Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

As you lay out the context for your proposal, consider how you frame your nonprofit’s mission, history, community, and more. When writing about impact and people, generally emphasize active language, but remember that passive voice can and should be used strategically, too. Is the tone nihilistic or optimistic?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Identification factors Generally, donors with a history of giving, high engagement with your organization , and a high generosity score (capacity for donating) will be the best major gift candidates. Look at each supporter’s giving history and identify trends. Use your CRM to: Track supporter interactions and giving history.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Organization’s Founding Date/History. There is a long history of questioning how to address inefficient processes in the charitable sector, including grant application and reporting processes that siphon precious time away from nonprofits doing important work. Organization’s Contact Information. Organization’s Donation Website.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. Check out the annual report template!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. Try combining messaging you know resonates with your audiences with references to your donor’s history with your nonprofit. You’re talking to people who have already indicated that they care about what you do and what you have to say.

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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. Instead, you should offer a range of options on your donation form, based on that person’s giving history.

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Map Donor Guide Newsletter 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that. A bad story uses lots of insider language, jargon and “we.” But do you really understand it? What do we mean by storytelling? Example #1.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. The video should not be about your organization’s history or recent fundraising event. Mary fell in love with Nancy Drew books as a child and is excited to see her students improve their reading skills. Give donors a reason to donate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • We can do better!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 8, 2008

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. I saw aspects of American and Japanese society overlaid on a societies trying to preserve their traditions and languages. Micronesia left quite an impression on me.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

The whitepaper will include the following history of ESG, components of ESG programming, an overview of measurement and management, perspectives from CSR leaders, resources to learn more and stay up to date with trends , and more. . Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . Happy reading! . _ .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. A kind acquaintance put us in touch, suggesting the students might be able to carry some things for us to Kenya. I took them up on it. They had left them behind.

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Literacy Kenya Share Causes 95

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Yet there seemed no concern for the dire condition of a dangerous bench, threatening to injure a student at any time. Yet there are nine students on a broken bench; and for my money, that’s a paradigm issue. Executive Director.

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Research Gift NGO Africa 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions. Please share your stories in the comments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. Is that really a reason to study , talk about , and define a professional identity of a "nonprofit sector?" That certainly fits here.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Your donors have probably seen the same type of language from nonprofit organizations and businesses alike regarding COVID-19. At this point, all the language around “these trying times” and “unprecedented needs” and how you’ve had to “pivot” to adjust are white noise.

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Virtual Ideas Guide Fundraising 69

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. What is the history in the question? What is the history in the question? There is history in every question. This is where history comes in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Working for an organization with a long, illustrious history, I am always curious about how other organizations got their start. I found Bookshare's interesting history on its Web site's About Us section: "Benetech, a new kind of nonprofit enterprise, is sponsoring the Bookshare initiative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database Open Language 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Use warm values-based language and feelings into your messaging. Get creative. These exist already!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." The site defines it as: CultureQuests allow students to examine, understand, and appreciate diverse cultures, including the student's own culture.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. A story about your organization’s history, programs, and future goals is unlikely to get picked up by a newspaper, TV station, or digital publication. Step 1: Find Your Story . It’s just too broad.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

I worked with students with visual impairments as well as other teachers, focusing on needs and training to use assistive technology. I am excited about how technology continues to progress and am particularly invested in helping to improve the quality and access to materials that will promote equal opportunities for students' success.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Speak to your donor in their own language by making your ask tangible —a physical and specific goal that one contribution can make possible. How have donations in the past created opportunities for today’s students that will help them succeed? Follow up your brief story with an ask for donations that’s relatable and personal.

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Gift Template Donation Language 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In the case of Minnesota History Museum's user-generated exhibition MN150 , sharpening the criteria (and tightening the language) for user submissions made for both better user-created content and easier decisions by the staff on what to include in the final project. Cloudy criteria make for cloudy evaluations.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” And for a good reason.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How can we develop programming that encourages students to make connections with kids of other ages or from other parts of our County?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

The whole pack is designed to speak to the reasons of why supporters give in their own language. It’s like you are sharing with them things that they do like, and you are talking everything in the language that they like so they feel if they give, it is about what they care about. All my students are my favorite.

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Video Children Donor Survey 113

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So I’m going to say I get [foreign language 00:19:56]. ” And I’m like, ” [foreign language 00:20:19].” ” And I’m like, ” [foreign language 00:20:19].” You may want to know things like their volunteer interest, their history. They’re so like history”?

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Database Donor Video Mail 67

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2008

For a few lucky students, it may be an in-class program or curriculum tie-in. Pittsburgh speaks the native language of each of its constituencies instead of presenting a single image. Pre-visits are about the first look. For some, that may be a billboard or ad. But for most contemporary museum-goers, the pre-visit happens on the web.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think that it's too bad that our stories are not in the common language of arts and entertainment because I think our stories can be very powerful - the stories of an immigrant family, of a single family, of a family who's organizing, or fighting evictions, a young woman who's questioning her sexuality. What is your messaging?

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