Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

We tell stories to make sense of the world around us. Stories are based on commonly held beliefs about people, institutions, and society. Color of Change, a racial justice organization, understood that the messaging and narrative surrounding Black communities needed to be changed to challenge bias and misrepresentations.

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Change Strategy Attitude Policy 46

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Most importantly, in this current phase of philanthropy and understandings of social change, we are acknowledging that shared meaning making, and datamaking as one aspect, are central to the work of change itself.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 99

The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 25, 2023

But as the holiday decorations come down and the New Year begins, nonprofits often face a quieter phase, stretching from January to August. While this off-peak season can be challenging, it offers opportunities for strategic planning and sustained engagement. Together, we’ll make every year a fundraising success story!

Strategy 52

Strategy Fundraising Calendar Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

You will learn how deliver your elevator speech, work effectively with a board chair, deal with fundraising challenges, managing tips for staff and volunteers, crisis management, and leadership transitions. I’ll summarize her points here: Phase 1: What is the worst thing that could happen? Phase 3: What assumptions will be made?

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Review Leadership Guide Chapter 102

Achieve

MARCH 31, 2021

While the pandemic has certainly brought significant challenges, there. Give yourself plenty of time to plan and host them during your campaign’s public phase. Wealth markers will point you in the right direction when looking for prospects who can make a large donation to your capital campaign, but they don’t tell the whole story.

Campaign 98

Campaign Phase Studies Consultant 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When V2I’s co-founder, Fadi Al Qassar , told us about the challenges his organization was experiencing and we learned about all the positive impact that might be lost, we were keen to help in whatever way we could. Upon further refinement, we crafted a phased approach for implementation to support V2I in their execution.

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Philanthropy Impact Support Gambia 98

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 4, 2022

In the most recent phases of UMass Amherst’s steadily increasing Salesforce footprint, the Advancement teams across five UMass campuses were brought onto Marketing Cloud from iModules, bringing UMass one step closer to a completely connected Salesforce experience across campuses. . Cross-Campus Connection. Written by Blake Becker.

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Massachusetts University Communication Marketing 90

Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

Q: Describe the biggest challenges and/or opportunities to engaging technology talent for nonprofit capacity building. A: Throughout our research, we heard about the challenges of developing sustainable solutions that met the nonprofit’s need. The key is that it’s in phases: Discover, Design, Implement, and Maintain.

Director 52

Director Foundation Practice Technology 52

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 17, 2021

Recruitment + Admissions Lifecycle on Salesforce: The UAB Story. Before implementing Salesforce, the university faced several challenges, including siloed business processes, data splits, and slow loading times on system tools and applications.

Education 64

Education Vermont Alabama University 64

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

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Romania Generation Challenge Content 52

Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

2020 introduced a myriad of challenges to implementing pre-planned digital strategies. Getting started with personalization can be broken down into three phases: Crawl, Walk, Run. Strengthen your brand story. Start by selecting areas where you can execute impact and story-driven design refreshes that better tell your story.

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Impact Channel Audience Content 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The first phase is to get crowdsourced nominations of ”fearless changemakers,” people who have a social change project in the early stages and a Fearless prize could help them make the leap to scaling. The point is that the initiative is trying to identify and support innovative approaches to on the ground social change.

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Phase Grant Application Track 103

Bloomerang

JULY 15, 2021

Appreciate those who have alternative life experiences in their background when in recruitment phases. Discuss this challenge regularly with other leaders in your organization if you can. Founder of light-on-light, a project addressing the stories of individuals and organisations making a positive and intentional impact on society.

Nonprofit 107

Nonprofit National Culture Voice 107

Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Common challenges in government digital transformation pursuits include overlapping or redundant solutions and processes and siloed teams and communications. I’ve heard lots of stories about digital transformation or modernization efforts failing. What are some common reasons they fail? How long do these projects typically take?

Government 88

Government Digital System Fund 88

fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Salesforce integration consulting With a CRM as powerful and comprehensive as Salesforce, untangling how to integrate the systems you need by yourself can be a challenge. Take a look at some of our success stories.

Integration 59

Integration Service System Tech 59

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

However, the real challenge begins when the initial urgency subsides and public attention shifts away. The post-emergency phase sees many organizations grappling with a decline in donations, a critical period where strategic donor engagement can make a difference. .” Tag and thank them. This builds a connection.

