Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. The good news is that many tools are incredibly user-friendly, and experimentation can be one of the best ways to learn what works for you. But if you’re just starting out, you’re not behind! Copyediting.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Your online giving form is the primary instrument you use to process a donation, and it’s also the key tool you use for collecting valuable information about your donors. In digital philanthropy, it has never been more important to seek out and embrace innovations, especially innovations in online donation forms.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

An effective nonprofit blog is an indispensable marketing tool. 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. What other blogs do they like to read?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Undoubtedly, the tools we use to shape the world end up shaping us.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I wanted to share some social media tools and nuggets I’ve come across recently. EasyChirp – it is an alternative to Twitter but aimed to be used by people with disabilities who may be using access technologies. Sadly, their website uses disability language that is not person-first.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools. You want to use tools that your project participants can access easily, preferably ones they're already using. Related tool: the telephone.

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Media Cause

JULY 19, 2022

In fact, many best practices can be incorporated into how the content itself is written, with additional support coming from technology and features already built into social media platforms and publishing tools. Write in plain language that users of all audiences and cognitive abilities can comprehend. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Prospect research software like DonorSearch provides tools that will automate analyzing wealth information for each prospect. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

Cross browser compatibility check – use tools like BrowserStack to make sure that your site looks the same across all browsers. 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. Plan redirects.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. When you can unleash the veritable biological orchestra working in the background of activating the emotionally rich tool of empathy , why wouldn’t you do this in your work of attracting, building, and maintaining donor relationships? The post Your Top-Secret Fundraising Tool?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Avoid jargon and idioms, use straightforward language, and keep your navigational mechanisms the same across all pages.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Over the past two years, philanthropy has asked important questions about equitable access—access to adequate funding, access to digital tools, access to power. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent).

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are wonderful for working on a document written in a markup language, but what if you don’t know anything about CSS? Use the Inspect Element Tool to customize your site and have the ability to edit HTML or JavaScript for any webpage while viewing your changes in real time.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Make sure you avoid jargon and idioms, use straightforward language, and keep your navigational mechanisms the same across all pages.

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2021

Your brand narrative is a set of tools that staff and key stakeholders can use to tell your brand story beyond visuals. How are other organizations in this space describing their work and how can we ensure we use language that explains what we do? Are there alternative ways to describe the work that we do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

my recommendations are highly affected by my location, my work experience, and limited to those tools and resources that I am well familiar with, but I hope your NGO finds the information useful. Of course, being based in the U.S., 1) Launch a new website that is mobile-optimized.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

A major part of that process will be making sure your site holds your donors’ attention and gives them access to easy-to-use online donation tools. 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.” Donation buttons .

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Just make sure your language emphasizes the safety and wellbeing of attendees in a positive way. Need peer-to-peer or text fundraising tools to pull off your virtual peer-to-peer event? Online shopping makes for a great alternative to a typical supply drive. Request a demo to see our tools in action! Learn More.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 24, 2021

Place their logo on the door of each unit you rent for the event (you can even couple it with cheeky language like “Don’t hire a crappy cleaning service! Bonus Tip: Find alternate arrangements if promises can’t be fulfilled. For instance, you may give sponsors the opportunity to sponsor port-a-potties at an outdoor event.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

By doing so, employees are outfitted with the tools needed to accomplish these challenges with the least possible hindrance to daily work life. Nothing turns potential consumers off quicker than an initial correspondence that makes them feel as if they are speaking to someone unable to process their business language.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

And while we are with you in moving away from words such as empower , we’ll stick to providing a few alternatives here rather than a full entry (maybe try out inspire , encourage , or some form of partnering with ). While not as succinct, a potential alternative to “brainstorming session” could simply be an “idea generation session.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? Google Labs has a cool tool where you can map usage of words in published materials. The alternative is fragmentation and balkanization, which is no alternative at all.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As an alternative, create a "freshman lounge" where new members can go to easily find information they need and others who can help them. Target outreach when building international communities: Target invites to potential members by language or location. One tool worth using is Facebook, which allows for geo-targeted posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). . Current Trends.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Since then, we’ve been hard at work bringing together the wide range of tech, tools, and services we all offer, including case management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising and engagement, as well as some functionality from our friends at Mobilize. Mobilize is here to stay. what we call the “front door.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

There are specialized software and hardware tools as well for people with cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, and speech disabilities as well. People may use an alternative keyboard or keyboard emulator, a Braille input device, a mouse emulator, optical character recognition, or voice recognition software like Dragon software.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. That's hardly revolutionary.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. informs the platforms, frameworks, and tools your organization will use, identifies needed system integrations, supports the organization's back-office and operational needs, and. What are the elements of our visual language?

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

Language to use + avoid in pitches We always want to be mindful of the language we use to describe impacted people and communities. Below are some examples of alternative language to use when discussing disabilities, incarceration, immigration, and substance use — four identities that are frequently misrepresented in the media.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

NNEDV has been an invaluable subject matter expert, collaborator, and friend to TechSoup's Caravan Studios as we develop the SafeNight app , a tool individuals can use to fund emergency shelter as a tax-deductible donation. Image 1: Alternatives to Violence. NNEDV has a packed month this October. Image 2: Mosaic Family Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Embracing these alternative perspectives is a significant departure for museums, reflecting a growing understanding of museums??? tools (like flickr Tag Fight. s collection.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I want to help people find interactive and accessible points of entry and give them the tools to curate their own experience during every museum visit. How did you first get involved with Museum Hack? What is my “ask” of my audience?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, Redpath’s Salesforce Marketing Cloud guide explains how this tool allows you to set up automated email streams that are highly customized and triggered by donors’ actions. For example, Salesforce for Nonprofits now includes access to Salesforce’s predictive AI tool, Einstein.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 12, 2023

You might consider hiring an outside reader or editor to scour your website, member communications, and agreements to ensure you’ve successfully used inclusive language across all important documents. Examples of WCAG compliance include alternative text for images, sufficient color contrast , resizable test, and keyboard accessibility.

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