The MatrixFiles

MAY 1, 2024

Matrix Group is officially 25 years old today. For a change, Leah Monica, Director of Marketing at Matrix Group, interviewed me about my personal journey and the journey of Matrix Group. If you want to read about the first 10 years at Matrix Group, here’s a blog post I wrote back in 2009 ! looks like.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Remember to visit the Community Voices group to connect with the rest of the conversations going on there.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Remember to visit the Community Voices group to connect with the rest of the conversations going on there.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a shift that many groups struggle to implement. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. It’s not a coincidence that trust is a frequent topic of these conversations. Although there are still groups that look too much alike, every association is a brighter rainbow than it once was.

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Classy

AUGUST 18, 2021

True to form, it is not surprising that our employees organically created what would soon be employee resource groups around common interests, identities, and causes. . We quickly understood that these groups, which we named Classy Communities, were the heartbeat of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement at Classy.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Let’s say you’ve taken the important step of hosting a focus group for your nonprofit. A focus group will likely have both written and recorded data. Whether you’ve collected the audio over a video call, traditional phone conversation, or a recording of an in-person event, you have numerous transcription options. Voice Notes.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 10, 2022

Thought leadership material allows you to begin a conversation with your unique industry insights. Have ongoing conversations with staff about the member experience and how to best represent their voice in thought leadership content to make materials insightful, engaging, and authentic. Learn more.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Most groups navigated the unusual challenges and got work done. Senders lose track of what they casually launched into cyberspace, and recipients struggle with the distracting chatter of too many digital voices. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, there are fewer quality online materials representing the viewpoints of certain racial groups. AI picks up biases against those groups. An overreliance on majority culture data means other voices get diminished. Have frank internal conversations about priorities. Here are some tips: Discuss values upfront.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. There are also more and more opportunities emerging for people to coordinate global conversations that happen at the same time, instead of disconnected over time (still tied together via hashtag). What do those # mean? Consider your time.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

You want to ensure all voices from the communities you serve are reflected throughout your organization, especially on your board. You understand that you’ll need a variety of voices to find solutions to the challenges your organization encounters. They feel valued and respected for who they are and what they bring to the conversation.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. Pictures are great conversation starters. Group chat.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A group of concerned nonprofit leaders in the Washington, D.C. Those conversations led to the Washington Area Women’s Foundation ’s (WAWF) report Thrive As They Lead: Advancing the Infrastructure to Support Black Women Leaders in the D.C. Suppose you don’t have the benefit of a cohort, group, or coach you can use as a sounding board.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I Sponsor, Sponsor, Sponsor!

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Joanna Pineda, founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. It’s a good idea to include people from outside your organization’s playing field who can introduce a different point of view and push the group forward.” Giving employees voice and recognition are a high priority.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Team members make a WhatsApp group, and once the group is established the members are easily reachable by a message sent directly to their mobile phones. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 29, 2021

Pride is not just a celebration of LGBTQ+ voices, culture, and experiences — it also creates visibility for under-represented groups and encourages us all to be our authentic selves. Throughout Pride month, Salesforce’s equality group Outforce brings together employees who are members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.

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Media Cause

JULY 29, 2022

Being creative means thinking outside of the box and allowing your imagination to have a voice. Don’t be afraid to contribute and be a part of conversations. Next time you have a chance to contribute your perspective to a conversation, take the small step and share! Anyone can be creative, it’s a mindset.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Having a conversation with your community of stakeholders is an essential activity for nonprofits. In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Conversation. Technology.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Host a thank-a-thon Put simply, this is when you gather a group of volunteers (preferably board members) to call and thank donors. It should sound like a conversation (not like a thank-you script a robot might write). Your voice mail or email? Why board members, you ask? Thank you for helping homebound seniors. Much lower!

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The recent focus on social determinants of health adds even more energy to the conversation about exchanging and updating agency, referral and service data. Visionlink adds its voice to both the concept and the deployment of this standard. We encourage our partners and the community at large to join in this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

And traditional media coverage is now increasingly driven by conversation and content that starts off in the online space, on the communications platforms and channel driven by nonprofits themselves. But it takes content: you’ve got to feed those media platforms and seed those conversations. Content is King.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Conversion: The client returns to your site to complete their registration and receives an automated confirmation email from your organization. For example, if your goal is to increase sales, you’ll need to track the campaign’s conversion rate. To make completing the process easy, you link to the half-completed form.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward. Proclamation requests: It’s easy to generate proclamations from cities, counties, and states declaring a specific day or month in honor of a cause or group. Advocacy is a long-term calling.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

But no matter how your nonprofit is doing good in our world, there will always be ways your work and mission are affected by legislation, policies, and local and national events, which means there will always be reasons to make your voice heard. Key takeaways.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

Younger individuals from the Millennial generation, as well as some from Gen X and Z groups, will soon become the lifeblood of the nonprofit sector – being transitioned nearly $30 trillion over the next 20 years from their predecessors, the Baby Boomers. In 2015, 87% of total charitable contributions in the U.S. were made by individuals.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This process will allow you to learn about your audience, gain feedback through conversations, provide support to your community when needed, and build one-on-one (or one-to-many) relationships on social media. Maintain your brand voice. Your community engagement should be aligned with your brands overall voice and messaging.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

At Allegiance Group, when we talk about fundraising writing, we focus primarily on direct mail and email appeals directed toward individual donors. While the marketing and fundraising teams should work together towards a common goal, there are key differences in the language, voice, and content of their writing.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Within each group are form fields (i.e.,

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Use the donor data in your nonprofit’s constituent relationship management system (CRM) to segment donors into groups based on shared characteristics and preferences. For example, you can create groups based on supporters’ giving habits, such as donation recency, type, amount, frequency, and reason for donating.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Based on shared identity, empathy, and understanding , connection moves primarily self-centered individuals toward group-centered membership. Without that sense of connection, employees will never each their full potential," states Stallard.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

Your next game-changing testimonial could be just a conversation away. Consider using surveys, direct interviews, or informal conversations to initiate this process. Highlight Diverse Voices Ensure that the testimonials you collect and showcase represent a diverse range of perspectives.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Frida Berry Eklund: My climate-parent group, Våra barns klimat, founded Our Kids’ Climate in 2015, with an aim to bring the perspective of concerned parents to the UN Climate Summit in Paris. We need to normalize those conversations, and then involve our children in acting with us for the climate. Pictured: Devi Thomas’ sons.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. How many of them actually invite you to have a conversation with them? Encouraging conversations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

In our Thought Leadership Spotlight, we’ll be hosting a conversation about organizational resilience and embracing a digital-first future. I’m looking forward to the session, Amplifying Underrepresented Voices in Tech. Jarrod Bell, Chief Information Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Because it’s Free!

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