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

The question then becomes, how can we positively influence and further support wellbeing in the workplace through our employee engagement and philanthropy programs? For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work. The most natural place to start is with connection.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Understand the associated legal and financial implications so that you can answer any questions that may arise. Craft a clear and compelling message Develop a case for support , a concise and persuasive message to articulate the importance of legacy giving.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) created a toolkit with helpful information and sample language. Board Feedback : The Board should set aside time during a meeting to review the policy and ask questions of the members who created the draft. This will help things go much more smoothly when the time comes.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The easiest way to develop this understanding is to simply ask your supporters questions. You can answer the following questions: How do donors really feel about your nonprofit? If you’re struggling to articulate your objectives, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant early in your market research process.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Your value proposition needs to be a compelling presentation that answers one of a potential member’s biggest questions: What’s in it for me? Build a marketing plan to promote the membership drive and include language that highlights the value proposition you defined in the previous step.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

Without question, our ability to track and measure outcomes and the impact of social good initiatives has expanded considerably over the past several years. Data champions —whether inside a nonprofit organization or a foundation—know that data on its own doesn’t accelerate impact on its own.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What you want to do is copy and paste the specific questions into a Word document and respond thoroughly to each question. Note: Steps #2 – #6 are all very common questions asked in any FOA/RFP/NOFA. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language. Why do this?

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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. But if you only have time for the hard questions, start at 6:30. You’re going to connect more than to learn. Also, there’s mild profanity.

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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. video storytelling webinars tsdigs tstellingyourstory'

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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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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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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

From the first time you meet, try to get a sense of whether you speak the same language. You may not be able to answer all of these questions from day one, but you will soon work out whether the ‘fit’ is right for you. The client will need to articulate what is pretty to them by showing examples of sites they would describe as pretty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. 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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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. It clarifies decision making at every level by ensuring that the questions we need to answer when working with content, technology, and design are grounded in one simple goal. The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? 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. My question is what happens when the numbers don't look good?

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Candid

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Along this vein, a valid question is whether an organization’s self-identity should be a factor in whether they are “BIPOC-led”. However, I also think it is essential for organizations (and researchers) to carefully consider their BIPOC-led definitions and articulate the rationale for them. it is less relevant to non-U.S.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. 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. The morning ritual is a chance for all to reflect on the organization’s results and be inspired.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact! Here are some ways you keep your supporters engaged during the event: Offer a prize or a registration fee donation match for the team that gets the most questions right.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We discovered that if you are in the role of promoting collaboration among others, you need to articulate your definition of collaboration and what your expectations are for outcomes. A formal definition is not necessary in every situation, but it’s worth getting very clear on language with potential partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. I would characterize the atmosphere as one of informed and intelligent skepticism on the part of the Copyright Office, with many questions exploring different positions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). It's like a giant, free, no-holds-barred focus group that represents a true range of arts users and non-users. Several Detroit comments were in this vein.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Iterative prompt refinement forces clearer articulation of intent and goals upfront, enabling more aligned responses. Strengthening Logic Identify any flawed logic, questionable assumptions, or gaps in the reasoning of the previous reply. Increasing Approachability Pinpoint any overly academic language, jargon, or complex vocabulary.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It might be a little tight because we’ve got a lot of good stuff to share with you, but ask questions anyway because we might be able to get to your question offline as well. But if there’s a lot of questions we don’t get to, I will write up some FAQs and send them to you afterwards, so don’t be shy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

They want articulated goals and expectations. In the case of Chabot, if we had made up (reasonable) answers to questions like "where will this go?" Here's one I've made twice: not providing participants with clear criteria for success. It's a surprising fact that volunteer designers don't want a blank slate for their creativity.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Crafting a good nonprofit mission statement forces you to examine your organization’s purpose at its core and then mine the English language for just the right words to convey that purpose in as few words as possible. Get started with these questions: Who will we serve? Actually, your mission statement should pass the T-shirt test.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done well, these statements breathe the essence of your organization into language that can reach diverse audiences. Well-crafted statements give them the language and the confidence to make the important asks! Writing nonprofit mission and vision statements can be an exciting (and often anxiety-causing) exercise!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

10+ ready-to-use content modules and question types. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks. With the Articulate 360 suite, you access: Storyline 360 to create custom interactive courses. Multi-language support to translate and localize content.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But most importantly, if you are listening live, please do chat in your questions and comments along the way. But first, I want to ask you this question. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” And it’s a little bit of a trick question. So have no fear. So don’t be shy. You can send us a tweet.

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 107

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

So to get the design and language geared to them is very difficult because most of the stuff for them is ads and magazines. We field questions for science fairs and research. The girls on our team are all articulate and engaged and I want them to feel the confidence to do something they might not otherwise have the chance to do.

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