Achieve

MARCH 30, 2016

While the typical solicitation often includes language from an organization’s mission and values statements, it rarely appeals to potential supporters with a unique and compelling proposition. Here are a few examples of the kind of language that works well when presenting your “ask”: “Opportunity to…”. Think of it this way.

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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. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

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? " What do you think? Blackbaud, Inc. Official press release here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications. Curated content relevant to your mission. Be generous with endorsing the skills of others as endorsements are often reciprocated.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo. Give foreign language students and cultural club members the opportunity to share their knowledge and cultures with their peers and the wider school community with an “Around the World” virtual festival. Design challenge. John Center for Homeless Men. Bingo night.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. Your organization’s donors don’t just interact with the development office.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2016

Is cancer more important than homelessness, child abuse a higher priority than infant mortality? This post is designed to step you through that process. For example, what if you do web design? These questions are impossible to answer and vary dramatically person by person. Are there residents close by with specific needs?

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Get Fully Funded

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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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Your donors have probably seen the same type of language from nonprofit organizations and businesses alike regarding COVID-19. At this point, all the language around “these trying times” and “unprecedented needs” and how you’ve had to “pivot” to adjust are white noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Designing an Effective Feedback Loop. There are several issues our nonprofit partners have considered in designing their feedback loops, including the timing and frequency of feedback collection. Following the tips below can help you design the feedback loop that is most effective for your organization. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Use “you” language. Consider the design. Both the letter and the envelope it arrives in can be designed to attract the donor’s attention. If you’re not much of a designer, hire someone to help with this part. Don’t tell the donor that your organization made the difference. Where does it draw your eye?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Designing a new program. 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. You're planning a new exhibition. But those concerns are real.

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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. I jumped in and started talking about how we are designing furniture for it, that we''ve been focusing on injecting warmth in gallery spaces, that it is energized and peopled during events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Whether it’s a “We’re Open” sign or social media graphics, practically all for-profit businesses and nonprofits alike use at least one type of graphic design. Graphic design is the key to making your nonprofit’s valuable information approachable, engaging, and highly digestible. What are Types of Graphic Design for Nonprofits?

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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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Qgiv

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It has been translated into over 500 languages and its proclamation day of December 10th has been established as Human Rights Day. Founded by Edward and Janell Parker, the organization focuses on providing support for homeless, low income, and poverty-level households. On December 9, 2001, President George W. Final thoughts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one. To capitalize on technology, the industry must develop common language and integrated systems that make whole-person health the standard of care. A McKinsey report found that “individuals with poor mental health are 1.9

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Use the same language over and over throughout all interactions with donors and prospects, including asks, newsletters, and social media posts. Use Canva to create an image with this single message to use in your campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. Fashion show – Have your participants design/put together an outfit and then show it off on the runway.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Effective nonprofit web design matters more than ever before. This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Mobile-responsive design. Streamlined navigation. High-quality visuals.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups. Why do homeless people smell bad?” Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? A scientific investigation for all ages.

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