Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

One final bit of context: we recognize that language is subject to regional differences as well, meaning that even though we are sticking to English here, there are still undoubtedly many English words that we might have missed or not addressed. Differently-abled. Disappointed? Does that/this make sense?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2014

How can you tell the difference between these two people? They are likely to use similar language--language of disinterest--in describing what turns them off. Sometimes the difference isn''t even apparent to the person speaking. Sometimes the difference isn''t even apparent to the person speaking.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

These are fictional representations of different audience segments. Then, strategize ways to match your language, tone, and style to your audience’s interests. Options to read your content in different languages depending on your audience’s needs. Simple language free of jargon. Who do they follow on social media?

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Candid

APRIL 26, 2021

It’s the idea that anyone in the world, regardless of location, language, disability, or platform, can participate or engage with something. Web accessibility is the idea that everyone can use all internet content, regardless of location, device, language, or ability. Accessibility by itself refers to the “ability to access.”

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. The language in the mission statement should feel the same way that the brand feels. Concise, Powerful Language Your list of brand words should contain descriptive adjectives and verbs. Take, for example, “we do.”

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Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2023

The good news is that there are alternative solutions that can help you address specific issues or objectives without the need for a complete website overhaul. The good news is that there are alternative solutions that can address your nonprofit’s specific concerns without the need for a full website redesign.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But it is a different way of thinking for most grantmakers, so it can be difficult to know where to start. There are different approaches to this conundrum of who decides. Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. Whose lives are being impacted by your funding?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. Thousands of students with differing learning styles and language requirements can also benefit greatly from accessible books. There are some 7.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Many people would use different language for it. Some people might language this vast source of possibility as God. Some people might language this vast source of possibility as God. Others might language it quite differently. But there is, along side it, evidence of how things could look, and be different.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Many people would use different language for it. Some people might language this vast source of possibility as God. Some people might language this vast source of possibility as God. Others might language it quite differently. But there is, along side it, evidence of how things could look, and be different.

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Media Cause

JULY 19, 2022

Screen readers identify different words with capitalization. Write in plain language that users of all audiences and cognitive abilities can comprehend. . Use alternative text (or alt text) in your images. Always use #CamelCase for hashtags and social media handles, which capitalizes the first letter of each word.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

For instance, you might create personas for different age groups, such as young, middle-aged, and elderly visitors. Northside Hospital, a network of hospitals in Atlanta, offers a convenient series of links on its homepage that appeal to different visitor intentions. Then, group individuals based on shared characteristics.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

Thorough QA can make a huge difference in a successful launch. When updating the DNS, which is the process in which servers tell the internet where new website living, there is a period in which the site will alternate between the new and old site. Test test test! We cannot stress this enough!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

The inability to create a variety of different contexts in our lives including different social roles, relationships, activities and goals. In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

This includes the type of language you use, the message you send, and the visual representation of your organization. For instance, you might show half of your audience one version of your donation page and the other half a different version. Include alternative text on images.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This can be done in many different ways, such as hosting the event using live-streaming services or converting the event content into videos for an email sequence. In fact, leveraging your donor data may be the difference between event success and failure, regardless of whether the event is virtual or not.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This can be done in many different ways, such as hosting the event using live-streaming services or converting the event content into videos for an email sequence. In fact, leveraging your donor data may be the difference between event success and failure, regardless of whether the event is virtual or not.

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Database Virtual Donor Registration 52

sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

For instance, you might create profiles for different age groups, such as young, middle-aged, and elderly visitors. Northside Hospital, a network of hospitals in Atlanta, offers a convenient series of links on its homepage that appeal to different visitor intentions.

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Websites Organization Tips Map 76

CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

When making your ask, be precise, respectful, and keep your language easy for the donor to digest. Alternatively, if there’s another person (like a spouse) that needs to be in on the conversation, offer to involve them. You’ll want to confirm the donor’s interest in your cause or project and then see if a change in timing helps (e.g.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Just make sure your language emphasizes the safety and wellbeing of attendees in a positive way. You can use Facebook Live (or other streaming services like Twitch ) to showcase different activities. Creating unique online donation forms for different virtual events, acts, or funds is easy.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

State boundaries more like digital country borders protecting State residents data differently. If you were paying close attention when GDPR came around in 2018 and your organization is confidently GDPR-compliant , you are probably in good shape beyond some updates to privacy policy language.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Call-to-action language . Tip: Remember not to overwhelm your website with call-to-action language to the point where it feels too “in-your-face.” Be mindful of things like having alternative text in form fields for mobile users (which will usually be shorter), and making form fields tab friendly for computer users.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Follow up on a different marketing channel, such as social media. As you use these opportunities to build your relationships with your major donors, you’ll want to gather some specific information about them, including: Why they give to your organization rather than to a different nonprofit The depth of their connection is to your cause.

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

The point of this experiment was to catch people’s attention with the friendly language and statement nobody could possibly disagree with, then make the “big” ask of signing up for our mailing lists (using what’s known as the Foot-in-the-Door technique). Variable 2: Language. Our Method. Variable 1: Teaser. We fired up another test.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s also much easier to target and personalize your message to different demographics, making your marketing strategy for fundraising far more effective. What are the different ways to fundraise online? Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Peer pressure A commonly used tactic in political campaigns and school playgrounds, this technique (alternately referred to as “social pressure”) harnesses a supporter’s desire to fit in with their community. Taking a little extra time to add a personal touch can make all the difference, for political campaigns and nonprofits alike.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

The quibble is that this "sector" is really a whacky collection of radically different organizations. Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? The alternative is fragmentation and balkanization, which is no alternative at all.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. People learn in different ways, and in an eLearning, the human element is removed causing the need for content to be taught in a variety ways in one sitting. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges. Adaptability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I know this seems completely contradictory to current communication trends, but that’s exactly the time you want to do something different to get noticed. However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. Send handwritten notes to donors and supporters. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Projects fail when all participants are on different pages: vague or different ideas of what the goals are; different levels of commitment; poor understanding of the deadlines; and poorly set expectations. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Matthews has authored many papers on these issues, but in 2004 she penned a particularly interesting article in the Third World Quarterly titled “ Post-development theory and the question of alternatives: A view from Africa.” In it, she examines the idea of alternatives to development (commonly referred to as post-development theory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What’s the difference between managing online community, customer service, and social media? As an alternative, create a "freshman lounge" where new members can go to easily find information they need and others who can help them. The topic questions and responses are outlined below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

To demonstrate the framework, he had do a warm up exercise with everyone closing our eyes and asking us to describe different parts of the room we were in: what colors are the chairs, what kinds of light fixtures, how many windows, etc. We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three. Of course, we messed up.

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