The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Speak Clearly, Speak with Conviction Steer clear of that murky pool filled with jargon and overly elaborate language. A well-articulated proposal? What you’re aiming for is a clear, persuasive proposal. One that even folks unacquainted with your organization would find captivating.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As you build out your appeal, think of the tools, stories, and language your fundraisers might need, and put this together in a toolkit to make sure it’s as easy as possible for them to fundraise on your behalf. Use language from your appeal to set up default appeal content for an individual’s personal fundraising page.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Making sure that our visions align is crucial, and success depends heavily on communication: asking the right questions from the start and helping whoever the request is coming from to articulate their needs when they might lack the creative language to do so feasibly. Understand the target audience.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work. There is no shortage of frameworks and methodologies for measuring, assessing, and articulating social impact; however, one element that we must not lose sight of is our qualitative data and stories.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Your mission statement and supporting language should clearly articulate why your organization exists and may include elements about the impact you expect to have on the population you serve. While not all, most grantmakers will require this designation for their grant recipients. Do you have a well-defined mission statement?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) created a toolkit with helpful information and sample language. Also make sure to articulate how much can be drawn down, who is allowed to do this, for what reasons, and timing requirements for replenishing the funds. This will help things go much more smoothly when the time comes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Craft a clear and compelling message Develop a case for support , a concise and persuasive message to articulate the importance of legacy giving. Be sure to provide sample language for donors t o use in their Will to arrange for your nonprofit to receive a portion of what remains after estate taxes.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

In your initial conversations about the aesthetic you’re after, does the agency staff communicate in language that you can understand? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? If not, are you confident in their capacities to expand their design? Do they outsource design? Technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Inclusion – Change management gives your organization a framework with the language and instructions needed to ensure all stakeholders have a chance to voice their viewpoints. It impacts every phase of transition, from articulating a vision to easing staff through disruption and helping project team members adapt to the new status quo.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 15, 2015

How to articulate risk according to probability and seriousness, both for your position and the opposition's, and ensure that yours is "safer." Use language to propel discussions and actions. And, he teaches you to focus on the influencing power of risk. Know when to stop "selling" and being "sowing."

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

If you’re still stuck, check out these additional tips: When crafting your belief statement, try starting with “We believe…” and then follow with a clear articulation of what your organization stands for. Include participatory, “you”-centric language (e.g., “Are Use emotive language that shows rather than tells. Are you in?”)

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Build a marketing plan to promote the membership drive and include language that highlights the value proposition you defined in the previous step. Ensure that your membership drive materials clearly articulate all that’s included in each membership tier.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

In your initial conversations about the aesthetic you’re after, does the agency staff communicate in language that you can understand? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Do you have multi-language needs? If so, has the agency worked on other multi-language sites? Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and inspire alignment,’ said Benioff. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. A is for alignment. L is for the leadership that does that.”.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

With a platform for shared understanding of outcomes definition, how to measure progress, and a standardized language for giving, foundations and nonprofits are able to collaborate for change more effectively. This helps provide a platform for foundations and nonprofits to partner more closely on achieving intended outcomes together.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld also suggests that organizations move from classic corporate-speak to more natural, emotional language. Getting to natural, emotional language is possible by asking staff about their proudest moments fulfilling your organization's mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. You’re going to connect more than to learn. A few years ago, I started looking for meetings where I felt I knew much less about the content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. Some need to conduct programs in multiple languages. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Some organizations need to focus on 3rd graders.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language. These are N arrowed objectives.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Often when a person struggles to put something into words, it means the issue is very important to them and they want to articulate it in an accurate way. Not only can you ask questions, but you can read body language which is very hard on the phone. Or you might learn which program, project, or appeal first sparked their heart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

To check if your organization is grants-ready, you should first ask yourself these questions: Can you clearly articulate your mission, vision, and your impact on the population you serve? Do you have a project or program for which you can clearly and convincingly articulate your need for funds?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

From the first time you meet, try to get a sense of whether you speak the same language. The client will need to articulate what is pretty to them by showing examples of sites they would describe as pretty. If they don’t, it will always be a struggle, no matter how well-intentioned both parties are. Pretty’ is a very subjective word.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Sometimes this means providing participating fundraisers with stock language to use in emails, sample social media posts, reminders to send asks to friends and family and more. A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

John Udell articulates a reason why screencasting is really cool: In my talk I suggested that this kind of unconscious transmission of tacit knowledge may be a key rationale for the practice of pair programming. To translate into nonprofit tech language - screencasting creates shoulder-to-shoulder training in a social networking way.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. We didn’t give ourselves time to create a collective language. Partners need to understand each other. We didn’t do our due diligence to understand the differences of norms. Partners need to plan together.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives. If a four-year-old can articulate the design message of an exhibit and respond to it accordingly, surely an adult can as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief. What are the elements of our visual language? Over the years, I've learned that these can be minimized (they're almost never eliminated, trust me!)

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

If you’re struggling to articulate your objectives, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant early in your market research process. It encourages respondents to provide their honest opinion, without including language that would sway the respondent to answer in any particular manner.

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Candid

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, I also think it is essential for organizations (and researchers) to carefully consider their BIPOC-led definitions and articulate the rationale for them. From a diversity, equity, and inclusion standpoint, being clear about language and identity is important. However, the term BIPOC is not always ideal—e.g.,

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You don’t need to know a single programming language. You need to be able to clearly articulate the need for automation and new low-code/no-code platforms, identify the expenses involved, and define the returns you and your organization can expect to see. to teach our computers to do our work for us. And the best part? The solution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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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 terms of service are reasonable and thoughtfully written (though the underlying terms are full of draconian legalese that seems somewhat contradictory to other language on the site). What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

They may also begin to cultivate a “language” of talking about this with others. An example is that adults select charming, articulate youth to talk about the garden in a public venue, but those youth haven’t had ample opportunity to critically reflect or consult with their peers.

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