Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Depending on the size of your nonprofit, you might have numerous roles open at any given time. Implement inclusive language and content.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is especially true when your subject has opened up to you about a traumatic moment in their life. Define Goals and Objectives In storytelling for nonprofits, one of the most important questions you can ask is “why?” goals acronym). One goal you could attach to it is to attract a certain number of new donors.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the first part of this series, I talked about why you need to define your goals, your brand and voice, and your audience before crafting your story. This is why you need to look at your goals, measure your results, and tweak your stories based on that data. Use descriptive language. . You can read part one here.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To affect real change, each of us, from event organizers to team members, needs to be proactive and open to a range of voices, experiences, and perspectives. To help you create a more open, diverse, and inclusive virtual event, we’ve put together this list of tips and best practices. Use Inclusive Language.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate. This galvanizes the community around your fundraising goals.

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2021

For many nonprofit organizations, diversity and inclusion are considered a top priority in their annual goals, and for a good reason. Language — Is English the primary language of all your volunteer programs? Can you incorporate some other languages to include more people from your community?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Stories are much more powerful and motivating than merely using statistics or discussing administrative goals. Those things may be important, but only as a means to the real goal of helping make the world a better place. They need to know that goals are being met and lives are being improved. What’s Your Nonprofit’s Story ?

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

The goal of this approach is to allow best-of-breed services, technologies, and frameworks to be used in crafting digital experiences across various channels and touchpoints along the full user journey. Overall, Composable Architecture allows developers to use efficient and popular modern frameworks, tools, and languages.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . However, if you want to keep your audience engaged, it’s also important to show and tell them exactly how their support has helped your organization accomplish goals directly related to its mission. Show + Tell.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Voice Notes. Select the language of your recording. To do this, log into your Google account on any laptop browser and open the photo you want to use. Go back to your goals. Here are just a few of the apps you can use to transcribe your files: Google Assistant . Transcribe. Speechnotes. SpeechTexter.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes much more than just opening your doors to get donations to come your way. Studies show that fundraisers with specific goal amounts are more successful than open-ended fundraisers. Your donors want to SEE that their dollars REALLY do make a difference in moving you towards your goal. And YOU are their voice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Q: Do I know what my goals and guidelines are? Before anything else, make sure you understand who your audience is, and what the goal of your message is — whether that is revenue, petition signatures, clicks, education, or anything else. Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? Wonky language and jargon. In real life?

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

The GPT of ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a group of language models trained to generate human-like text developed by OpenAI. The goal is to raise $15,000. You will need to make sure all of the information that’s generated is accurate and that the appeal matches your organization’s voice and tone.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Be Realistic When it Comes to Goal-Setting Setting clear and realistic fundraising goals can also give nonprofits a strong predictor of upcoming campaigns. With the right tools and strategies in place, your development team can start working backward from an end goal of December 31st in July. We’re here to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

To design an effective bot, you first need to figure its purpose and how it connects to your goals. You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. Bots can also answer open-ended questions and get smarter as they go, if you train them. There are two design tasks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We just dedicated our first crowd-funding campaign, Bookshare for Veterans —part of the Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurs Challenge on CrowdRise—to this goal and are enhancing our outreach to veterans who need access to books and information. We’re also expanding our efforts to help more people in the U.S., million grant from the U.S.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What if you took those grueling 8 or 10 or 12 hours and divided them into manageable 2- or 3-hour sessions, each of which has a contained set of goals and builds on the one before? Some of these include: Working with more clear and defined goals for each session groups go further faster. You’re mentally and physically spent.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Krista prides herself on helping others discover their resilience and use it to achieve their goals. Ask for help when it’s appropriate with clear language.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Rapper and activist Sonita Alizadeh , an Afghan refugee who narrowly escaped being a child bride, opened the Summit with the debut of her new song “Brave & Bold,” which certainly set the stage for the rest of the day. Be sure to check out the last session to learn how to say “Social Good Summit – #2030NOW” in sign language!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It helps to write out the language you’ll use to help your tone and voice be consistent across your messages. It can help to start from a template so that all you have to do is drag and drop the language and design elements in. Text messages have an astounding 98% open rate and only take 90 seconds for a response.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Projects fail when all participants are on different pages: vague or different ideas of what the goals are; different levels of commitment; poor understanding of the deadlines; and poorly set expectations. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Think of it as MS Project lite. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Each card is unique.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . The goals changed. So it’s finding that common ground of this is what our goal is. So I can see your point and are you open to hearing my perspective? The leadership changed.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. It’s very basic.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

But acting hastily to fill the open position may not be in your best interest. Instead, consider this an opportunity to step back and evaluate goals, responsibilities, qualifications and team structure while also being thoughtful and deliberate about what you really need in the role. Compare the Language in Your Job Announcement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, my museum has embarked on a major project to redevelop the plaza outside our doors into a vibrant, cultural hub for downtown, and we are trying to make the development process as open and useful as possible. Child-initiated, shared decisions with adults: Goal isn’t about “kids’ power.” Non-Participation 6.

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

Whether we’re working to shed light on longstanding inequalities, change discriminatory practices, or ensure opportunities for folks from historically marginalized communities, much of our work shares one common overarching goal: striving towards equity. Audiences & Outlets What are the overarching goals for this project?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The moment that they get your communication, whether that’s over email, if it’s a phone call, if it’s a text message, if it’s a voice memo, if it’s a personalized video, whatever it is, this is a chance for you. It’s great if you’re 60%, 70% to goal, like a lot of my clients are. Makes sense.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

The goals of any online presentation are for your key takeaways to (1) be cemented in the minds of your attendees, (2) be shared with other interested parties, or (3) inspire action in support of your cause. Every decision you make should be in service to one or more of these three goals. Make your points memorable. Well, that depends.

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Classy

JULY 16, 2021

Their goal is to provide relevant content, and your captions determine that relevance. There is no single formula for caption length ; it all depends on your nonprofit’s voice and the visual that goes with the caption. Regardless of length, your goal is to make the caption worth reading by your audience.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) opened its doors in 2016, the Museum knew that not everyone would have the opportunity to travel to DC to visit in person. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Avoid using too much jargon or technical language that your audience may not understand. Use active voice whenever possible. The active voice is an essential tool for storytellers, as it contributes to the clarity, engagement, and emotional impact of the narrative. Keep It Simple : Simple stories are often the most effective.

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