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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Creative-problem solving on a small budget.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. That is not design thinking.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause.

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Nonprofit Market Research: What It Is & How To Get Started

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This information— what you want to learn— is referred to as your objective. Where would you like to test your hypotheses against actual research? With clearly defined objectives, you’ll have guideposts to refer back to throughout the process and keep your team on track. Step 3: Design your market research survey.

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The PREP Method of Design: Start with the Right Questions to Appeal to the Right Audience

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While the characteristics of your audience are important, they should not be the first thing dictating your design direction. and “How can we translate that to our website in a user friendly design?” . Since we are a culture of acronyms, I fondly call it the “PREP” method: Plan – Research – Execute – Proact. (I

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Text Fundraising: The Ultimate Guide

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When researching text fundraising , you may see it referred to by many different names, including text to donate, text to give, SMS fundraising, text giving, mobile giving, or text to pledge. It’s easy to share the campaign through social media or between friends because the only thing to remember is the keyword and designated number.

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