sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s about making sure that your questions align with your organizational values and your goals for the grantmaking program. Look for ways to simplify your language and your structure to make your question easier to read and answer. Use standard writing best practices, such as short sentences and active voice.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2024

Without their kindness and support, many nonprofits would struggle to achieve their goals. When crafting messages for your donors, it’s crucial to use language that is easily understood and engaging. Aim to write at a sixth-grade reading level, using simple language and avoiding complex jargon or technical terms.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

You can only effectively curate your stories to support your grant goal if you have a laser-focused plan for satisfying its core requirements. Be mindful of passive voice. Active voice (“We will serve X constituents…”) creates dynamism and clear cause and effect, creating a feeling of movement and impact. Keep it focused.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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Media Cause

JULY 14, 2023

Digital marketing is a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes to reach their target audience and achieve their goals. Use language and imagery that are relevant, culturally sensitive, and can resonate with diverse communities. Actively seek input from the audiences to ensure voices are heard.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While our society has a long way to achieve real representation and inclusiveness, your virtual event can move in the right direction and take active steps toward presenting a more diverse and inclusive experience. You can reach a more diverse audience if you are including different voices in the planning process.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. How do they describe your work or your beneficiaries?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And, more specifically and most importantly, how to create WE-builders to help close any gap between people who are separated by ethnicity, language, race, religion, or any factor that divides. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And, more specifically and most importantly, how to create WE-builders to help close any gap between people who are separated by ethnicity, language, race, religion, or any factor that divides. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

And, more specifically and most importantly, how to create WE-builders to help close any gap between people who are separated by ethnicity, language, race, religion, or any factor that divides. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And, more specifically and most importantly, how to create WE-builders to help close any gap between people who are separated by ethnicity, language, race, religion, or any factor that divides. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

If you saw an ad, and later read an email, you’d know it was the same, just from the language. The Academy is a powerful voice for biodiversity research and exploration, environmental education, and sustainability across the globe. We exceeded our revenue goal by 16%. By uniting the creative, we built a cohesive campaign.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While our society has a long way to achieve real representation and inclusiveness, your virtual event can move in the right direction and take active steps toward presenting a more diverse and inclusive experience. You can reach a more diverse audience if you are including different voices in the planning process.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. While recruitment is important for your organization’s long-term success, you should always prioritize allocating resources for mission-critical activities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Here are some benefits you can expect to see from proactive change management: Decreased resistance – By communicating regularly with all stakeholders and providing them with tools and resources to work through change, everyone involved and impacted is more likely to participate actively in project planning. An Executive Sponsor.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

Harness the power of setting campaign goals. . Setting goals for a fundraising campaign is an important step to ensure you are staying on track and seeing year-over-year growth. Your goal can also be a motivating tool to encourage more donations quickly. . Comment on your activity wall to personally steward donors. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In 2015, 193 world leaders came together at the United Nations to launch the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , a universal call to action adopted by all nations to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people can enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. There is no one size fits all approach.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Practicing this people-first approach relies on a number of standard activities. Gemba walks help to see people in action, see their movements, their projects, their goals, their roadblocks and hear their conversations. Daily stand-ups give a voice to all team members and empower people to speak up. Quality over Quantity.

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Classy

JULY 26, 2021

You can do this through the use of sensory language, compelling visuals, and creative impact blocks. . To take your National Nonprofit Day campaign to the next level, make sure to: Maintain a style and voice that is consistent with your brand. State the core issue you want to address in your campaign .

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Listen, starting a nonprofit is NOT a “build it and they will come” activity. Even though it may go against your instincts to ask for money, it’s a must-do activity if you want your nonprofit to grow and thrive. Studies show that fundraisers with specific goal amounts are more successful than open-ended fundraisers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Listen actively, making sure that your people feel heard and understood and have a voice in terms of offering positive suggestions in the office or on the shop floor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? If the first project results in a book composed entirely of users’ voices and the second results in a volume that looks more like a “typical” institutional publication, which project is more participatory?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My activism in the anti-rape movement began with institutionalized sexual harassment I experienced at my high school. Organizations can tap into the power of personal story by uplifting the voices in their network. Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal? . Identify Your Own Story .

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Segment Users Based on Activity/Interest. There are countless ways you can segment your audience , including last activity date, last donation date, last email clicked date, issues of interest, organization affiliation, and more. . Define Your Goal + Have a Clear Call to Action. Show + Tell.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Set SMART goals. The first step to creating your social media strategy is to establish your social media goals. What platforms are they active on?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. What Is a Donor Engagement Strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. The potential for an army of bot trolls to disrupt an activism campaign. To design an effective bot, you first need to figure its purpose and how it connects to your goals. Poverty Reduction.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Be Realistic When it Comes to Goal-Setting Setting clear and realistic fundraising goals can also give nonprofits a strong predictor of upcoming campaigns. With the right tools and strategies in place, your development team can start working backward from an end goal of December 31st in July. We’re here to help!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. In June, with the help of Stevie Wonder , we got a treaty that did just that: the Treaty of Marrakesh.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

Align their behavior with organizational goals. Actively contribution to innovation. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game. Give their best effort. Help improve the quality of decisions.

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