as efficacious in addressing disparities. That is, when nonprofits pursue social change agenda in partnership with the communities, their funding partners must continue to articulate value for (and fund) this racial equity and racial justice work.

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