The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Sounds like a dream? When they raise their voices, mountains move. With each signature, you’re not just gathering names; you’re weaving a tapestry of supporters united for a common goal. Lobby days are your opportunity to show strength in numbers and to make every conversation with a legislator count.

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Media Cause

JUNE 2, 2024

Even if your content is about a popular topic, issue, or goal, what is your unique point of view? Do they align with your goals and the audience’s needs? Once you have determined the purpose, craft your content so that it meets the goal, speaks in your brand voice, and can be easily understood by your audience.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the face of really tough — and often seemingly insurmountable — challenges, our customers have continued to innovate, grow, and surpass their goals. I’m so encouraged by some of the results that came out of our latest Nonprofit Trends Report , which noted that 33% of nonprofits actually exceeded their fundraising goals this past year.

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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. Depending on your capacity and goals, you should set a regular cadence for checking comments and direct messages.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it? 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. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone. Encouraging conversations. You don’t have to write perfect 3.5

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This week is the first anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals —a set of 17 goals and 169 targets to save millions of lives, to protect our planet, and to stop a large range of injustices. I know, it sounds like a lot. Our voices are wasted if not used to speak out about injustices. It’s important to be loud.

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

Key elements to keep in mind should include: Your logo Color scheme Typography Imagery Brand voice And more! You certainly don’t want them to get to the end of your message and think, “That sounds confusing. Encourage Two-Way Communication Much of nonprofit email marketing would be considered a one-sided conversation.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 3, 2015

As you might imagine, the conversation usually turns pretty quickly to other subjects. Stop sounding like other nonprofits. It can be tricky to balance industry best practices with the need to cultivate your organization’s unique voice, but it’s essential: if you sound like everyone else, you’ll end up getting lost in the crowd.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Studies show that fundraisers with specific goal amounts are more successful than open-ended fundraisers. Your donors want to SEE that their dollars REALLY do make a difference in moving you towards your goal. Keep the conversation flowing for 15-20 minutes. How much money are you trying to raise? Transition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social? It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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Byte Technology

MAY 6, 2015

No matter the cause, your goal is to encourage further exploration of your site, rather than bombard the viewer with information from the outset. People truly interested in a specific cause want to hear their own voice as part of the conversation. What is the experience a user has when interacting with your website?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Your goal should be to write a power-packed thank-you letter that makes the donor think “I love this nonprofit – they do such good work.” Your thank-you letter should touch the reader’s heart, not sound like an academic paper. Use my Kitchen Table Exercise to develop your conversational writing voice.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This might sound easy, but sharing an idea with your board, boss, or team can be tricky, even nerve-wracking. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Or you’re stuck.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It also means your communications need to feel like a virtual conversation, meeting their need for interesting, relevant information — not just whatever you feel like telling them. Which sounds better? That means you need to pay attention to what you are sharing with donors and when, and how often they hear from you.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

This sounds so obvious, but not planning ahead is easily one of the most frequent mistakes I see organizations making. Creating an year-long strategy with clearly stated goals/. What are your goals? Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. .

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

My husband would swear it's because I love the sound of my own voice, but really, I like it best when I get to hear the questions and comments from the crowd. We had a bunch of brilliant folks in the room who were really excited about the idea of participating in conversations, not just shouting from the rooftops.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Recently, I had a conversation with Annaliese of NTEN , and a couple of Community TechKnowledge (CTK) staff members. Urging the guest experts and me, as we recorded each episode, to have fun and to be conversational. He did this assuring us that he would edit the resulting podcast into something that made us sound smart.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 9, 2016

The bottom line may not be the driving goal behind nonprofit work, but, let’s face it, we all need money. You want to understand their goals, constraints and processes so your proposal can match their needs and meet their expectations. Once you have folks hooked on a common goal, it’s easy to get lost in the details of your strategy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation. If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. If you’re ready to have uncomfortable conversations that are momentary. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

OneCause — Top Fundraising App for Mobile Bidding OneCause offers multiple mobile-optimized tools that can help your organization achieve its fundraising goals for events. They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Qgiv’s app automates that process and saves your nonprofit time.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The voices are in the room. In my experience, the conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion has focused primarily on the WHY and WHAT. It sounds too prescriptive, tactical, or boring. Our goal is to make it easy to understand how to move forward in becoming representative of your community and co-created by them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal. It invites spontaneity and diversity of voice on a range of social media outlets, from Facebook to Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram. But then, a few things happened. We started.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

They can be the first thing a person sees about your nonprofit; allowing its voice and message to come through with unique combinations of visual styles, music, and narrative. But if it sounds like a lot, don’t be discouraged! Also, casually drop images and sound effects alongside your name and logo to reinforce the impact.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . The goals changed. – [Steven] Yeah.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I sat down with David Chesebrough (CEO), Kelli Nowinsky (PR Manager), and Kevin Pferfelle (Web Manager), to learn more about how the COSI team approaches social technology and how it fits into the overall goals and strategy of the institution. All social media projects are mission-driven and strongly aligned to institutional goals.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Creating a nonprofit social media plan sounds like such a daunting task, doesn’t it? Any of these goals can be accomplished with original or shared content, videos, memes, and photos. Lighting and SOUND matter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Their ideas were delightful, and their contributions shifted the conversation about what family-friendly really looks like. Child-initiated, shared decisions with adults: Goal isn’t about “kids’ power.” Lots of trust involved Adults serve as listeners, observers and sounding boards (i.e. Non-Participation 6.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Technology can’t have those conversations for you. How to Get Started That all sounds nice, but what specific steps can you take to use technology to make your messages feel more personal? How to Get Started Now, remember, your goal won’t be to automate every single communication you send to your supporters.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Background: Why They Did What They Did The Henry Art Gallery exhibition we worked with, Vortexhibition Polyphonica , was intended to explore three big ideas: Different voices “intervene” or add new points of view to the exhibition at periodic intervals. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. Dirty Laundry had buttons.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

One of the many ways they do this is often by being the sole, or one of just a few, voices advising on financial health issues – critical for any nonprofit. If it is larger, most likely it means that the organization has unrestricted receivables (perhaps grant pledges) that may be available for conversion to cash in the near future.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

We decided to develop three things: Clear engagement goals that define how we do our work A theory of change to connect what we do to the impact we seek An engagement handbook to provide an overview of our goals, our theory of change, and the programs where they are manifest I’ve written about the engagement goals before.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Your goal in the first part of the letter is to get your reader’s attention. Make your letter as personal and conversational in tone as you can. Make it sound like you sat down and wrote it to a friend. Never use the passive voice when you can use the active voice. THE APPEAL LETTER: HOW TO DRAW YOUR DONORS IN.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Reference metrics like open and click-through rates, conversion rate, and return on ad spend (ROAS). Use these data points to illustrate growth and progress toward your goal. Make sure that your central message aligns with your broader nonprofit branding and top organizational goals. Ask for their feedback.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

My goal here is to give you as much value as possible in lots of different ways. I really believe in it, but I’m going to have a fundraising goal and I’m going to have some responsibilities that I’m not sure I’m ready for it. So much accountability, but had no idea how I was going to get to that goal.

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