Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Tip #3: Use proactive language for more effective fundraising copy. Evidence-based practices offer a solid foundation for achieving this goal. The results showed that when board members give more, the nonprofit tends to receive more donations from outside.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. These are examples of AI analytic tools that are available at multiple price points and levels of complexity. It offers various pre-built tools and connectors for easy data integration and analysis.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns. They made Foundation Directory more accessible by removing the paywall for small nonprofits when they earn a Gold Seal of Transparency.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Very general and vague words can generate very vague responses and language. In addition, these tools do not always know to avoid terms that are considered outdated or offensive. Is it accurate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT. The AI can suggest language that aligns with the SMART framework, aiding in conveying your goals succinctly. ” Instructions: Utilize the content types, audience types, constraints, and requirements from Step 5 as a foundation. Output as a table.”

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

What sets this apart is the collaboration of 100 artists from diverse countries, orchestrated by the Playing For Change Foundation. John Mayer’s anthem, chosen for its call to unite hearts and create a positive world, aligns with the foundation’s mission.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 17, 2024

2024 People: We can just use the free GPT tools to create and edit our documents. Special thanks to Eric Antebi from the California Health Care Foundation for this one Bigger is Different The high-level lesson across these stories is that bigger is different and that data/plastic from the past doesn’t just disappear.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Asking nonprofits to create a survey and email language to collect demographic data places an extra burden on their already limited time and resources.    As a nonprofit ourselves, we understand that staff are always hard-pressed for time. nonprofits and foundations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is making a bold and public move to use Candid’s GuideStar profile and demographic survey to track data from grant applicants and recipients. Brad: Nancy, what a pleasure to talk with you today about this groundbreaking partnership between the Packard Foundation and Candid.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” Other participatory grantmakers have developed new MEL tools to better reflect a power shift to grantee perspective on impact.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Here are a few questions to get you started: What is an appropriate ask amount for a nonprofit who has never been funded by your foundation? Fortunately, there are numerous free tools available online to help with prospect research. foundation profiles. foundation profiles. What is your process for selecting who you fund?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information. Center language justice in your content strategies. Language justice is the fair and equitable use of language in all aspects of society.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2021

Grants are a great funding resource— over $50 billion dollars are awarded by foundations to charitable organizations every year. Use simple, effective language to sell your program. Present the good that your program will do efficiently, without flowery, overly complicated language. Don’t use empty jargon in your proposal.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

But training and running large language models is expensive. For example, Candid’s Foundation Directory helps nonprofits identify potential sources of funding. We have the responsibility to ask: who is generative AI going to benefit most?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Questions Are Your Tools As a funder, one of your primary mechanisms for gathering information to guide your decision making is the questions you ask. Questions are critical tools for good grantmaking. Make small changes, perhaps tweak the language a little or edit the question into a simpler format. Rewrite the whole thing.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

By Andy Krackov, Assistant Vice President, Programs & Partnerships, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health At the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, we publish data on children's health and well being in California through our own www.kidsdata.org website.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Your online giving form is the primary instrument you use to process a donation, and it’s also the key tool you use for collecting valuable information about your donors. In digital philanthropy, it has never been more important to seek out and embrace innovations, especially innovations in online donation forms.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofits, corporate foundations, social enterprises, and organizations working in the social sector can struggle with how to approach understanding their impact: How do they know that changes in their beneficiary group are due to their interventions? Mexico border.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Foundations and corporate philanthropy programs receive floods of applications for new grant opportunities. We’ll explore some foundational storytelling strategies for grant writing, broken into two categories: tactical and stylistic. Why Does Storytelling Matter for Grant Writers? Strike the right middle tone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

So how can nonprofits use this powerful tool to build their movements, advance their causes, and raise money for their organizations? . In August 2018, Erin Turner, Product Manager for YouTube Giving, announced that they are rolling out a new suite of fundraising tools for nonprofits , including: Fundraisers. Community fundraisers.

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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. As such, it's a fair question to ask: Why do foundations continue to ask for this information when they might instead use technology to pre-populate applications from public sources? We reflected. We adapted. Research funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Think about AI and bots, and the algorithms that fuel them as tools that can swim through large pools of data pools of data, text, photos, and even videos. Their mission is to provide companies with the AI-driven tools they need to stop inappropriate behavior, bias, bullying, and discrimination in the workplace.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There are tools available on the web to calculate true cost. Nonprofits should consider the right person or foundation to approach. If it is not the right time to approach a major donor, there are foundations and other organizations that offer funding specifically for infrastructure projects and general operating support.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

It also helped us reframe what it means to have access to the tools that allow us to fully engage with the world around us. The fellowship is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors: Google Fiber and the Cleveland Foundation. A special thank you goes out to our founding sponsor, Google Fiber.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . Nonprofits need to follow WCAG because accessibility is the foundation of our work. Below I’ll provide the tools that support these principles.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

in 2022, making its growth faster than individual, foundation, and bequest giving. Then, you might have been asked why the receipt didn’t contain charitable tax receipt language. Using a matching gift search tool, they research their company’s program requirements. billion in just one year.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Include fundraising fees, the subscription costs for your donor management system and other online tools, insurance, postage for appeals … everything! The money you raise should come from a variety of sources including individual donors, foundations, and events. Find a tracking tool that works for you and use it.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2022

In order to help great people find great jobs in the social sector, we have created a comprehensive list of job posting sites, job boards, and non-traditional foundation sites, all for nonprofit job seekers. Once you’re ready to apply for a nonprofit job, consider checking your resume for non-inclusive language with this resume tool.

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Forum One

MAY 6, 2022

Digital platforms are the primary tool organizations use to communicate, engage, and interact with their audiences. Conversational marketing is a quick and personalized support mechanism for an organization’s website visitors.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

At a foundational level we know our current physical health can drastically impact our desire and ability to engage. It needs to be at the foundation of our efforts to drive holistic employee engagement. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re looking to brush up on language that may be better left unsaid, Ryan provides a list of words, along with thoughtful explanations, for the top things you may want to think twice before saying in 2022 and beyond. Melissa describes the opportunities and challenges in finding new individual donors and foundation support.

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Forum One

AUGUST 5, 2021

Digital platforms are the primary tool organizations use to communicate, engage, and interact with their audiences. Conversational marketing is a quick and personalized support mechanism for an organization’s website visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Much of the current language and practice around capacity development seems to have forgotten the roots of the capacity development movement of the 1980s. Tools, Tools, and more Tools. When social change issues are complex, we can sometimes default to creating a set of tools to make sense of them.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This includes two different avenues for giving: funding via company-sponsored foundations as well as direct giving by corporations. A pledge from Bristol Myers Squibb and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation offers somewhat less disaggregation.[ the NBA Foundation ). This data is available on our racial equity map.[

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

AI is a uniquely powerful set of technology tools for making sense of enormous amounts of data. Recently, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we published research on the impact AI is having on giving. Persado is another online fundraising tool using AI.

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