Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Sounds great, right? If I were working with her as an ambassador, I would look for ways to wrap an Ask in the language of dance so she could talk to her dance friends about donating. You know this billboard will be a game-changer for community engagement and help you reach more people. But, I wouldn’t assume.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sounds great, right? Fundraising is a game of balance. Spend the time to carefully craft what you want to say, then consistently use that language. This success can be YOURS this year! It takes carving out the time to think so you can create a year end fundraising strategy and plan. Asking too much and too often.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 27, 2021

They are playing the long game. If even a few months of cash reserves sounds insurmountable, take a breath. If that number sounds too steep, start with 5 percent or even 3 percent, with a plan to increase the percentage over time. And when you fundraise with the future in mind, you spend your time differently.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future. The Organization’s Role in Risk Funders’ punitive behaviors and risk avoidance have trained organizations to avoid risk and bury failure, resulting in massive amounts of waste. Almost never, right?

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

ammado is one that might not sound familiar, but don’t worry, their doing something really special. ammado supports 76 currencies and 12 languages. On top of creating a unique way to support charitable work HelpAttack built in a little social gaming to living things up and create fun competition amongst users.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. Large language models (LLMs), adept at communicating with human speech, represent a significant advance in computing. It was launched in November 2022.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. This sounds simplistic, but employees who are alone in a home office may find it more challenging to remember that their feelings and behavior have an impact beyond those four walls.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

And oh, let’s not forget the joy some of us found in rediscovering the wonder of board games, endlessly binging on Netflix, writing real handwritten letters, becoming new plant or pet parents (or both!), Count me in for that any day. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

I read a description this week of a new hidden object game that is based in a Mayan archeological dig. Most games grant players a certain amount of starter skill. Rare is the game that forces new players to truly enter as total novices. But those are skill-based games. Oh, really? What does this statement really mean?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This includes characters that look and sound like the coworkers, volunteers, and constituents learners will encounter— if your entire team isn’t blonde-haired and blue-eyed, your characters shouldn’t be. Use language and conversations that are reflective of what learners will encounter. Thank you for calling my telephone.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. All motivation to play comes from the players themselves, since it's not clear where the game is going or what the point is. The game website is clear.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Monthly giving can change the game for your new, young, or small nonprofit! As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Why More Monthly Givers? Let’s look at the math. If someone gives you a donation of $100, that’s great.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Students can create interactive stories, games, and animations to understand the basic concepts of programming before learning actual code. The hub has lots of helpful information on understanding Linux and how to write code for it in popular languages like C#, Java, JavaScript (via Node.js), PHP, Python, and more. Creating sounds.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Every year, there’s a Flash festival/conference, Flashforward , that highlights novel uses of flash in web navigation, art, games, instructional demos, and more. I have an emotional reaction to all of these flowers of goodwill, in different languages, shared for different reasons. That all sounds pretty New Age-y. I’m immersed.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

When you are brainstorming, your words might not sound so polished, which is fine. Make the Ask using as specific language as possible. You’ll find yourself in a losing game of wordsmithing which will be a huge waste of time. We hope to start our pilot program next month with six moms. Use bullet points if you need to.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts. Number 1, if this sounds like you, put a 1 in the chat. If that sounds like you, put it in the chat. So I want this to be interactive.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Mapping out a fundraising event, especially while taking COVID into consideration, can feel like a game of psychological chess between yourself and the world. Sound familiar? If you sound stressed, others will follow suit. The good news is, you’re a fundraising professional and if anyone can pull it off, it’s you!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. The language is personal, enthusiastic, and inclusive. But in this post, I wanted to highlight a goofy little (non-museum) project that inspires me in its simplicity and openness to mass collaboration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. You can create a new benefit for donors simply by choosing to use language about their donation that deepens their commitment. Get creative. Hear me out.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone''s definition of risk is different, and while museum professionals may share a common language around the topic, that commonality breaks down when you involve artists and technologists and game designers and performers. There were several moments during camp when I was felt a surge of anxiety, trepidiation, self-doubt.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology. Font sizing over 40 points can also help make text more readable. Johnson via Linkedin.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. While this may sound overwhelming, don’t let it discourage you. While it may sound like the logical thing to do, it will cause issues with search engines. As a result, your content will sound more natural to readers.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday may sound like a great one-off event for your organization, but you may also be worried about retaining donors in the long run. Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

His techniques sound a lot like model social media practice: listening, being respectful, and encouraging ordinary Christians (not just experts) to act as evangelists. Content in non-majority languages, strollers, and other affordances help too. Help people understand why you do what you do.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Take your fundraising game to the next level with a dedicated fundraising website. Here at CauseVox, we found that upping your content marketing game can increase your donations by 20%! Gamification is the use of game mechanics to influence your audience’s actions in non game-related situations. 6) Gamification.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It can be confusing sometimes to determine if the check is from a DAF or a family foundation, as the DAF could have a name that sounds like a family foundation. When you send a thank-you note for a gift received through a DAF, you do not include tax language, as the donor has already received the tax benefit from the bank.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, retail platform Big Cartel had some seasonal fun with its year-end email in 2015, turning their year of accomplishments into a board-game style timeline. They also tailored the language of the body text to focus on supporters versus the organization itself: “You blocked the Muslim ban. You saved our health care.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” So everything’s a guesstimate. Is it specific?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So one thing that you absolutely need to look at is, just like it sounds, when did they last give? I’ve got a little more skin in the game, right? Kari: We’ve got an example of this, because I know that some of you are going, “Well, that sounds confusing.” So don’t change the game.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# Sounds like it has great possibilities; time will tell. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2014

And if you want to really step-up your game, take a look at the new eBook about writing and designing fundraising appeals that work! ]. Along with crafting a compelling subject line , your first paragraph should include motivational language (as mentioned above) as well as the one thing you want your reader to remember.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. We played a round of the Social by Social game and it relies on this notion of the sweet spot. It might sound silly, but striving to be replaced is a core element to working with your community and operating holistically.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so I want you to see that that best gift scenario is a game changer. But they didn’t know how to take that relationship, grow it in that peer-to-peer kind of CEO to CEO type of investment level conversational language and lead them to their best gift. And when we looked at the 57, it was over $2 million. I got to find them.”

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