sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission. The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With a well-crafted mission statement, your nonprofit can present a clear, concise picture of what you do and why. If your nonprofit has made any large-scale changes, your team should sit down and assess whether your mission statement still accurately reflects your work. Next, ask about what language resonates with them.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Salesforce Einstein also helps provide users with an even clearer picture of what’s happening in their organizations so they can make better informed decisions. Scoring of how good a new lead or prospect is, so your team knows who to prioritize in their interactions, and so you can evaluate the effectiveness of your marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. Some teams also establish “drop in or open door times,” the real world equivalent of popping your head into a colleague’s office to ask a quick question. Dedicated Team Building Games.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

For Washington’s National Park Fund , the optimized Online Giving form from Blackbaud compliments and reinforces the language, look, and feel of their website, improving a donor’s experience as they scroll. For development teams, this means creating varied and engaging content to keep donors invested in the cause.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Look to Past Campaigns for a Fuller Picture It’s also helpful to analyze past year-end campaigns for insights. Our team recommends employing appends such as age demographics, number of children in the household, interests and hobbies, and communication channel preferences for maximization. Practice radical stewardship!

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The most successful projects involve establishing this visual direction early on, making sure that our team, and our client’s team, are aligned from the very beginning. First, it establishes an agreed upon visual language with the client which helps to minimize surprises for both parties later on in the process. Moodboards.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When figuring out what story to tell, you need to assess your objectives and look at the big picture: Why do you want to share your story? Namely, think about how your stories will impact your team and how they’ll impact people outside of your organization. . In this post, I’ll focus on the strategy behind telling a compelling story.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

They defined data visualization as the representation of information in the form of a chart, diagram, or picture. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” Emily and Joe recommend to begin with planning before you ever look at your data.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Each participant uses a private Chatter group in a secure Salesforce community to capture highlights of them being good at something using video, audio, photos, and text (shout out here to the Appinium team and their awesome products for native media handling and sharing). Obviously, that would be resource heavy and subjective.

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Music Measure Impact Data 106

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. You may decide to ask one team member to post to social media every day to engage your online audience. For instance, you may find that one team member, Theo, is especially good at face-to-face communication on the retreat.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

Each of those trends of course are important; however, it is about the bigger picture. Whether that connection is through every day in-person encounters, remote meetings and chats, or intentionally planned team and / or give back activities, the most important part is the human interaction, relationship building, and togetherness.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search. AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. Begin planning for your chatbot.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search. AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. Begin planning for your chatbot.

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Search Grant Organization Voice 52

Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

These types of tools are mostly built on top of GPT3 (General Pre-Trained Transformer) which is a machine learning platform that enables developers to train and deploy models that perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. Collaboration: AI software can help you collaborate with others on projects, making writing a team effort.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, creating a strong social media presence isn’t as simple as writing a post and hitting “send” or taking a few pictures and uploading them online. Use your organization’s brand colors, fonts, and logos in all of the pictures and videos you post on social media. Make sure it’s authentic and true to your organization’s culture.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

To paint a comprehensive picture of your audience, there are several different sources you’ll need to pull from, including: Previous data. Supplement this post with engaging language like “Cook a mouth-watering five-star meal with celebrity chef, Suzanne Jones.”

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Game Marketing Change Tips 52

CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

Since personal pages can come pre-populated with text, Invest in Kids provided templated language so that fundraisers didn’t have to author their appeal from scratch. If they wanted to, participants could edit the default text or add their own pictures and stories. Best Practice #2: Easy Registration.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Team Diabetes knew its P2P endurance event was flatlining. The leadership team wanted to identify ways to improve the event, expand registrations, raise more money, and turn loyal supporters into sustaining and major donors. Here’s how Team Diabetes created improvements based on the lessons learned from the donor journey map.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-developed planned giving program often will utilize a gift acceptance policy (with language for donors to include in their estate planning), donor journeys, communication plans, and an administrative breakdown for bequest processing to help maintain clear policies and streamlined communication between planned donors and the organization.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

While it requires a significant and ongoing technology investment, first-party data allows you to connect actions with real-life supporters and develop a cohesive picture of their interactions with your organization. If you’re looking for a partner to help you move into the next step of data privacy, contact the Media Cause team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

We kicked around ideas for sensing the air pollution: could you take a picture of a white piece of paper indoors and outdoors? 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. Will such an app work?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now that you’ve got the big picture facts plus the details, it’s time to add in the emotional experience. But as time went on, I continue to learn more about how to be a good leader and how to uplift and encourage a great team. Vivid and Gripping Language is Key. 3 – Layer in the emotional experience.

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Profit Story Storytelling Language 79

NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Inclusion – Change management gives your organization a framework with the language and instructions needed to ensure all stakeholders have a chance to voice their viewpoints. At the beginning of the project, outline why your nonprofit is making the change and communicate that with your project team members. A “Why” Statement.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. Choosing your team. for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Choosing your team. Just a heads-up: this is a long read.

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 19, 2017

DO use pictures of people. Captivate your readers with engaging pictures throughout your emails. If you're building a community playground or other structure, include pictures of the progress or design drawings, so donors can feel included in the process. DO use empowering language.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. Large language models (LLMs), adept at communicating with human speech, represent a significant advance in computing. It was launched in November 2022.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Daily stand-ups give a voice to all team members and empower people to speak up. This connection allows for a greater understanding of the work, builds momentum toward the mission, builds team relationships, and enhances all communication in order to be more successful. Lean wants to increase connections between people.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2022

Then, ask your team to do the same with their networks as well. Rather than sending out communications en masse with general language, try to put your donors’ names on every piece of communication. The first step of the fundraising cycle involves finding the donors and potential donors you want to cultivate.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Check out the Team Resilience 2020 fundraiser from Erika’s Lighthouse for an example of a great way to meet your fundraisers at their comfort level. Have your participants sign up as teams and go head-to-head for an entertaining night and some friendly competition. Online fundraising ideas for sports teams. Bingo night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

I enjoyed getting a chance to tour around the the southern part of the island with Mike Terlaje (U of Guam CEDDERS) and Chuck Hitchcock of CAST(pictured above) on my final afternoon there (and even squeezed in half an hour of snorkeling), and seeing Spanish ruins, waterfalls, and bay after spectacular bay. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

In America, there is mistrust between some ethnic groups, language barriers, and general fear of outsiders among certain communities due to safety issues such as deportation. Being able to communicate with the target community is key and the language barrier is the main reason that individuals hesitate to seek assistance. Schwartz, R.,

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Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

No one wants to sign up for a service and suddenly find out there are hidden fees that weren’t publicly listed (or that were buried under “free” or “0%” language) on a company’s website. Support fee A support fee is a charge to your organization to talk a support team. Transparency in pricing is a big deal! Fees Terminology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

By Patrick Ball On 14 February 2012, the New York Times reported that a Swiss team had found a weakness in a key algorithm used to make secure connections online. What's the big picture? On Tuesday, a paper by researchers from a Swiss team (Lenstra et al.) On 15 February 2012, another team (Heninger et al.)

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2022

Audience: Think through who you picture visiting your site (you might even have some site data to inform your thinking). Tone and language for web content: Do you want your NGO to come across as fun-loving and laid back?

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