The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Stories surfaced reminding us of its pitfalls — from a lawyer citing fabricated court cases ( [link] ) to harmful advice delivered by an AI bot replacing a nonprofit’s helpline ( [link] ). Therefore, the underlying large language model (LLM) matters as it shapes the “most likely” predictions. To borrow from Emily M.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

What tropes or story elements might reinforce harmful stereotypes or otherwise be problematic? Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers. If not, look for ways to use visual cues to draw attention to the most important content.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Successfully including all stakeholders in the life of a nonprofit requires attention to enacting and maintaining inclusive practices. I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g., disabled people”) as opposed to Person-First Language (e.g., Listen to and believe disabled voices. Utilize inclusive language.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. If you saw an ad, and later read an email, you’d know it was the same, just from the language.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? Showing impact numbers and, more importantly, stories keep donors informed and engaged. Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story. Ensuring you have access to the photos and stories you need to paint the full picture.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. As long as you’re giving donors a great experience ( thanking them well , communicating consistently, telling heartwarming stories, etc.), Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Reach out to LYBUNT donors in November and December – a good story can always prompt someone to give again! 3 Tell Stories that Make You Stand Out from the Crowd In episode 3 of “Year-End in July,” guests Dom Spinosa, Alyssa Boger, and copywriting expert Cathe Hoerth discuss the power of storytelling in fundraising.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Knowing the answers to these questions can help you create content and social media that attracts people’s attention and draws new donors to your website. You should also work to develop your brand’s voice and language across your social media profiles. Every nonprofit has a story, but how do you tell yours?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Daily stand-ups give a voice to all team members and empower people to speak up. Continuous feedback loops allow for people to have an equal voice in their organization. Empathy is the language of nonprofit donation requests, annual reports and case studies. The stories of those they serve are the drivers of gathering support.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

To prevent email from being flagged as spam, McClelland suggests at a minimum avoiding overuse of spammy language such as “free,” “bargain,” and “first come, first served,” especially during the run-up to holidays or other busy times when inboxes are already teeming with retail ads and come-ons.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . It’s easy to get in the habit of reaching out for fundraising purposes, but it’s equally necessary to engage your people with impact stories. . Show + Tell. Define Your Goal + Have a Clear Call to Action.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Your users have miniscule attention spans. Limited Attention Spans. In 2000, a study by Microsoft showed that the average human attention span was 12 seconds. What happened between 2000 and 2015 that would account for a 33% reduction in attention span? A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. Words matter.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2016

If you're sending too many text, email, and voice messages along with occasional snail mail, all that communication can sometimes have the opposite effect — it turns people off to your church. Choose to communicate carefully, all the while respecting the valuable time and attention of the people you are here to serve.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2010

After scouring the web, two articles caught our attention this week. Livingston recommends keeping an eye in Ipad apps such as Flipboard which allows users to create their own magazine based on preferences and socially recommended content and ABC’s iPad app , a visual globe of news stories. Find your writing voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. Stories: How will encourage people to share their stories and capture them? Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable? How will you get their voice?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

However, as I learned from spending two weeks in Asia this past December , the news sources you watch and consume can dramatically effect your consciousness and ultimately your social media voice. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

The right of publicity prevents the unauthorized commercial use of an individual's name, likeness, or other recognizable aspects of the individual's persona, including the person's voice. For pictures that you use for current news stories. If the person pictured is under 18 years of age.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on. Examples from Haiti.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. At the beginning of your presentation, it’s wonderful to tell your own story that relates to the organization’s cause or mission. If you don’t have your own story — retell someone else’s. Well, that depends.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

They decide with their feet, attention, dollars, and participation. Getting New Voices in Your Head The essential first step to this "community first" process is identifying communities of interest and learning about their assets, needs, and interests. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Pay close attention to this because it is likely that you will lose your audience’s attention at the same moments. At the beginning of your presentation, it’s wonderful to tell your own story that relates to the organization’s cause or mission. If you don’t have your own story — retell someone else’s. Well, that depends.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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Classy

JULY 16, 2021

Pay attention to your Instagram captions, because they’ll determine whether or not people will see your posts—and what actions they’ll take once they do. Pay Attention to the Length. There is no single formula for caption length ; it all depends on your nonprofit’s voice and the visual that goes with the caption.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

He began the talk by telling the story of the first time Google Earth was used for awareness raising by Rebecca Moore, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach. KML (Keyhole Markup Language), it is just a type of file format, like a PDF is a file format. Steve also highlighted the work of Appalacian Voices' End Mountaintop Removal layer.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

” I want you to be paying attention. Should I be paying attention to that? The moment that they get your communication, whether that’s over email, if it’s a phone call, if it’s a text message, if it’s a voice memo, if it’s a personalized video, whatever it is, this is a chance for you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2021

This year, against a backdrop of social unrest and a pandemic, UNHCR is bringing special attention to refugees on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the communities that host them. Longer-term volunteering is available with an eight-week English language coaching program. Their stories: Rescue.org.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2022

This year, against a backdrop of social unrest and a pandemic, UNHCR is bringing special attention to refugees on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the communities that host them. Longer-term volunteering is available with an eight-week English language coaching program. Their stories: Rescue.org.

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Achieve

AUGUST 23, 2017

Choose your beneficiary story (or stories). you spent time speaking with beneficiaries to gather stories of how their lives are better as a result of your organization’s work. Early September is the time to revisit the stories you’ve collected and determine the strongest one around which to base your year-end campaign.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

This podcast, hosted by Leila Adnani, helps nonprofits share their impact stories to promote the work that they do for potential donors. Once you find a blog with a voice or writing style you like, you’ll be able to absorb a plethora of knowledge online. Constant Contact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when we talk about people loving people, there are three things that I would like to draw your attention to. Are we giving our donors the same attention as we are giving the people we ask them to love? The whole pack is designed to speak to the reasons of why supporters give in their own language.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

It’s another thing entirely to show it (and let someone that isn’t on your payroll tell that story in their own words). Perhaps the people you serve have successes to share, or your volunteers want to talk about why they partner with your organization – testimonials let them tell your story in their own words. . Video testimonials.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. So the first one is your voice, how to use your voice to convey your message. Voice was being one of those. So this is our agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. Members share detailed personal stories, ask for and get advice from others, and use supportive, nonjudgmental language when they communicate with each other.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2020, the election—and just as important, the stories told about the election —took on exceptional significance. First there were stories of the historic voter turnout, and people forced to line up for hours across the country to cast their vote. Community stories trickled up to national attention.

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