Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

After saying yes to an unrealistic timeline, the team missed deadlines, and relationships suffered. The next time a client proposed an impossible deadline, she said, To meet your goals, wed need more time to maintain quality. Before entering these conversations, get clear on your reasons and rehearse how youll articulate them.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Be able to articulate what you help orgs do and accomplish, not necessarily the technical products/skills? In a relationship building, they will likely understand that certain tasks will cost a certain amount. You may be a specialist, but come off as a specialist — focus on benefits of a few things in your elevator speech.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement. No amount of information matters for equitable change if it is disconnected from relationships and social interaction. Data is a decision.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

When the societal context in which a product will operate is not articulated well enough to result in robust problem understanding, the resulting ML solutions can be fragile and even propagate unfair biases. The relationships between these entities are dynamic and complex.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. It’s a great opportunity to engage a new ‘outsider’ that could lead to countless relationships. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It involves thorough research to align your organization’s mission with the right funding opportunities, ensuring that your proposals resonate with potential funders’ goals and criteria. The tune of your proposal should sing out clearly, highlighting how your mission aligns with the funder’s goals. And what’s more?

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Corporate sponsorship is a mutually beneficial relationship wherein a company offers direct financial support, in-kind donations , or skilled volunteer services to support a nonprofit in meeting its fundraising event goals. Be sure to articulate your goals of your fundraising event’s sponsorship.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

The goal of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to present a project in the context of the organization and its goals so that great vendors can submit the best possible proposals. Once you have written this proposal it is time to find great vendors to send you bids. Quality of proposal (1 low < 5 high). Check this out.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

When the vendor is good, and the relationship between client and vendor is stable and collaborative, the project will be successful. Here are ten tips on preparation, evaluating proposals , and red flags to watch out for in working with digital vendors: Seek productive conversations as a starting point. Going over budget.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 30, 2024

Step two through step infinite is delivering on the promises you made in your proposal. Building relationships with state officials and attending local workshops can provide invaluable insider knowledge. Securing a foundation grant often starts with building a relationship. Securing a grant is only step one.

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Achieve

MAY 15, 2024

Similar to how you would request funds from a corporate sponsor , your parks and recreation organization needs to submit a proposal and wait for approval from the grantmaking organization. Write a grant proposal. Therefore, it’s better to focus on a few grants and create extremely thorough applications and proposals for them.

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M+R

MAY 12, 2021

Impact has a symbiotic relationship with need. Need is the expression of a problem, but impact isn’t simply our proposed solution. Communicating impact successfully doesn’t merely propose a solution; it defines the audience’s role in that solution. If there is no need, it’s impossible for an individual to make an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If we stay true to these five simple measurement steps as articulated by colleague KD Paine, then we’re on a good, steady course of continuous improvement. Measurement of your processes and results—where you spend your time and money and what you get out of it—helps you make better decisions.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Do they have a relationship with hosting companies? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? That’s okay, as long as you like that look and feel. Technology.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Identifying companies that have something in common with your work will make it much easier to build a reciprocal relationship and form a corporate sponsorship. It’s a relationship that’s focused around the needs of both parties. Focus on fostering relationships and check in regularly to see if any new opportunities have opened up.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lovely, articulate, and bold vision. IISC defines systems mapping as using a variety of tools to help people develop a better understanding of the interactions, relationships, and outcomes of different kinds of systems. But articulating the true need isn't enough. But articulating the true need isn't enough.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This helps no one and createsa relationship fraught with pain and sleepless nights – not to mention the economic costs. First and foremost, any engagement is about the relationship between agency and client and the success (or failure) of this relationship sometimes hinges simply on the personalities involved and how they mesh.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Try to articulate your organization’s long-term goals and aspirations in high definition. Follow up with potential funding sources after submitting applications or proposals. This will help you stay focused on your goals and avoid getting sidetracked by other priorities.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2013

Don’t give the funder a reason to eliminate you from the consideration process before they even read the proposal. Proposals have to be well written. You need to clearly articulate your project in a sincere and compelling manner. Most funders will be open to ongoing relationships with organizations they have funded.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

I left private legal practice for nonprofit fundraising to get away from the less relational aspects of the service provider-client relationship. I loved building trust, meeting clients where they were most comfortable, and taking a relationship-above-all approach to my work. Demonstrate (and articulate!)

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 12, 2022

However, you have to know where to look and what to look for before you can start choosing opportunities to pursue and drafting grant proposals. With restricted grants , you’re required to use that grant’s funding for specific programs articulated in your application. Grant Funding Sources. Donor-Advised Funds.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Take a look at your existing supporter base, seeking out ways you can cultivate stronger relationships with the people and organizations that have invested in your cause. Want to grow your relationships with donors through marketing? Practices that foster these relationships include: Reaching out on a more consistent basis.

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Guibas Contact : kaichun@cs.stanford.edu Links: Paper Keywords : embodied ai, 3d scene graph, interactive perception VAT-Mart: Learning Visual Action Trajectory Proposals for Manipulating 3D ARTiculated Objects Authors : Ruihai Wu*, Yan Zhao*, Kaichun Mo*, Zizheng Guo, Yian Wang, Tianhao Wu, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Leonidas J.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

Here’s where we stand: nonprofit feasibility studies are valuable tools that can help you strengthen donor relationships, build your internal operations and prepare for a fundraising campaign with the most direct information available to your organization. To learn if your donors will be interested in supporting your proposed campaign.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve. Illustrate how your proposed programs and services will effectively address those specific needs and provide solutions or support to your target beneficiaries.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

They were followed in 2017 by VQ-VAE, proposed in “ Neural Discrete Representation Learning ”, a vector-quantized variational autoencoder. Second, there is a one-to-many relationship between text and audio. These two architectures helped lay the foundation for pixel-level generation using deep neural networks.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. To help jumpstart these relationships, we did one of my favorite activities. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Yes, strategies that are going to help build some long time relationships with those big time givers. Well, everyone, welcome to this presentation on building lasting relationships with your most significant givers. You must commit to relationship building. Relationship-building. Thanks for joining us. Oh, there it goes.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

I went to an event where one of the big foundries was announcing an expansion, and they had guests from the automakers who articulated exactly that: “We have to be a strategic partner with the chip manufacturers.” When we look at the plants being proposed in the United States, there’s the Samsung factory in Texas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. In the last “C,” Congressional budget, the Biden administration proposed in its FY2023 budget a 9.5% Government or any employer, company, client or investor.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. You know, your fundraisers are going to be very focused on important relationships with important donors. That what makes for a great partner is not necessarily understood in a proposal. So here’s an interesting one.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

The problem was that deals depended on relationships, but relationships were fallible, human, subject to emotional attachment. In the first months of the pandemic, his company received urgent, irrational shipping requests, which he refused so as to protect his relationships with major air and sea freight operators. Your choice.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2025

Nonprofits are facing ever-increasing challenges in obtaining financial capital, with reports of declines in individual donors , fundraising challenges , and proposed government spending cuts. For nonprofits, this includes relationships with partner organizations, funders, volunteers, community members, and beneficiaries.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 28, 2025

These fundraisers can deploy staff and board members to cultivate donors, build relationships, and even network to find new prospects. Save time on grant writing and donor pitches One of the best ways to make fundraising more efficient is to create a grant template, also known as a boilerplate proposal.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. Markey sat down for an interview with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss these issues, his proposed solutions, and. But it has to be something that’s articulated at the highest levels of the federal government.

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