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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements.

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Your Organization: Now Available in Any Language

Tech Soup

Ultralingua's dictionary and thesaurus software lets you to look up words both from the Ultralingua application and from within documents and on web pages. Tear Down the Language Barrier. On public computers. In communications. Make translating content on brochures, mailings, and press releases easier. As a teaching aid.

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Why You Should Reevaluate Your Nonprofit’s Mission Statement

Bloomerang

based nonprofits from Candid that serve the homeless population. In less technical terms, the software took into account the words we fed it and gave us a numeric representation of how positive, negative, or neutral the mission statement sounds. Below I’ll share what that research involved and what we learned. .

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Invest in the right software. For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.”

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." NpTech Software. What language is this? " What do you think? Need some comic relief?

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. Phone or In Person?

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But what was a grantmaker who works on ocean conservation doing at a conference of software engineers and open government advocates? Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. Also, there’s mild profanity.