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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

Offering examples of how to put the guidelines into practice: Providing concrete examples of how to put the guidelines into practice will help people understand how they can apply them in their everyday lives. If you want to create a basic style guide, you can use a Google Doc or another word processing software.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Quick pre-RFP conversations are very helpful for getting better quality proposals.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs. But, as my example indicates, things do not always work as expected.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

That is the donor’s responsibility under IRS guidelines. In accordance with IRS guidelines, we do not place a value on inkind gifts. State the type of gift, but don’t attach any value to it. For example, “Thank you for your generous gift of 10 cases of bottled water for our community event. Our tax ID number is 11-1111111.

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10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Social Change Book Club

Have Fun - Do Good

Create book selection guidelines. Over time we've come up with the following loose guidelines: It has to be nonfiction with a "social changey" theme. Start a Google Doc where people can add ideas for future books 10. Our discussions last about 60-75 minutes. Rotate who picks the book. We go in alphabetical order by first name.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

Set your own benchmarks: Guidelines, benchmark reports, and best practices are helpful to know, but ultimately its important to know your audience. Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use virtual tools to manage campaign internally (Yammer, Google Docs, Listening Dashboards, Private Facebook Groups, etc). This, of course, requires having staffing guidelines for participation. Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think. Develop shared language. Cross disciplinary teams.