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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

This document ensures that everyone in an organization is on the same page when it comes to using language in a way that is respectful and accurate. The use of inclusive language can help reduce the incidence of bias and prejudice in the workplace. It should avoid jargon and overly technical language. What is a style guide?

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). Some tweeted.

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#NTCFail: When Things Don't Go as Planned (or Your Plan Stinks)

NTEN

We have over 100 sessions across 6 tracks at the NTC, so it's really hard to find ANY application that can display all that data in a meaningful but user-friendly way. We don't want to offend people, and I know that kind of language is offensive. NTCFail 4: Online agenda. We know - it was REALLY HARD to navigate. Got suggestions?

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

It's a highly diverse country where 415 languages are spoken, 30 of which are major languages with over one million speakers each. have worked with 1,270 NGOs and government organizations on developing skills in cloud applications and social media. billion people, of which over 70% are rural.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. They did not have a preference in mind for the redesign when it came to the programming language, just a clear understanding of what they wanted supporters to be able to do. That directed the build. Information for bloggers.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. VoiceTexter :: itunes.apple.com/voicetexter. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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