sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Learn the language and history. Talk to your funder, peers, and internal experts to ensure that you understand the language of grants and other funding sources. With many initiatives in a rapidly changing environment, it can be challenging to keep staff engaged throughout the process. Seek clarity. Keep the momentum going.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 13, 2023

By celebrating different cultures, your nonprofit can help create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for immigrants. Collaborating with local immigrant communities and organizations Teamwork makes the dream work! Your nonprofit can amplify its impact by collaborating with other organizations that share similar goals and values.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’re pleased to be seeing a growing focus on products and product strategy among government agencies and nonprofit organizations, developing products and approaches that advance progress in health, the environment, and beyond. Mission-Driven Product Examples Products can be websites, but not all websites are products.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. Language barriers For those who are not fluent in English, language barriers can create additional challenges and make it difficult to access certain opportunities and succeed in certain fields.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our guest speaker, Erica Dhawan — a leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation — offered some excellent insights and examples of how leaders can harness this moment to listen, learn, embrace the changes we have seen, and use it to build a better new normal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

You kindly ask for assistance in Spanish, but are told they do not have anyone who speaks your language; you are worried and in need of assistance, but are just not comfortable speaking in English. Audit your organizations printed materials, online activity and physical environment in relation to your clients and community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

" Given his vantage point, it's no surprise that he has a unique perspective on the merits of cloud-enabled professional collaboration. Wulf shared a personal example of how online collaboration has positively changed the way his daughter, Karin, works. Tags: Influence Collaboration. What say you?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

My contribution is “Creating a Culture of Philanthropy While Doing the Work,” and focuses on ways to encourage effective cross-departmental collaboration. The piece provides some practical recipes that can help build collaboration muscles while getting stuff done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. That's the vision for his company and work.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. Whether you are hosting a small virtual meeting or a massive online corporate event, you will want to actively encourage participation and collaboration.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. Developing an agreed-upon language to describe those qualities. The willingness to treat your colleagues with respect and the ability to collaborate creates a healthy environment.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Relationships that had been tenuous in the office became untenable in the remote environment. But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Ultimately, this collaborative approach not only drives financial success but also cultivates long-term relationships between the nonprofit and its supporters. Team fundraising reduces anxiety by creating a supportive environment where individuals share the fundraising journey.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. Whether you are hosting a small virtual meeting or a massive online corporate event, you will want to actively encourage participation and collaboration.

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

A Look Into the Classy Work Environment. Margaret: It’s just such a positive environment day to day. It’s a collaborative team. I also came without any nonprofit experience, and the training helped me understand nonprofit language, the buying habits, the product, and the industry. What’s it like to work with these folks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Natural Language Processing. Instead, there are multiple culture types that create the right environment for data driven nonprofits to take shape and grow. Culture of Sharing: There is a willingness to share data and collaborate to achieve better results and a disdain for creating or maintaining data silos. Machine Learning.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And I wonder if you could share a little bit about how it’s been for you to be working with this imagery, this visual language that you’re creating? The two of you collaborated recently on a piece illustrating a poem by Dr. Dorceta Taylor , who’s one of the leading thinkers in the world on environmental justice.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

Beyond making the application available, Jozef and his team are eager for collaborators on the next stage of the movement to end illegal dumping. " Trashout is currently available in 12 languages. If you’d like to add a language feel free to, Jozef and his team would be thrilled.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, they may collaborate with your donor recognition team, event planner, volunteer coordinator, and marketing manager. There are two primary parts of a solicitation to keep in mind: the meeting setting and the language you use to ask for a donation. In this case, you’re leading up to making the ask for a major contribution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors. We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

This week, we've got ten tips to help your nonprofit find ways to use technology innovations to work more effectively while cutting back your impact on the environment through travel and commuting. Not only does travel use up money and valuable time that you could be spending in other ways, but it's costly to the environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

If you don’t have an open environment inside your company or country, these new tools will blow you wide open. I is for individuals, who are able to reach around the globe to start something or collaborate on something farther, faster, deeper, cheaper than ever before — as individuals. C is still for collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

In my usual collaborative, expansive, and generous self I've often encountered tremendous resistance to this kind of behavior. Influence is still part of the persuasion language - that's why I don't do posts that endorse products or projects in isolation. We learn to take cues from our environment early on by reading body language.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

Yet even in the most optimal open work environments, certain tasks, meetings, trainings, and creative processes are either impossible or severely limited if employees can't meet face-to-face. He also talks about developing a "results-only" work environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Develop shared language.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Join Krista, Libby, Lisa and many more inspirational speakers at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions for sessions dedicated to nonprofit wellbeing and resilience. Ask for help when it’s appropriate with clear language. Don’t Miss the Chance to Hear From Them live. Get Registered Now for Free.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 21, 2011

2] Acculturation is the process by which individuals change in adapting to demands of a new environment (Berry, 1997), [3] including language, cultural identity and stress, and citizenship and generation status. Click here to read "Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Networking" by Jessica Sadoway. Like this article?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. Jargon jargon everywhere, but not a drop to drink … Becoming familiar with the commonly used language in the crypto community may help with communication designed to reach that audience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

He is fluent in Spanish (for a non-native speaker) and one of his main areas of study is bilingual interpretation in out-of-school environments. If someone asked you whether museums should or need to have text in more than one language, what would you say? Bilingualism in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. Naming fears, too.

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