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3 Smart Branding Strategies for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As passionate as we all are about our causes and their corresponding missions, from the inside looking out, sometimes we lose sight of the actual goal of our communications. Create an emotional connection with your target audience to bring them closer to your cause. 3) Speak the language of your community. New Israel Fund.

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report provides an overview of the technology in easy to understand language. What about questions of legal liability in cases where algorithms cause harm? . One obvious application of language analysis is as a tool for human-resources departments. In the last five years, he has been researching and writing about AI.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The big difference in India - is that CSR is not cause-marketing or geared towards sales. He points that in America, "Ninety percent of companies cannot discern the difference between cause marketing and corporate social responsibility. There was a very productive conversation. Altruism often fails or is not thought out.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Objective : Increase donations for the soup kitchens, while also communicating an individual’s impact on the cause.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause. Keyes is not controversy averse, though.

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Once Upon a Design: An Introduction to Visual Storytelling

NTEN

Now, substitute "donors" for "listeners" and "mission" for "moral" and you can see just how handy stories can be for cause-based organizations. When crafting effective stories for nonprofits, we've found the best tales are told not just with evocative language but through smart visual design. What, exactly, is a visual story?