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How to Approach a Nonprofit Job Interview with a For-Profit Attitude (and Résumé)

EveryAction

As someone who has jumped from the corporate world to the nonprofit sector and back again, I’ve learned a lot about the nuances of both, especially in terms of the all-important first interview. No matter the reason, if you want to work at a nonprofit, it’s important to be able to sell yourself in an interview.

Attitude 101
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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America – and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map. And with the latest entry being 2023 – when Google released its generative AI natural language processing tool. Building an outrageously talented team.

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10 Best Blogging Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Hub

Then, strategize ways to match your language, tone, and style to your audience’s interests. Options to read your content in different languages depending on your audience’s needs. For example, you could make your content available in both Spanish and English if many members of your community speak both languages.

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How to Tell Non-Profit Stories With Emotions and Details

The Storytelling Non-profit

Most often we take an interview-style approach to collecting stories. Then, I’ll go back through the audio and map out the story. Going through an application and interview process. Vivid and Gripping Language is Key. My top level guideline for this is aim for language that is vivid and gripping.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

Map out the story you need to tell. In their research project “Exploring the Love Language of Fundraising,” Jen and Adrian are uncovering how often the nonprofit sector focuses on money within their messaging – “Your gift can” or “Thank you for your donation” – which establishes a transactional relationship with them.

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Beyond The Job Description -- Interview With The Book's Author

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Managers can use a common language to name the true challenges of work and create a culture of expectations, accountability, and support for team members to examine their “job-within-the-job” and to navigate its challenges.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. According to Ed Bice, the short term goal is to just make sure that information is flowing between language communities and the longer term goal is to network these communities. What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages.