Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She is also the Founder and CEO of Liz Ngonzi Transforms , a boutique international consulting firm that provides consulting, executive coaching, and training services that enable social sector leaders and entrepreneurs to increase their impact and reach their potential. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. The problem is that DEIAB work is hard, and boards that seek to embrace these principles will likely face some resistance along the way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

What is our culture’s most significant impact area? At its core, especially in the beginning, building a great culture is simply an extension and reflection of the leaders’ commitment and performance. Where are we now and where do we want to be? What experience do we hope our culture will provide?

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

But what about some of your highest-impact communications— grant proposals ? Do your grant applications tell stories that catch the attention of funders and illustrate the real impact their support will have on your community? Be mindful of passive voice. Use a people-first approach. Strike the right middle tone.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Review your strategic plan, business goals, and data to identify where automation could make an impact. Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. Find the Bot’s Voice Consider which topics people are more comfortable discussing with a machine and which are better suited to a human.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you’re new to web design and development, creating a homepage that accurately reflects your nonprofit’s mission and values can feel difficult. To make a positive first impression for visitors who land on your website, seek to introduce your nonprofit by highlighting its mission-driven work and tangible impacts in the community.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Black voices, Black spaces. Despite this outsized impact, Toyin has yet to secure adequate funding to support and scale TLNYC. Meaningfully supporting Black innovation requires funders to consider the long-term resources needed to build momentum and sustain impact. Listen and respond to Black leaders.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

Strengths like persuasion, problem solving, and persistence come to mind quickly. Though the rules have been changing, an essential constant has been that donors should not have a dominant voice in the process. But even more impactful are the righteous examples set by our leaders and practitioners.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  A full-service marketing and creative agency, Media Cause helps nonprofits accelerate their impact.

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Double the Donation

MARCH 28, 2021

Brand Voice. You are an irreplaceable solution to a problem that must be solved. . Your mission statement should reflect a call to action and an anticipated result. You now have a voice that will stand out from the rest, and a road map to stay on course. . You can discern which partners are a good fit for you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

What is our culture’s most significant impact area? At its core, especially in the beginning, building a great culture is simply an extension and reflection of the leaders’ commitment and performance. Where are we now and where do we want to be? What experience do we hope our culture will provide?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” But more recently, maybe even in the last 3-4 years, more nonprofits are recognizing how having a strategic, and consistent brand can accelerate their impact — and also how the lack of a brand, or an incomplete one, can hold organizations back from reaching their audience and creating change. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Your board’s diversity (or lack thereof) can impact your nonprofit in many ways. This reiterates the notion that those who are closest to the problem (lack of diversity) are also closest to the solution! What message do you send by adding voices from the communities you serve? Or even the effectiveness of your programs?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

These statistics illuminate the importance of starting your year-end fundraising planning early and creating impactful written appeals to resonate with your supporters. Build your case for support around individual stories and compelling examples of how your nonprofit is making an impact. Define the problem.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

The problem lies in thinking of editing as a process of correction — where a better, more knowledgeable, or more experienced writer fixes the shortcomings in a draft. Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

What is our culture’s most significant impact area? At its core, especially in the beginning, building a great culture is simply an extension and reflection of the leaders’ commitment and performance. Where are we now and where do we want to be? What experience do we hope our culture will provide?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We try to solve problems and often look for the most parsimonious solution. But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. We’ve all been there. A grant comes in. We whip out our logic model.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2016

I bring you: Kitties and 6 Things I Learned About Microsoft Office 365 from Linda Widdop and Sam Chenkin of Tech Impact while attending an Office 365 Forum. According to Tech Impact, on average, organizations spend 67 percent of their IT budgets on maintenance. Yes, that's right. Office 365 and kitties! Sound like you, too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Dave Webb said "I have always had a problem forcing something that is organic by nature into a mechanical straightjacket. On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. s voice louder than ever before. In Edelman???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Do you need share of voice metrics requiring vast amounts of competitive data from across the web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

She asked what tools they thought made the most impact over the “past” year. However, I figured I might as well try the exercise myself to see if it could help me solve a problem that had been stumping me back at the office. It wasn’t rocket science, but a moment of peace helped me see a new way to solve the problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

To make matters worse, one of the targets of Armstrong’s criticism had a mother willing to adamantly voice her displeasure with his proposed action on national TV, and sound like a mother bear protecting her cub in the process. Register now for NMI 1 05 High Impact Leadership, a Tucson course from February 28-March 1. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. That’s like taking a thermometer from your child’s mouth, reading 104 degrees, and dunking the thermometer in ice water to fix the problem. Fixing the KPI does not fix the problem. Not only did we fail to fix the problem, we didn’t even try to diagnose it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Organizations’ communications strategies have more impact individually and collectively. Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable? How will you get their voice?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Analyze all the previous year’s performance data, developing goals that truly reflect what is possible. Give them a voice and let them help you spread the word. Information Sharing and Storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

This is often the hardest part of institutional transformation--being willing and able to listen to the voices that are NOT inside your organization. Over time, we are getting more attractive couches that reflect a unified design aesthetic. No problem. Selling tickets is not an important problem. We started with couches.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. If your institution cares about numbers, count participants and impacted visitors.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. The next exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem. This helped each team look at the ideas in terms of the cost and impact and prioritize what they thought were some of the best ideas. This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. If your institution cares about numbers, count participants and impacted visitors.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

A case for support is your nonprofit’s core message , essentially answering the questions, “Why is your organization worth supporting, and what impact does it have?” Your case will naturally expand on your mission statement by going further into the specifics of your work and impact. Let’s take a closer look. Characters.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Smaller, less marquee institutions may face problems going forward. There are a couple of key demographic trends that impact this. He funds smaller exhibitions, maybe is able to build a relationship with a curator, feel like his voice is heard. And of course it is a reflection of certain haves and have nots in society.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A position on an event committee can keep your sponsor happy with their decision to work with you, as they’ll feel they are truly involved and can make their voice heard as you work together to do good in the community. Offer to speak to the group’s members about your mission and your impact. Tap into schools.

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