ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable). If it has been a while since you reviewed or revised your mission statement, start here.

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Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I love the way Laura articulates this. If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one? If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one? It might be a letter, an email blast, or a social media campaign, and it might be a phone call.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Evaluate how your organization’s and your community’s core values are being articulated and experienced in the stories you tell , in your interactions with the public, and in your communications with donors. The strongest bonds are those that have been tested. With every campaign and goal, there will be missteps.

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Retention Donor Build Strategy 86

Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

They may be evaluating their financial and philanthropic goals, and thinking of ways to leave a lasting impact. Craft a clear and compelling message Develop a case for support , a concise and persuasive message to articulate the importance of legacy giving. The document should be concise and graphically appealing.

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Gift Practice United States New York City 60

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

How to improve operational inefficiencies that are stopping your nonprofit from reaching its goals. Ask yourself the following questions to narrow down your research objectives: What are your goals as an organization, from both a mission-driven and operational perspective? What do you do really well? Where would you like to improve?

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Research Marketing Survey Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve been mulling over the “Social Media ROI&# concept and how it doesn’t necessarily work for nonprofits, especially when it applied as a litmus test to see if there are financial outcomes — cost reductions or increased revenue. It defines all the results required to bring about a given long-term goal.

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Social Media Change Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

I was excited to take my learning much deeper with a two-day immersive workshop with participants who run innovation labs. The sessions focused on how to combine various techniques together to achieve a specific goal and while there was a lot of “ facilitating with sticky notes ,” the overall process was larger than that.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

Can and do board members articulate this focus to others, particularly potential donors? Can board and staff clearly articulate what will be different as a result of the campaign? Do you regularly share progress reports on fundraising with the board and discuss specific goals and objectives of the development program?

Campaign 40

Campaign Fundraising Articulate Indianapolis 40

Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Here are the top 8 most important tips to ensure your flyers are convincing, informative, and attractive enough to exceed your fundraising goals. Test out different shapes. Always think about your branding, goals, and target audience ahead of the actual creative procedure. Tip 7: Test out distinct shapes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” David gave an overview about the difference between a nonprofit strategic plan and business plan: A strategic plan describes goals, strategy, and actions. A business plan tests the proposition in the vision and based on research determines whether it is economically and operationally viable. Is this new and unique?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A ‘Web Engagement’ is a broad term that simply refers to any occasion where a person or business seeks outside consultation, including swot analysis , assistance or collaboration in achieving online goals. Business and lifestyle goals of the owner(s). Communicate Specific and Clear Goals. Make Sure You Don’t Irritate Each Other.

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Web Tips Articulate Project 40

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

Can you talk about how you were able to pivot the Foundation’s focus to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of local organizations due to the pandemic while also maintaining a focus on your longer-term goals and mission? We are redesigning our 2021 strategy as we continue to listen to, and learn from, our community partners.

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Foundation Community Childhood Articulate 49

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The chance to do work with an impassioned, articulate, and engaged CEO behind whom they can rally. On the flip side, if your strategic vision is to effect huge transformational change— systemic change rather than project-based goals—someone who’s experienced with annual fund appeals probably isn’t going to be a good match for your board.

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Articulate Greece History Goal 27

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. You could, for example, have a goal of reaching 50% of your fundraising goal on the first day of your campaign (Giving Tuesday!). Set a clear goal.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

John Crossman demonstrated the completely new version of the Bookshare on-line library, which is currently in the first round of beta tests. Patrick was able to explain our human rights work articulately and passionately as always! But, it's clear that we have to work at being better known to fully accomplish our social mission goals.

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Guatemala Demonstration United States Washington 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Ocean Conservancy is dedicated to the goal of a healthy ocean by increasing public awareness of ocean issues and bringing significant changes to the way oceans are managed. She initiated a discussion about how to test some of Shirky's ideas. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee.

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Conservancy Reflection Social Media Learning 100

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the Nonprofit Centers Network , we are asked about nonprofit collaboration frequently because the shared space centers who make up our 170+ membership were often created with the goal of bringing nonprofits together to collaborate, reduce expenses and find smarter ways to work together. Be clear on what that word means. It’s human.

