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Using Music and Data to Measure Impact and Wellbeing

Saleforce Nonprofit

Whilst we can present as a music organisation that makes beeping noises with kids, we are actually interested in positively impacting their sense of wellbeing. The post Using Music and Data to Measure Impact and Wellbeing appeared first on Salesforce.org. Here’s how we’re doing it. Understand What You’re Doing and Why.

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What Should You Say to Get People to Donate

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Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. Gregory Ciotti wrote about the 5 most persuasive words in the English language and how “certain power words hold more sway over our decision making process than others.” Their name.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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Give foreign language students and cultural club members the opportunity to share their knowledge and cultures with their peers and the wider school community with an “Around the World” virtual festival. Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year. John Center for Homeless Men.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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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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The language we use

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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Should You Accept ANY Type of Nonprofit Donation? (And How Should You Gracefully Decline a Gift?)

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But from time to time, a donor will offer you something else: stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency, an acre of undeveloped land, a house, a boat, a car, a painting, a sculpture, a rare book, a musical instrument, or something else that makes you scratch your head. Avoid legalese and negative language.

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