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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

sgEngage

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Look for ways to simplify your language and your structure to make your question easier to read and answer. Would this question be better asked in a follow-up interview or post-award communication?

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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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Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity, and Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement.

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4 Ways Thinking Like A Marketer Will Help Volunteer Retention

TechImpact

Find out if all your volunteers are up to date on your nonprofit’s processes, language, best practices, and policies. Try taking these three measures to better understand your volunteers: Communicate openly: Sit down with your volunteers and get to know them better. Anything that the majority of volunteers like?

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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits: A Detailed Guide

Neon CRM

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. Avoid Complex Language and Narratives While all the nitty-gritty details behind a story might be interesting, too much jargon can be distracting.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya. Andrew’s challenge wasn’t an empty one: his team could measure the effectiveness of interventions we might try and see how well they work. Well worth a try!

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, Gretchen Buhlig, CEO of the ASU Foundation, made the following comment in a recent interview with me related to technology deployment at the foundation, “We have 1.2 Natural-language processing. Natural-language processing (NLP) refers to the capability of AI to understand the text and the spoken word.