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Collaboration Test Roles Goal 28

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. There's no oversight or permission required because the activity is self-evidently in keeping with our goals and strategy. Sorry for the delay.

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Culture Build Museum Articulate 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

One of his goals is to be a good father). So, having having a year long experiment in testing the ideas is the perfect experiment. You figure things out and you get back on track and back to focus. You get to identify a life goal and 90 day goals – and build tiny habits every day to get there.

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Interview Exercise Life Children 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The classes sold, but it took me away from what was the real goal of our program, connecting people to collections through action. I tested the waters. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. I ran scores and scores of classes, like purse-making and shoe-decorating.

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Audience Museum Classes Library 38

DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it. Consider how your brand will last the test of time. Platforms.

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Guide Guidelines Nonprofit Mind 52

Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Clear, effective communication that articulates the nonprofit’s message and goals. By making donors feel like they are part of a larger cause and can directly contribute to achieving those goals, you’ll encourage them to increase the value and frequency of their gifts. Carving out time to interact with major donors face-to-face.

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Donation Practice Fundraising Gift 52

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Yet “road tests” of the user experience for events not using a mobile responsive registration form, showed that it was impossible to select a Registration Type for an event – a key first step in the registration process. Next Steps.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Align with the goals of the organization and people you serve . Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . Have you taken the time to clearly articulate your desired impact , and the outcomes or indicators you’ll need to monitor to see your progress toward that goal? Know your audience .

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

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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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

An effective website starts with a plan that includes clear goals for fundraising and communications. These goals should guide what your priorities are, what content and functionality you will provide online. If your primary communications goal is education, do you have engaging content that's easy for visitors to locate?

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Communication Online DC Wiki 57

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We sometimes lose track of the big goals that should underline all of our promotion, and we don't spend the time to develop and refine those goals based on research. They do constant A/B testing to understand what is and isn't working. But then, a few things happened. We started.

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Job Marketing Difference Museum 51

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

We work for causes and goals that do not create private wealth and should not be directed by government. I know that because we articulated that message repeatedly at the Alliance. And how those leaders have been tested during that decade, with the recession and social and political change swirling around them.

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Reflection Arizona Nonprofit Classes 40

Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

The key purposes of Stakeholder Discovery are, in priority order: To align the entire project team around goals for the project. It’s still of utmost value though to get all of your stakeholders in a room to articulate what you’re trying to do and to build consensus across the team. Usability Tests. Key Messages to Convey.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

Lack of a structured process for quality assurance (QA) testing and remediation. Describe your organization, project, goals and scope, and vision for a technology product. Are they able to articulate this in straightforward language? QA testing finds and resolves bugs and ensures the product works as promised.

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Project Digital Work Tips 58

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

They want articulated goals and expectations. When we did the final evaluation for the project, one comment from the teens really surprised us: they complained that it felt like we were "hiding" the goals of the project from them in the first of three weeks. At first, we didn't understand what they were talking about.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

The goal is to capture the essence of your organization’s work. Actually, your mission statement should pass the T-shirt test. A vision statement articulates where you are headed, your future, the target in the distance that you are aiming for in everything that you do. Well, good news! And get it?

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Hunger Nonprofit Examples Process 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Test and tweak. Can we calculate it if we haven't done anything yet?

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

But as Seema says, wellness is contextual—fit-test these ideas to your culture before you wade in. Seema) I’m a big fan of articulating norms. These are themed often and I find myself looking forward to these monthly events because I make it a goal to meet a new person since we are such a large organization.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. I didn't feel like I had the pre-knowledge needed to make useful decisions about how to line up various kinds of legal structures or financing strategies to my goals.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And that really stuck with me because we have this idea, not everybody, but lots of us, that we got to focus on the organization’s goal and then we just get the people to fill in. And the reality is that it is not sustainable over time to burn the people to get to the goal. ” How many among us have jumped up at 3:00 a.m.,

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Management Work Video Slides 88