Forum One

APRIL 13, 2023

As we finish our three-blog series, we hope you have a better understanding of what service design is and why it’s important for the social sector. There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project!

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

So, how do we help our audiences find the information they need? Designing a desktop menu is one way; it’s one aspect of navigation that informs a website’s overall structure. Before identifying which menu approach is appropriate, make sure your team is aligned on overall goals, audiences, and content needs.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

When it comes to nonprofit web design, this principle is no different. In fact, 94% of first impressions of a website are design-related, meaning that the visual elements of your website can have a huge impact on whether site visitors stick around or navigate away from your website and organization altogether.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2023

Moreover, nonprofits can expand their reach and engage with a wider audience by improving the overall user experience with accessible communications. 1) Design Design in email accessibility is particularly important for ensuring that individuals of all abilities can effectively access, comprehend, and engage with email content.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It may also be a bit intimidating—creating work we are proud of that WOWs our team or client and checks off all needs can be challenging. . Understand the target audience. Understanding what drives the audience will help us to make important and informed decisions about the artwork we create. Do the research!

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you aren’t a designer yourself, the design process can seem like a mystery. I think it’s valuable for everyone who works with creative teams to understand the work that leads up to different types of projects. It can also grow your understanding of design. It can also grow your understanding of design.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you aren’t a designer yourself, the design process can seem like a mystery. I think it’s valuable for everyone who works with creative teams to understand the work that leads up to different types of projects. It can also grow your understanding of design. It can also grow your understanding of design.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

Two of our most used service design activities are ecosystem mapping and service blueprinting. This is an opportunity to build out a service blueprint detailing various customer or user journeys, annotated with quotes from your audience research. Are you looking to improve a service experience? Get in touch!

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Over the course of my career, I’ve sat on nonprofit advocacy, fundraising, and communications teams—all in an overall digital engagement capacity. And I’ve been part of the teams whose job it is to achieve alignment, meet all the goals, and construct holistic journeys out of a plethora of KPIs, messaging points, and strategic frameworks. .

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

But your website won’t get your organization very far if it’s poorly designed. Optimizing your site’s design will give your organization the best chance of engaging supporters online. . All you need is an easy-to-use website builder, or content management system (CMS), and an understanding of a few web design strategies.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype.

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Forum One

MAY 16, 2024

But with the right effort, you can ensure your accessible site grows even better for your audiences. People on your team might be used to putting text over images because for them, it’s an efficient way to highlight information. The new design system has gaps. Adapt your design system to support all user needs.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Woodland Park Zoo’s leadership understood that a well-designed event experience drives giving. What is a reasonable amount of time for your audience to stay attentive while watching a livestream from home? Prioritizing the Live Gala Experience Brought in Big Bucks. TIP: Bring the energy of your live event to your virtual stream!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How does fashion design relate to digital design? On a basic level, all designers gather inspiration from a range of sources and many design principles are consistent across different disciplines. Designers from around the world presented work inspired by issues in their community and the world.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Camp Rosenbaum Fund included a virtual audience in their live event for this one important reason. As more people become accustomed to consuming content online, events require thoughtful design to keep them fresh and viable. In fundraising, not all the costs or benefits come in the form of dollars.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Over the next few posts, I’m going to explore how AI grounded in EI can be your association’s superpower helping you accomplish those New Year’s goals and bring out the best in every team. Our teams are critically important. Outreach to our communities can be swift, targeted, and designed for the highest impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We all have diverse audiences, and we must make sure our web content can be consumed in a way that includes everyone, especially those we serve. As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. These tools are a great starting point for creating accessible designs.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Their competitive nature makes them exciting for participants, and you can tailor the atmosphere and items to your target audience. If you use a premade design template, make sure you can customize it for your nonprofit. Jeff and his team at Winspire have helped over 12,000 non-profits to date.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

This advice is especially relevant for anyone looking to attract a younger audience. Thought leadership is a powerful way to engage an audience that prefers to be educated versus sold to. Companies often make the mistake of trying to sell through the lens of what’s best for them, versus what’s best for their audience.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This resource contains five key tactics designed to help you raise more at year-end by knowing what metrics matter; craft compelling campaigns by learning what messages will resonate most with your target audiences; save your team precious time at year-end through automation.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

Audience research is changing—along with a changing world—to help us on our quest to better understand audience behavior, needs, frustrations, and successes and ensure products and services are successful. Audience research is here to stay. Audience research is here to stay. Risk planning helps to navigate uncertainties.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Creative-problem solving on a small budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because golf events have unique components—like handicaps, flighting, hole assignments, scoring—having a platform that’s specifically designed for golf is crucial. An event website gives supporters a centralized place to find more information about the organization and event, purchase teams and sponsorships, and even make a donation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Strategically designing sponsorships that include digital exposure boosts event revenue and keeps sponsors coming back year after year. Why Sponsors Love It: They get broader exposure to an affluent and influential audience of golfers and other sponsors, with visibility before, during, and after the tournament.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Doing event fundraisers puts a strain on small organizations and teams working with tighter budgets. As a type of peer-to-peer fundraising , these campaigns have the potential to reach new audiences while also securing donations. The post 9 Engaging, Event-Free Fundraisers for Teams on a Budget first appeared on npENGAGE.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

By continuing to carefully communicate with their communities, they gain audience insights and trust built on empathy and an understanding of shifting needs. As a designer, I can attest that organizations need real experts to communicate with their audiences. Below, a few of our agency’s top experts share their take.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Two of our most used service design activities are ecosystem mapping and service blueprinting. This is an opportunity to build out a service blueprint detailing various customer or user journeys, annotated with quotes from your audience research. Are you looking to improve a service experience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

By Maria De La Guardia , design director and brand strategist at Bureau for Good , a design agency that helps nonprofits explain why they matter across digital and print media. For more insights on branding, messaging, strategy, print and web design, sign up to receive Bureau for Good’s once-monthly articles here.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Because this process can be so extensive, it’s best to partner with a team of experienced marketing experts when launching a new direct mail program. Additionally, audiences are likely to open and engage with direct mail. Direct mail reaches different audiences. Let’s get started! Contact Us! Research and exploration.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

To share your mission with a wide audience. Do we need to engage an external freelancer (writing and/or design)? To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year. To generate new donations, retain donors and grow partnerships.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

The goal is to move your position forward while engaging your supporter audience. Through integrated multichannel campaigns and intense optimization based on audience and key performance metrics, MESG Marketing helps nonprofits raise more money, grow and cultivate constituent bases, drive advocacy actions, and develop their online brands.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Internally, you likely engage with the following team members regularly: . team meetings. build effective presentation skills.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. Step 2: Define your audience Understanding your audience can make or break your communications campaign’s success. This is where a communications campaign can come in handy.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the end, the design outside wouldn’t fit the personality inside. The same thing happens when a marketing team jumps right into the visual design of a project and expect to drop in the message later. When the Achieve team began to think about branding for MCON, the premier. conference. They’re very good.)

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Why is Online Presence Management Better Than Web Design? Here’s our top five reasons for why OPM is better than web design. How is Online Presence Management different to web design? The most important benefit that online presence management offers when compared to web design is the thoroughness of its coverage.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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