Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Imagine a thriving online community where members make meaningful connections and contributions. They have access to experts who can help them solve their toughest challenges. They can easily expand their networks by finding people who share their interests. They create a culture of reciprocity by sharing their experience and expertise.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2024

At first glance, it would be easy to put a gloomy headline on the Council on Foundations ’ most recent CF Insights field survey tracking trends in community foundations’ 2022 asset growth, giving, and the activity of donor-advised funds (DAFs). Still, at $112.7 billion, total assets in 2022 were well above 2020 totals.

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Charity Village

MAY 25, 2023

The Catamount Fellowship, led by the Institute for Community Prosperity, announced a call for community partners. The fellowship is designed to be a springboard for students preparing to lead social change upon graduation through innovation in movements, organizations, businesses and/or government.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But as a community health center, you’re already running on lean margins, which makes it even harder to carve out time to implement new software. That’s why it is vital to make sure your team is prepared for the change and ready to identify the improvements that will increase your community health center’s efficiency and accountability.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 22, 2024

Across the nation, city leaders strive to build resilient cities, serve their residents, and strengthen their communities economically, socially, physically, and beyond. The second playbook focuses on measuring and communicating impact in meaningful ways. This effort has been made even more pressing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

Water.org’s monthly donors are truly transforming poverty to possibility one person, one family, one community at a time. Designed to create an ongoing, reliable source of revenue for the organization– monthly donations are a worthy pursuit for non-profits. The value of efficiency. Why monthly giving matters.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

Service design principles can be applied to the social sector to craft audience experiences that create positive change in the world. Overall, here are four key reasons why service design is important to nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies. They are using service design to better serve their community’s changing needs.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Jones Instagram: alex_n_jones Website: Alex’s website Nonprofit: To Write Love on Her Arms ( Instagram , website , store ) Title: Senior Graphic Designer How long have you worked at To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA)? What role does design play in TWLOHA’s history and present-day work? I came on board with TWLOHA in early 2016.

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Hands on Fundraising

MARCH 22, 2022

Whether you’re dedicated to providing mental health care to teens in marginalized communities or working to raise awareness about environmental issues, it’s people who care that help you […]. The post Designing Your Nonprofit Website To Look the Part: 5 Tips appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Effective online marketing can open up many opportunities to engage with your supporters. Optimize your nonprofit digital content with these five ideas.

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Imagine a thriving online community where members make meaningful connections and contributions. They have access to experts who can help them solve their toughest challenges. They can easily expand their networks by finding people who share their interests. They create a culture of reciprocity by sharing their experience and expertise.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Creative design and personalized messaging can help donors visualize their impact, see themselves as part of your community, and feel inspired to make their next gift. It’s not too late to engage donors in 2023 with a custom-designed, creative holiday stewardship campaign, calendar year end or winter appeal.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can be helpful to think of these tools not as separate elements but as complementary forces in your mission to engage, nurture, and expand your community of supporters. Enter Bloomerang, a CRM solution specifically designed for nonprofits. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and fundraising tools play a significant role.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

This more just and equitable approach to philanthropy has been practiced for decades and the ethos it is based in—that those closest to the problem are the closest to the solutions—has deep roots in community organizing, deliberative democracy, and even in philanthropy itself. . and “How should we iterate?”

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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. Community is key: working with, not for.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

Two of our most used service design activities are ecosystem mapping and service blueprinting. Next time you face a problem and aren’t sure how to begin, try one of these service design methodologies to get started. We’d love you to join our innovative community of nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies. Get in touch!

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Article In Brief: The Problem: Nonprofits have long known the value of building community, but our voices have been ignored or devalued. Now we are learning that valuing private profit over community has brought us to the edge of extinction.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Government of Canada is accepting applications for projects under the Sport for Social Development in Indigenous Communities program. Through the program, $3.75 million is available for projects serving First Nations, Inuit and Métis women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people.

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Charity Village

JUNE 9, 2023

Coaches Association of Ontario and Hydro One launched the Community Coaching Grant program which is designed to offset the rising costs of sports in Ontario. The purpose of the grant program is to ensure that youth have the opportunity to participate in sports at an accessible cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I even facilitated design labs to help with the research for my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I admit it.

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DipJar

AUGUST 12, 2021

A strong design with a user-friendly interface can lead not only to more donors, but larger donations and recurring gifts. . Fortunately, all nonprofits can optimize their website to increase their fundraising potential, even those without a web design expert on staff. Make your donation button highly visible. Use engaging images.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Principles of Community Organizing. First, identify what your community wants to do – what it is coming together around, whether it’s an event, an action, or a movement. Transparency.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you aren’t a designer yourself, the design process can seem like a mystery. It can also grow your understanding of design. It can also grow your understanding of design. That’s why I’m sharing my design process with you. The post The Design Process Series: Creating a Logo appeared first on Media Cause.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you aren’t a designer yourself, the design process can seem like a mystery. It can also grow your understanding of design. It can also grow your understanding of design. That’s why I’m sharing my design process with you. The post The Design Process Series: Creating a Logo appeared first on Media Cause.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

They saw the need for something different than a food bank, which is designed to provide short-term emergency support, and launched the Your Local Pantry scheme. YLP wanted to know which members of the community are benefitting from the service and how many families and children are being supported. Sustainable Set Up for Growth.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? There are a few steps to successful audience-centric design: Identify Your Audience: Understand all of the groups your serve and find out what makes them tick. Engaging Visual Design. That’s a great question. Audience Analysis.

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Forum One

MAY 10, 2021

When designing and developing a website or application, a challenge is that roles and tasks can often operate in silos. To tackle this challenge, we recently piloted a new component-based design approach that prioritizes real-time collaboration. Component-based design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Salesforce.org is excited to announce the release of the Salesforce.org Community Impact Report 2022. Salesforce.org Drives Community Impact Through its Products. Our customers are surrounded with support from an ecosystem of incredibly dedicated partners and the best and largest tech for social impact community anywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Who is the community?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

Enterprising nonprofit staff (usually GenXers) with a love for the Internet created communities on Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook in 2004/2005 and most often without executive buy-in. Graphics Designed by Bureau for Good. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Community Impact Report 2022. Although the challenges we’re facing as a global community continue to compound, our global community of change makers in the nonprofit and education sectors continues to address these challenges head-on to drive tangible and inspiring social impact.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2021

Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community. Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

Whether it’s community services, donor relations, governance, volunteer management, or communications, data plays a critical role in telling the story and uncovering the insights required to develop a response. . DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. Install Version 2.17

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If we fail to meet WCAG, we are excluding important current and potential community members from being able to engage with our web content, which goes against the very nature of our work. . As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions. Important Resources for Following WCAG.

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VisionLink

APRIL 11, 2024

Is your organization prepared to respond and support during a community-wide disaster? Thanks to the design assistance of so many relief agencies and partners, Visionlink's platform continuously evolves and constantly improves--the most advanced and comprehensive platform in the nation. Want to learn more? Visionlink.

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