Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. As a team, we discussed opportunity areas that emerged from our early conversations with the Community Fellows. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. Gregory Ciotti wrote about the 5 most persuasive words in the English language and how “certain power words hold more sway over our decision making process than others.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." What language is this?

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Think about having a conversation with a person who has made a donation in the past and might make another donation. It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We Make the Ask using as specific language as possible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

So everyone understands the language, what it is what we’re intending to do, and it’s tied then to metrics, that it’s a shared metric system. So what I’ve seen happen has been around Valley of the Sun United Way ’s "ending homeless” objective, and we've focused around chronically homeless. So, that’s the second element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. They tried using social media to contact foster youth and are finding less success in reaching foster youth who are parents, have mental illness, or are homeless. But, most nonprofits do NOT collect feedback in an ongoing, systematic way.

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JUNE 11, 2023

For example, an animal shelter might use an offer like: “For just $6.20, we can provide a day’s worth of food, shelter, and medical care for a homeless dog or cat.” For example, a soup kitchen might use this offer: “For $1.87, we can provide a hot meal to a homeless person.” Avoid jargon, acronyms, and insider language.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. to get the conversation started. But those concerns are real.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For more, read a deep dive into each of the six episode focuses: nutrition insecurity, health equity, workforce development, homelessness, mental health, and climate action. Reframing our language is an important step to understanding the root cause of social issues in our world today. It’s not just a matter of food.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

They aren''t intended to force fit our work to aspirational language; instead, they are intended to make transparent that which is existing but ephemeral. We''ve gotten pretty good at doing this at museum programs, but it gets more complicated when we are working with a bonded group like a homeless center or a school tour.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

I’m proud of our partnerships with the Homeless Service Center, Second Harvest Food Bank, UCSC, the Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations that are at the heart of the Santa Cruz identity. I look forward to more strategic partnerships that support community development broadly in our county.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

They aren’t interested in large-scale issues like ending homelessness — that goal feels too big. But providing meals and blankets for the homeless people in their community is more attainable. More importantly, avoid technical language or jargon. Donors don’t trust large organizations and can spot platitudes a mile away.

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JUNE 11, 2023

The letter should read in a friendly, conversational tone and include an interesting story that grabs the reader by the heartstrings. Use “you” language. Even if your donor loves your mission, they won’t brave a thick wall of words to figure out what you want. Don’t tell the donor that your organization made the difference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2022

Have hard conversations with donors about their expectations and biases. Use inclusive language and person-first language in donor and community communications. I don’t think people are opposed to it because when we do it in little conversations, one at a time, people are like ‘oh that makes sense.’”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. So, it was pretty clear that there were domestics in the parks. I was somewhat lazy in doing that work.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

In other words, should the elevator speech include language that refers to the role the donor plays in the organization? We house homeless women and children. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. Keep it conversational – write like you talk. Telling your story. Q: What is my story?

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Achieve

APRIL 22, 2015

Many people are attracted to one form of giving over the other, but philanthropists have begun to dominate the national giving conversation. I worked for an organization whose mission was to break the cycle of homelessness in our community, and we were laser-focused on helping our clients lead independent lives free from any public support.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And I’m going to tell you how to get them to do it and what the conversation should be about as we go through this because I think a lot of times a lot of people focus in on asking and that is not what it’s about. And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation. So keep that in mind.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. But just saying, “We helped 20 people who are homeless,” does not provide context.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I can’t tell you how many, I was going to say arguments, conversations that we had at the agency about which was the right monetary amount to go after. You can use your own language, however you want to do it. This is just a great example of how this organization did it, and it’s language that they’ve used before.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Users can also choose from a list of ten languages to translate the website into, which expands the support potential for the organization. Stickers can indirectly reach out to your supporter’s network, start conversations based on the stickers you’ve sent out, and broaden your donor network. Business cards.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

During our conversation, I was particularly moved by her revelation that she started Women for Women International not only to fill a social need, but also for her own healing. Our conversation began with Zainab describing how Women for Women International serves women survivors of war. When we met her, Honorata was homeless.

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