Bloomerang

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Stories help embed a message into context and, often, entertainment. The message is the medication , and the story is the peanut butter. Sure, some of us have an inherent knack for weaving a good story, but the truth is storytelling can be learned, practiced, and mastered. . The strategy behind the stories you tell.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2021

Communications plans help offer structure and strategy that can save you time and energy in the long run, while getting your desired objectives accomplished. Having a coherent communications plan where you package your message will help ensure each piece of content you share is part of a greater story you are telling. Spread the word?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These convenings are often driven by the needs and goals of participants. RAWA Fund, for instance, has used grantee self-assessment based on narrative, story-telling methodologies, as a basis for evaluation. Their goals and indicators of success may be different from yours. What are the changes that are meaningful to them?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. How do they describe your work or your beneficiaries? Who Do You Serve?

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Team Fundraising Peer-to-peer fundraisers can also be structured to include teams. Setting Up Your Personal Fundraising Page A personal fundraising page, like the one seen above, is where individuals or individuals within a team can share their story, set a goal and invite their network to give. Why do you care?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. For example, ensure all images include alt text, provide a transcript or closed captions for videos, choose text colors that contrast with the background, and use hierarchical page structure. ? Let’s dive in!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We had goals to increase total giving to the NMSU system, increase alumni giving rates, see participation of 1,000 donors, add endowments for colleges, departments and units across the system and establish communication partnerships with local businesses. For NMSU, the infrastructure for tracking matching gift expectations was crucial.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Their goals are to end preventable maternal health risks and deaths, end preventable preterm birth and infant death, and close the health equity gap. Forum One worked with SLAC to create a Drupal site that achieved all of these goals and more. congressional districts. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Each nonprofit has its own unique needs and goals, and every type of assignment—from developing branding to creating campaigns to redoing entire websites from scratch—has its own process and requirements. We encourage our clients to look at the elements individually, but also as complete stories. Moodboards. Style tiles. Style guides.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Language barriers For those who are not fluent in English, language barriers can create additional challenges and make it difficult to access certain opportunities and succeed in certain fields.

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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. What tropes or story elements might reinforce harmful stereotypes or otherwise be problematic?

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’ll get into more detail about the types of emails you can send, but all of them should include some story-driven content. A clear statement of your fundraising goal and impact A clear call to action, whether it’s a donate button or another action you would like readers to take. Email Types. Simply thank your donors. It’s up to you!

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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. What are your donors saying to you?

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Classy

APRIL 19, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. Use language that creates a sense of exclusivity. Clarify the campaign type, start and end dates, specific goals, and any other pertinent information your donors might want before getting involved. .

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned Giving Is Accessible to All Planned giving flips the script on the traditional donation structure because it does not disrupt a supporter’s current cash flow. Realistic Revenue Goals: A well-run planned giving program can facilitate long-term growth. Here are additional benefits of implementing a planned giving program.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Select the language of your recording. Go back to your goals. It’s like trying to work out the story at the heart of the findings. Uncovering a narrative structure gives sign posts to some of the broader conclusions. Even better, it’s relatively simple to get your audio turned into text. Go to the navigation menu.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. This example illustrates the power that funders hold in this dynamic between organizations trying to meet undefined goals and parameters of “innovation” and funders not matching their risk talk with their risk walk. Please help now.”

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

By using cause-specific language that clearly conveys the urgency of needs on the ground, you can compel donors to take immediate action through their communications across channels. Social Media Create social posts leading up to the one-month anniversary highlighting success stories and progress made possible by emergency donors.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. An organization could segment their donor data to follow that structure, narrowing the criteria as a donor gives more.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

Your nonprofit’s team likely spends quite a bit of time focusing on raising the funds you need to achieve your goals. There are many considerations to go over, including what types of campaigns to employ, what fundraising strategies to exercise during these campaigns, and what your revenue goals are. . Ask them how they’re doing.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. Why would you want to set aside a long chunk of time to fundraise in a way that’s outside of your typical structures? Do you think our goal and timeline are reasonable? So let’s start with the basics: what is a capital campaign?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Set SMART goals. The first step to creating your social media strategy is to establish your social media goals. How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Strategy.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Make them stand out on the page and use language that inspires action, such as “Give Today” or “Support Our Mission.” Use concise language and engaging visuals to effectively convey your message and capture the interest of your audience.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

Since personal pages can come pre-populated with text, Invest in Kids provided templated language so that fundraisers didn’t have to author their appeal from scratch. If they wanted to, participants could edit the default text or add their own pictures and stories. You can also structure prizes as a raffle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. For example, this post features an opinion piece by ABC News on the structural reasons for the housing crisis in the United States written by their CEO: It’s worth noting that posting curated content not written by a staff member is also a best practice on LinkedIn.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We took a year off of C3 in 2013 and reconsidered our goals for the group. Suddenly, C3 felt more like an engagement program that advances our institutional goals. Low on friction.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

But it isn’t enough to have a rough idea of messaging, an incomplete timeline, some scheduled tweets, and an arbitrary fundraising goal. The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. Ready, set, goals!

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story. Set clear goals and expectations for what you want to achieve. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

There’s a great story about Nora Ephron that illustrates how powerful addressing your audience is: Before she became an award-winning screenwriter, Nora Ephron was a senior at Beverly Hills High School. A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. This may seem like a bold goal. We couldn’t have a language without them.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

by a framework that emphasizes collaboration and establishes clear goals for the team. These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. It clarifies decision making at every level by ensuring that the questions we need to answer when working with content, technology, and design are grounded in one simple goal.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It’s the goal of every nonprofit that creates a video – creating a video that has impact. Pacific time , so there's still time to take these tips and apply them to your digital story! Pacific time , so there's still time to take these tips and apply them to your digital story!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

When a high-profile giving day smashes participation and dollar goals, annual giving teams across the country double down on strategies to cement their own success. Adjust your goals as needed. The same can be said for goal setting. This will help you create a giving day goal that is possible for your team.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 31, 2016

You’re putting up barriers, in the very language you use, that says “this isn’t for you.” Regardless of what structure we’re talking about, people are at the center of every organization, no matter why it exists. The more you know about your people and your community, the more you can align your goals.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go. 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. The leadership changed.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. When early feedback indicated users were confused about the submission process, we fine-tuned our language and quickly produced a promo video that distills the complete process in a hilarious 2-minute story. gallery closes.

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