Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether it’s an emailed donation appeal, social media post, or old-school flyer on a bulletin board, the best nonprofit communications help your audience relate to and position themselves within your mission’s story. Be mindful of passive voice. But what about some of your highest-impact communications— grant proposals ?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2024

When crafting messages for your donors, it’s crucial to use language that is easily understood and engaging. By prioritizing readability, you create a more enjoyable and impactful experience for your audience. Aim to write at a sixth-grade reading level, using simple language and avoiding complex jargon or technical terms.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should resonate with both the AAPI community and also general audiences. 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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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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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. Build a tool for your audience that helps with a task. Build out code (see the bottom).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Our role is to understand our clients and their audiences and build the right solution with them—not for them. These efforts have included refining and documenting our approach to inclusive language, inclusive research practices, co-creation principles in design, and more. DEIA is also about what we do.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Organizations can tap into the power of personal story by uplifting the voices in their network. Understand Your Audience. Which audience is key in taking the actions needed to achieve your advocacy goal? . Throughout your messaging, avoid passive language. Once this is determined, it’s time to get researching.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. You may decide to ask one team member to post to social media every day to engage your online audience. This statement should use precise language but non-finite verbs.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Whether revenue comes from a previous campaign, a particular audience, or a giving package, leverage clean data so you can know where you’re going and eliminate potential problems. By honing in on outcome language – what you alone can do because of the unique impact you make in this world – donors will naturally gravitate toward giving.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

This is where suggested donations can play an important role in your fundraising strategy. They also see how you present the array as a point of communication from you, much like how body language communicates in real life.”. Some donors upgrade their giving without being asked, but most donors need some prompting.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

It was considered too resource intensive to play a consistent role in most promotional strategies. I realized that associations already had the content and the audience. In that scenario, all of the best content only hits approximately 15 percent of the audience. This topic appeals to both insider and outsider audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

To help address this challenge, I am thrilled to partner with public speaking coach Eileen Smith of Spokesmith , to give you these six incredible tips that can elevate you to rock star status in your circles, and keep your audience fully focused and enthusiastically spreading your key points through their networks. Walk in their shoes!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The seventeen SDGs use a common language to provide a blueprint for action in local cities and towns across the globe. In addition, I offered to serve as the Regional Voice Lead for the initiative in New England (US). Tell your audience how your local actions roll up to the larger global goals.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. These folks are taking content to the biggest audiences in the field, often without the resources or support of other content creators. But, many were not done smartly.)

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Understand your audience. Further, what are some unique traits associated with that audience? Additionally, identify any communication preferences the audience has, including preferred communication channels, formats, and frequencies. Let’s get started! First, you’ll need to define who you want your story to appeal to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

To help address this challenge, here are six incredible tips from public speaking coach, Eileen Smith of Spokesmith , that can elevate you to rock star status in your circles, and keep your audience fully focused and enthusiastically spreading your key points through their networks. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . This is what we need you to do, so roles and responsibilities, those were sent out in advance before anybody then ultimately committed. . I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go.

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Allegiance Group

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whether revenue comes from a previous campaign, a particular audience, or a giving package, clean data can show you where you’re going and eliminate potential problems. By focusing on outcome language — what you alone can do because of your unique impact in this world — donors will naturally gravitate toward giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Soha: What are some of the best ways you have seen the program build and evolve young audiences in the community? 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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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

Align on roles, responsibilities, and expectations. More often than not, you are not your target audience —and that’s who we need to make sure the work connects with. Here are some questions, framed from your audience’s POV, that might be helpful: Do I understand the message or feeling you’re communicating? Thank you kindly.).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

While the evaluation component of the report is focused on the extent to which these various projects promote science learning and behavior change among participants, the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Software and toolkits can play a crucial role in streamlining the donation process and creating a more convenient and engaging experience for potential donors looking to contribute to your cause. Once you find a blog with a voice or writing style you like, you’ll be able to absorb a plethora of knowledge online. Optimized fundraising.

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Everyaction

MARCH 14, 2018

girls have even lent their voices to this powerful movement. This is a horrifying statistic and furthers the need for girls' voices and their perspectives to be represented in the #MeToo movement. Adults have a huge responsibility to support young people using their voice and stand with them. As Girls Inc.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. They oversee activities and play a large role in determining how you spend your budget and the goals you set.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Then, allow them to make their voices heard with a survey or poll. When done right, nonprofit email marketing can be a powerful tool for connecting with your audience and converting them into donors, volunteers, and engaged supporters. Communicate the importance of your mission and how subscribers can play a role.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

The whole pack is designed to speak to the reasons of why supporters give in their own language. It’s like you are sharing with them things that they do like, and you are talking everything in the language that they like so they feel if they give, it is about what they care about. This just feel way too manipulative.”

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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. I want to talk about how you can inspire your audience using imagery and creative communication. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. Voice was being one of those. Expression.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This campaign focused on language, specifically, the accent (Kasra) that, in Arabic, is placed underneath a word to emphasize that word is feminine or addressed to women. It leads audiences to look behind the dominant narrative, at the details." Choose Your Approach — How Involved Is Your Audience? spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This campaign focused on language, specifically, the accent (Kasra) that, in Arabic, is placed underneath a word to emphasize that word is feminine or addressed to women. It leads audiences to look behind the dominant narrative, at the details." Choose Your Approach — How Involved Is Your Audience? spanhidden.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

While all of these figures played a different role in the realm of elections and voting, the historic actions they took earned them meaningful feature stories in media outlets in the lead up to and after the election. It’s no surprise audiences gravitate towards stories that feature a well-known figure.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It is critical to accommodate the diverse needs of this audience to foster a truly inclusive educational environment. Compatibility with assistive technologies like screen readers, voice recognition software, or alternative input devices, is critical. Does It Facilitate Language Translation?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It is critical to accommodate the diverse needs of this audience to foster a truly inclusive educational environment. Compatibility with assistive technologies like screen readers, voice recognition software, or alternative input devices, is critical. Does It Facilitate Language Translation?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It is critical to accommodate the diverse needs of this audience to foster a truly inclusive educational environment. Compatibility with assistive technologies like screen readers, voice recognition software, or alternative input devices, is critical. Does It Facilitate Language Translation?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. Everything from thinking about - who is your audience? Everyone is entitled to art in their life.

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