The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2021

A great way to generate storytelling content is by interviewing a variety of people that have benefited from your nonprofit’s work. These interviews can be useful not just for your grant writing, but can also be repurposed for your annual reports, marketing materials, and your nonprofit’s blog. How will your nonprofit make an impact?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. For example, you can answer these questions: What communication platforms do these individuals use? Simple language free of jargon.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. It is critical for you, foundation leadership, and community participants to be clear who is making which decisions. Is this you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I spoke their language by showing them traditional metrics like amount raised and number of email addresses acquired, and then was able to move onto the non-traditional metrics like fan growth and sentiment. Get on the networks and become a contributing part of the community. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is no shortage of highly talented leaders coming from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and many of them lead from within the nonprofit sector. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Effective advocacy, which leads to systemic and cultural change, starts with the stories we tell—and believe—about our own experiences, community, and world. Once you’ve done that initial digging, turn to your own community. Throughout your messaging, avoid passive language.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. and Canada about their technology use.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The emotional intelligence community, ourselves included, have taught that emotions such as anger and frustration should be banned from the workplace. Another misconception, in our experience, is that people at all levels of organizations sometimes feel helpless and think that without a formal title they cannot lead. In short, yes.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

In their research project “Exploring the Love Language of Fundraising,” Jen and Adrian are uncovering how often the nonprofit sector focuses on money within their messaging – “Your gift can” or “Thank you for your donation” – which establishes a transactional relationship with them. The outcome? It’s about how we hear and nurture them.”

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On its website, the Wikimedia Foundation describes Wikipedia in bold terms and five languages as “the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.” Given the vast scale of Wikipedia, it is not surprising that privacy and accuracy are also addressed clearly on the organization’s homepage.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Most often we take an interview-style approach to collecting stories. Going through an application and interview process. Volunteering with WAVAW was really about wanting to give back to the local community with my skills and expertise. Vivid and Gripping Language is Key. How are you reacting to the story?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. Avoid Complex Language and Narratives While all the nitty-gritty details behind a story might be interesting, too much jargon can be distracting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Idea Two: Disrupting the Prevention of Blindness in Rural Communities Andrew Bastawrous is an ophthalmologist and TED Fellow. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya. Andrew challenged me on that idea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. Eric recently emailed me to tell that he has put down his video camera down and is trying his hand(rather mouth)at some Larry King-style podcast interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. I was interviewed for the report).

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Fiver Children’s Foundation is a holistic youth development organization that makes a 10-year commitment to children, aged 8 to 18, from underserved communities in New York. Fiver encourage their community create their own peer-to-peer fundraising page on CauseVox and to make a personal donation. Insights From Fiver.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the community you serve, the social issue you’re tackling, or the change you want to make in the world. Gather new data directly from your target audience This can be collected through methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups. Use language and tone that reflect their preferences and communication style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. What language is this? And, if you want to add sub-titles in another language to a video, use dot.sub. Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report is based on quantitative and qualitative interviews with more than 1,600 nonprofit professionals in seven countries around the world. This learning trail covers the basics of gen AI, natural language processing basics, and much more. Many of the findings are surprising. Others are provocative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

What information will align with their desires and curiosities rather than simply what your organization wishes to communicate? Ideally, put some time aside to interview some real people. Four or more interviews with members of an audience can be amazingly helpful in understanding what will resonate.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. Seeing teachers, faculty, and parents turn a blind eye fueled my passion to be part of the community response to violence.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

However, these same nonprofits rarely have leadership and workforces reflective of their mission and the communities the organizations serve. In America, there is mistrust between some ethnic groups, language barriers, and general fear of outsiders among certain communities due to safety issues such as deportation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below. You can also listen to the interview on the player at the bottom of this post, on the Big Vision Podcast landing page , or on iTunes.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. It may seem like they’re repeating themselves, but repeating something in exactly the same language is not the same as repeating the message you want to get across in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. Bill Johnston has some additional thoughts for building a case for ROI for an online community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The 2022 crisis in Ukraine has shown that the crypto community can be moved to give at unprecedented levels as some estimates show that over $80M has been donated in just the first month of the conflict ( Crypto Donations for Ukraine Cross $83 Million Led by Ethereum & Bitcoin ). Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

They use machine learning combined with Natural Language Processing (NLP). This episode of The Nonprofit Innovators Podcast interviewed Direct Relief’s Thomas Tighe about success of Direct Relief’s customer service bot and the process for developing it. ” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2016

You may be familiar Goodwill as a place to shop, but the nonprofit does much more including helping people find jobs. In honor of Labor Day, Goodwill launches the #LaborofLove Campaign this week. I interviewed Beth Perell, VP of Communications and Information Management to learn more about the campaign strategy and goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. The Community of Practice includes diverse perspectives: community foundations and private philanthropies working across a range of issues. Story of Stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

You’ll want to put together a list of questions to help you determine if your community is on board, and then interview all the stakeholders. That includes: Board members Community leaders Staff members Major gift donors. What is our organization’s reputation in the community? Do you support the project?

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