sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children. Currently, she is the Food Security Lead Associate for Save the Children in Arkansas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

It’s why children are taught essential functions at an early age: they haven’t yet learned the wrong way to do things. Movement, language, mannerisms—it’s crucial that these fundamentals are properly taught to avoid the potentially painstaking unlearning process during adolescence. Just ask any parent. Who else to look to.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover common reasons your website may need a revamp, including: Your content is out of date. Your content is out of date. When your nonprofit’s website content is out of date, your audience won’t be able to find the information they need to get involved. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A year-end fundraising appeal is the persuasive content a nonprofit organization uses to ask for financial support for at the end of the year (aka during the height of the giving season). Use language from your appeal to set up default appeal content for an individual’s personal fundraising page. What Is A Fundraising Appeal?

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

I saw the look of hope on the children’s face and how they began to envision a future filled with possibility.” The organization you are fundraising for may have content or options for you to choose from. They had little financial resources to provide a stable and secure home for their kids. Why should they care?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the content (which most people skim in about 13 seconds or less). Anything you brainstorm that doesn’t fit in your fundraising email can be added to a list of content ideas for social media or a newsletter. Make the Ask using as specific language as possible. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Because when you look around at today’s crises — whether that’s the recent floods in Pakistan or providing meals to children during the pandemic — you see nonprofits helping, solving, and rebuilding. Here are some of the highlights: Five Weeks to “A Miracle”: The Ukrainian Red Cross’s Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards. As you create marketing content, use storytelling strategies. But what makes these fundraisers so successful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content as well as do good in the world. In NYC, in the back of the auditorium, there was a multi-language rumble going on as translators were translating speaker’s remarks into 7 languages.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. If you provide opportunities for children, show children getting opportunities they might not otherwise have. Now that you have an anchor story, add more stories and engaging content to your home page. Show different facets of your work.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. There are lots of ways to create content your donors will find valuable. You’re talking to people who have already indicated that they care about what you do and what you have to say. So engage your donors by speaking like a person.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

If someone asked you whether museums should or need to have text in more than one language, what would you say? Maybe you are in a country that mandates multiple languages, or at an institution already committed to bi- or multi-lingual interpretation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

For the most part, the English language textbooks were as modern as textbooks you'd see in mainland U.S. The books in the local languages were not in as great a shape. In this school, they also had content in Pingelapese, which is a dialect related to the main island language, Pohnpeian.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This can be done in many different ways, such as hosting the event using live-streaming services or converting the event content into videos for an email sequence. For example, an education foundation may want to invite parents of current students to an event differently than community members who do not have children in the district. .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This can be done in many different ways, such as hosting the event using live-streaming services or converting the event content into videos for an email sequence. For example, an education foundation may want to invite parents of current students to an event differently than community members who do not have children in the district. .

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Our team recommends employing appends such as age demographics, number of children in the household, interests and hobbies, and communication channel preferences for maximization. By honing in on outcome language – what you alone can do because of the unique impact you make in this world – donors will naturally gravitate toward giving.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Also check out the work Microsoft did with the Missing Children Society of Canada and the Calgary Police Department. These partners deployed Azure services to create a system for helping to more quickly and reliably rescue missing children. Allow your readers to engage with the content. Language has power, so wield it carefully.

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Then simply grow your message around that language. Their supporters may refer to those same beneficiaries as “our children” or “the future of our country”. A special video message just for recurring donors or early access to new content can be just as impactful. . Not every perk needs to be monetary either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work. Science has an answer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 8, 2008

I saw aspects of American and Japanese society overlaid on a societies trying to preserve their traditions and languages. Some of these interactions lead to disabilities, such as the children blind from Vitamin A deficiency, which didn't happen before rice supplanted traditional foods.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The top 13 on page SEO factors for content marketing. What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Top 13 On Page SEO Factors For Content Marketing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If you spend any time working with foundations, you’ll notice a central thread in the stories told by their leaders, in the content posted to their websites, and in the information they share with the news media. Every industry has its own language. When you use insider language and complicated words, you create barriers.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2014

A few of the letters include language I haven’t heard since my high school economics class. And why are so many executives content to let it out into the world? So try to avoid language such as: “We know how important our organization is to you…”. Why do so many fundraising and development pros write bad copy?

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Then simply grow your message around that language. Their supporters may refer to those same beneficiaries as “our children” or “the future of our country”. A special video message just for recurring donors or early access to new content can be just as impactful. . Not every perk needs to be monetary either.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Craft a strong appeal by sourcing your content early. SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Make sure the links to any campaign pages or relevant blog posts appear in homepage modules that feature content. Campaign Page.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

On the international front, Catholic Relief Services has strong imagery and a simple message, “Help children and families around the world.” Optimize Your Content for Your Location. First of all, make sure your language is geared towards your city. Search engines look for addresses and phone numbers for local optimization.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Avoid an overly sweet or flowery language or imagery. An example of this may be children in your after-school program singing a song or a food pantry volunteer expressing joy while receiving a large gift of toiletries. Keep your message simple and straight-forward with a goal of inspiring viewers to give.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. They’ll share your content. As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Very good question.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Power Up Your Content: Mastering the Art of Compelling Storytelling Discover the secrets of storytelling that make your nonprofit stand out! Learn how to create powerful, heartwarming content that draws in your audience and inspires them to support your cause like never before. ”) 9.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. To some extent, it's externally-driven.

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