Support 52

Support Donor Community Retention 52

The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 2, 2022

Translating a cause you care about into compelling words for a fundraising appeal can be a challenge. I also think about what kind of story I’m going to tell in the appeal and make some notes for the story direction. Writing without real-time editing what you write can be a challenge. It needs to get edited right away!”

Guide 89

Guide Fundraising Storytelling Process 89

Whole Whale

JULY 18, 2022

The challenge when writing a fundraising email is to not only avoid this filter, but actually make it fun or interesting. Don’t include unnecessary information or try to tell your entire story in one email. Immediately satisfy the curiosity gap from the subject line and bring the reader into the story.

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email Time Fundraising Images 64

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. I mentor people all the time and this is the number one assumption I challenge. These conversations have led to many amazing stories of accelerated growth that I cover in the book.

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Mentoring Business Consultant Lecture 67

NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Read on to get the full effect: The Google Impact Challenge is in India! Want to see a story of a nonprofit succeeding in multi-channel marketing and cute animals? The next Knight News Challenge: Health opened August 19, with an "inspiration phase" where anyone can submit inspirations, ideas, or challenges related to the topic.

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Research Contest Phase India 61

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Although the work on the ground was creative and engaged, they faced the familiar challenges of aligning the organizational processes of executive and staff with the timeline of board engagement. Philanthropy loves “new” things.

Knowledge 69

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 69

Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We love a good origin story. For us, it's been a challenge for sure but also a really great thing. We’re a really small organization and staying on top of all of these moving parts can be a challenge! It allows us to stay on top of each phase of the proposal we’re working on. And the same goes for Grants Management.

Accessibility 69

Accessibility Project Advocacy Grant 69

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. This was a newer idea for folks in the room, but I think once the surprise wore off, people really accepted the challenge. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Global Group Thailand Burma 157

Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. The critical next step in this initial planning phase is to determine the assets your organization has at its disposal. Stories Worth Telling (The Meyer Foundation).

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project. She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer.

Digital 93

Digital Foundation Community Strategy 93

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . We want to look through a different lens into these campaigns.

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Campaign Video Project Process 91

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights. Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. Learning Analytics.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On the federal grant side, and increasingly on the foundation side, new regulations and policies have made survival as a grant-funded organization more challenging by adding additional layers of accountability and complexity for grant recipients. Story after story in the news told similar tales of grant mismanagement occurring.

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Grant Management Phase Award 20

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

We know that successful fundraising appeals have 4 things in common: A compelling story. An online appeal is bigger than an email—it has multiple parts that fit together to create one compelling story. Here’s how to get the right mix of tone, story, and examples: Start with your audience. Who can tell your story best?

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Fundraising Gift Audience Story 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol.

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Haiti Map Volunteer Tech 96

sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Activity-based events – These events are centered around a physical event that’s often challenging. Shift: In this type of event, there really isn’t a shift phase; continue to recruit participants up until the day of the event. . Using powerful statistics and stories can demonstrate your mission impact and bring your mission to life.

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email Communication Create Fundraising 74

Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2016

Now, in April 2016 I’m finally able to share that book with the world – The Storytelling Non-Profit: A practical guide to telling stories that raise money and awareness. Writing The Storytelling Non-Profit has been an intense, stressful, joyful, rewarding, challenging, and incredible experience. 2 There Has to Be a Why.

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Storytelling Profit Learning Austin 20

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Is our board on track for the public phase? Whether you’re already riding the momentum of an exciting campaign or just considering the planning phase, know you have access to the right engagement tools and tips to prepare your board for a successful capital campaign. The Public Phase In launching this final phase, timing is key.

Campaign 57

Campaign Tools Phase Accessibility 57

sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2023

They closely adhere to the classic phase structure, with planning phases, a feasibility study, a long quiet phase to secure the bulk of the goal, a public kickoff, a short public phase, and extended post-campaign stewardship. The categories described above simply illustrate the general shapes that campaigns can take.

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Model Campaign Build Phase 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Again, understanding how your current audience is using your web site and what they are most likely to consume on their mobile phones can guide phasing. The challenge will be how social networks migrate to “tactile&# media. Start collecting cell phone numbers now! 2.) QR codes via mobile.

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Integration Mobile Conference Strategy 97

Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

He focused mostly on his impression of the role of story in games, comparing the impact of film to that of games. Some choice quotes: Stories tend to be unchanging, very linear, whereas games tend to be open ended. The circuit in our brain that makes stories appealing to us is empathy. Wright's full speech is available here.

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Game Story Museum Movie 20