sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Ideally, all nonprofit goals should have numerical measurements that are referred to as key performance indicators (KPIs). Without a clear understanding and representation of your outcomes, it can be hard to secure funding or make improvements to better serve your community. How do you present nonprofit outcomes?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g., disabled people”) as opposed to Person-First Language (e.g., However, proponents of the disability justice movement posit that disability is not a bad word, and efforts have been made to embrace Identity-First Language (IFL) and to reclaim the word disability itself.

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2021

Language — Is English the primary language of all your volunteer programs? Can you incorporate some other languages to include more people from your community? Take stock of your existing staff and volunteer language capabilities and incorporate different languages in your volunteer programs to make them more inclusive.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Because of the unique factors that come into play with each and every project, the Media Cause creative team uses several different approaches to help explore, establish, and implement a common visual language with our clients and development teams: m oodboards, style tiles, style guides, and stylescapes. . Moodboards. Style tiles.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling refers to narratives an organization shares (often called “impact stories”) as a way to illustrate its mission and connect with supporters on a personal, emotional level. Saviorism: This term is often referred to as the “savior complex” and is unfortunately common in philanthropy and volunteer work.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

Invest in multi-channel outreach Refer to your audience data to cast a wide net when planning your auction marketing communications. Ask sponsors and other community partners to hang up flyers, repost your Instagram announcements, and encourage their audience to sign up for your silent auction. Sponsor connections.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As nonprofits frantically recruit new hires, the people and communities these organizations serve suffer even more. In our new book, The Smart Nonprofit , we use the umbrella term “smart tech” to refer to technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subsets and cousins, such as machine learning, and natural language processes.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Dear What’s Enough, Congrats on receiving more tribute gifts, and good on you for considering the best ways to recognize the generous supporters who refer these gifts to you. Sample language: Give today. What would you suggest? — What’s Enough? This is definitely a case where it’s the thought that counts, not the money.].

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Take a look at your target audience’s time zone and reference research on engagement rates based on publishing times. Use a similar tone and language as your other accounts. Instead, leverage interactive content to grow your online community. When should you post? Use your logo as your profile picture.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, when asking for donations at Christmas , you might focus your messaging on the season of giving or use religious language if that aligns with your target audience’s values. These influencers could be board members who are well-known in your community or donors with large social media followings.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

I can guess this happens in every community, and it is frightening. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Maybe our community doesn’t know how to think in bold, innovative ways.” Please help now.” You might say about the second organization, “Wow!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s.

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Employ communication tools to grasp just how your donors explain their connection to the community you’re serving in their own words. 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”. Grab Your Virtual Event Toolkit.

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Virtual Collaboration Professional Tips 97

CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

This leads to higher levels of engagement, increased donations, and a stronger sense of community around the nonprofit’s cause. It also serves as a valuable reference throughout the entire campaign. For instance, “Habitat for Humanity provides simple, decent and affordable housing to communities in need around the world.”

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . As a designer for nonprofits, I constantly reference these guidelines when making design decisions.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By regularly driving new members to join, organizations stand to reap many rewards: Financial stability, sustainability, credibility, community support, and so much more. You don’t have to look far—you can reference data for current members or send them a survey to discover their interests and motivations. What Is a Membership Drive?

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! They did not have a preference in mind for the redesign when it came to the programming language, just a clear understanding of what they wanted supporters to be able to do. Epic Change is no different. That directed the build.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Maybe you’ve made a language guide to be mindful of how your chosen words may fall short of respectful representation. We’ve noticed a common practice on TikTok: referring to open captions as “CC” or “closed captions,” which is incorrect. These are all excellent and necessary steps. And heads up!

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Social Media Accessibility Media Social 128

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This not only helps grow your list of prospective donors but also shows the strength of your relationship with the referring donor. Communicating regularly through email and social media. 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.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent). How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent). Organizational Budgeting, Revenue Practices, and Forecasts (20 percent).

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

For context, when we talk about major donors, we’re referring to donors who make a significant gift to your org – one that’s above and beyond the typical gift that arrives in the mail. When making your ask, be precise, respectful, and keep your language easy for the donor to digest.

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Money Donor Tips Technique 64

Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Employ communication tools to grasp just how your donors explain their connection to the community you’re serving in their own words. 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”. Grab Your Virtual Event Toolkit.

Virtual 52

Virtual Collaboration Professional Tips 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

There are also special sections of your profile where you can list certifications, languages, patents, skills, and publications. In the spirit of merging the personal with the professional, you can help build your nonprofit’s brand recognition in the LinkedIn community by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon to your profile picture.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 18, 2018

For new donors, hearing about your organization from a trusted member of their community can be a powerful motivator for getting involved. Political marketing messages often include language that lets voters know that “many of their neighbors” are voters, and similar messages can be easily adapted for nonprofit use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

But when did we go from referring to social media as a tool to calling it the catalyst of a revolution? 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. Are they enhanced by social media?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. So engage your donors by speaking like a person.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You can take classes in different coding languages, from PHP to Ruby to Python. Reference Sites and Books. As Elliott pointed out in his post, it isn't the most user-friendly, but you can find tutorials, reference sheets, and more here. HTML Cheatsheet and HTML Dog are also helpful reference sites.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This article references the book The Politics of Design. You can see here, Kendra is in community, she is celebrating, and her face is not shadowed the way it is in this flyer. 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?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology. That’s why so many nonprofit staff still do not understand what someone means when they refer to the Cloud. Wrap your head around the Cloud. Can you opt-out of print materials?

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Social Media Media Management Social 247

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community. Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? Although that Commission refers more often to a voluntary sector, the idea of sectorness began to take hold. Mark Hager, Ph.D. Look at it this way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. And because of that, I learned about communities crowdfunding their parks and recycling programs. You’re going to connect more than to learn. That’s how I ended up at PdF.

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2012

This year we used language that was a little more inclusive, so that respondents would consider: "How many staff, excluding consultants, are responsible for supporting or maintaining technology-related tasks in your organization, in Full Time Equivalency (FTE)?" We've been asking about this since our first study in 2006.

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Benchmark Technology Nonprofit Survey 85

Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2012

The proliferation of social media has left many organizations playing catch up with their communications and privacy policies. Guided by TechSoup online community manager Michael DeLong , Nonprofits Live welcomed guest experts Alexandra Ross, senior counsel at Paragon Legal , and Jacob Chang, legal counsel for TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Develop shared language.

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