The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Just this month they held a day of legislative action bringing together members of the community to hear from legislators on bills currently in session and for the opportunity to elevate their voices on issues concerning the community. Higher Heights works to elevate the voices of Black women in politics while advancing progressive politics.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We loved the opportunity to highlight many more voices on the main stage. Submit your proposal by December 19. Connect with the Local Community of Nonprofits Don’t travel to Austin without connecting with the local community! Last year, it’s all we read in our surveys: You loved the Ignite plenary session.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

For example, I’m on the board of a local theater group, and the executive director’s most recent emailed newsletter was titled “ Theater Nurtures Democracy.” Check out what to listen for in donor onboarding from the Agitator-Donor Voice blog. He connected the values of the theater with those of people living in today’s world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

I’m the grandfather of an expensive preemie, so I was incensed by his proposal that AOL employees should be penalized to cover such unanticipated increases in healthcare costs. But instead, he proposed a conversation that had… at its core… ten tiny toes, ten itsy-bitsy fingers, and a name. What a creep! He’s a tyrant!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. Are you working with new demographics?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a practice funders like to see, because an Advisory Board gives members of the affected community a voice. For example, an organization that sets up clinics in African and Latin American countries has a large Advisory Board made up of executives from local corporations, including several healthcare and insurance companies.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It is voiced or expressed outwardly in society in some way. Example: “Datamaking” as engagement I recently worked with an arts and culture intermediary nonprofit that focused on capacity development, network building, and connecting local nonprofits to state agencies and grants. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. The first step—which we’ll cover in this article—is to identify your digital volunteers who might be interested in volunteering offline and quickly drive them into a local activity that will engage and excite them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2016

The City proposed moving the garden to a nearby plot of City-owned land, but gardeners felt that this disruption would literally uproot an essential community place. How have you addressed the challenges and opportunities to raise your institutional voice on local issues? Our museum has a growing advocacy component to our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). If Shakespeare on Twitter, how would he tweet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic. And where is the local community in all of this?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. . Voice remains the killer app. A limiting factor, to scale up, will remain the local technical capacity to support and “own” these systems over time. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. Examples: Neighborhoods Against Irresponsible Logging (NAIL): When planners distributed a confusing and hard-to-understand map, many people in Rebecca’s local community didn’t “get&# what kind of logging plan was really in store.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

logging trucks navigating more than 30 blind curves where children walk to school past active landslide areas on the slopes alongside the creek that SJWC proposed to log (along the San Andreas Fault) over the proposed helicopter landing pads near homes and the daycare center along the currently pristine and beautiful creek to its headwaters.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. These stations rely on a hyper-local, membership-based audience, and CDP understands that. Review your candidates. Weigh your options, and make your pick.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. She re-mapped the data in Google Earth and shared the new map with community members, local politicians, and presented it at the community meeeting to a much different response. Only 5 percent of all Twitter users have more than 250 followers.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local. State/Local.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

Let’s use an example of a local animal shelter who wants to drum up support for a proposed law to ban puppy mills. One encourages the reader to donate to support dogs like Ruby, the second allows the reader to voice their support for the bill. Support HB 105, the proposed law to end puppy mills for good.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leaders also began voicing concerns about the privacy and security of company information that employees may type into generative AI tools. Meanwhile, numerous lawmakers began preparations to regulate employers’ use of AI: the U.S.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

They might go from seeing a poster about your organization at their favorite local coffee shop to scrolling through your organization’s website. Videos, on the other hand, make it possible to add music and give a voice to your beneficiaries so they can share their own stories. Make your proposal memorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). Inspiration.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But it’s also important that your organization communicates with a clear credible and compelling voice, that you communicate with consistently at all points of contact. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. One of the best communicating organizations I ever saw was.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So it’s asking them, you know, I recommend doing some kind of either a poll, a survey, or even one-on-one share where you say, you know, “How do you feel about the fact that we just lost this proposal or it didn’t hit this benchmark?” Giving your members of the board a voice right off the bat.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. So the first one is your voice, how to use your voice to convey your message. Voice was being one of those. So this is our agenda.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

This meant 12 different presentations showcasing a range of voices, topics, and ideas. Ignite proposals will open in the fall. It is important to us that the NTC figuratively and the plenaries literally serve as a stage to highlight the diversity of this community. There''s always more we can do, though.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The individual sites, which are now live, provide an important opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard on open government. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. At Forum One, we are passionate about the open government initiative currently underway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Yearly makes it easy to design annual reports, event recaps, donor proposals, and board presentations. Otter uses Ambient Voice Intelligence to transcribe meetings, Zoom calls, and conversations into searchable notes that can be easily shared. For multilingual surveys, see Alchemer. Year.ly :: yearly.report. Productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rote is a web-based grant writing tool that saves your past language in one place – organized, filterable, and at your fingertips when you need it to write a first draft of a new proposal. Otter uses Ambient Voice Intelligence to transcribe meetings, Zoom calls, and conversations into searchable notes that can be easily shared.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. 18 In this world of management by algorithm, many workers feel that they have lost dignity and voice. 9</sup).

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. I just read the news for today at my local newspaper’s online addition. Early days – proposal stage… but will happen! I just don’t want to read that anymore.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. How did you solicit visitor nominations?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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