The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2024

Effective communication can turn these interactions into meaningful conversations, creating deeper connections and long-lasting engagement. When crafting messages for your donors, it’s crucial to use language that is easily understood and engaging. This could be done through surveys, interviews, or even casual conversations.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These prompts can take many forms, including chatbots, virtual assistants, web interfaces and voice assistants. This work can include writing newsletters, social media posts, research articles, editorials in the voice of the founder, and grant writing. This can lead to increased productivity and cost savings.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This process will allow you to learn about your audience, gain feedback through conversations, provide support to your community when needed, and build one-on-one (or one-to-many) relationships on social media. This includes (but isn’t limited to) threats, swears, offensive language or anything that can be deemed hate speech.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Diversity and inclusion remain one of the top nine challenges facing the charitable sector as reported by a survey of more than 1,000 diverse individuals, but disabled people are often left out of the inclusion conversation altogether. I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g., Listen to and believe disabled voices.

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Allegiance Group

JULY 3, 2024

Yet today, they’re stronger than ever, thanks to predictive analytics and natural language processors (NLPs). Instead, reach out to those who have adopted pets in the past. AI tends to flatten an organization’s distinct voice. Listen to the entire conversation now. For instance, consider a pet shelter. Be specific.

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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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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. We reflected. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. You also need to think about its voice and tone and how it can be relevant and engaging to your target audience. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

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. Continuous feedback loops allow for people to have an equal voice in their organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

It allows them to have a voice in your message. Illustrate your nonprofit in action by telling the story of one dog whose adoption made a real impact in the life of a special needs child or the dog that rescued an elderly man from loneliness. Make nonprofit storytelling conversational and informal. Example #1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Here are five key trends to follow and adopt this fall. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and chatbots: NLP allows AI to understand, interpret, and respond to human language naturally and engagingly—to create a more responsive and interactive experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. Getting New Voices in Your Head The essential first step to this "community first" process is identifying communities of interest and learning about their assets, needs, and interests. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Reference metrics like open and click-through rates, conversion rate, and return on ad spend (ROAS). This could be something like increases in the number of meals a soup kitchen provides or how many successful adoptions an animal shelter has after implementing new initiatives. Next, review outcomes from past marketing campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Christina: I think the creation of the Adopt-a-Musician program has been especially wonderful. This program has proven to be really magical because the children get to use their voice and express their own imaginations and feelings. The musicians who are “adopted” also talk about how meaningful the experience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization. mean for you? hard to use ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot. More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. Obviously, this is a custom programmed Facebook Messenger Bot designed for a conversational experience. What is a Chat Bot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Lean Startup principles have been adopted widely in other sectors, and once you get a glimpse of the principles, it’s clear that Lean can be applied to any organization that needs to operate in a capital-efficient way. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As part of our ongoing research, we are tracking the conversation about AI and Nonprofits,here is a recent roundup of articles, blog posts, and research on the Age of Automation and Nonprofits. The report provides an overview of the technology in easy to understand language. Is the next frontier mining internal emails?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And when we really understand and we match against the assets that we have as an organization and the funder lens, then when we’re outreaching to folks, we’re able to really speak their language, tap into that empathy and leverage our assets in a way that gets them interested and wanting to respond at a much, much, much higher rate. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And when we really understand and we match against the assets that we have as an organization and the funder lens, then when we’re outreaching to folks, we’re able to really speak their language, tap into that empathy and leverage our assets in a way that gets them interested and wanting to respond at a much, much, much higher rate. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are some branding elements you should keep consistent across your operations and include in your organization’s style guide: Overall mission and goals Audience Tone and language Colors Logo Fonts. Whatever it is you choose, lean into the human angle of the story and use descriptive language to connect with your reader.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons.

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