.orgSource

OCTOBER 1, 2023

What could be more personal than a good old-fashioned conversation? Post-pandemic, we’re seeing more businesses realize the value of conversational marketing, or actually talking with their customers and letting them respond. Consider this—the typical sales funnel puts a conversation at the end of multiple one-way interactions.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its critical to ask the right questions to ensure a good fit and that the candidate has the capacity to be an active and effective board member not just a name on the letterhead. Review each goal of the strategic plan and ask these three questions : What are the most important things the board needs to do (versus the staff)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

One question that I see nonprofits constantly asking, and with good reason: “Can social media really bring in new donors for our nonprofit?” When raising money online (or offline) you must be able to succinctly answer this question for your potential donors: Why this? And the way to increase conversions? Even better?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

I was inspired to try this practice. Davidson was right: It not only transformed our conversation, but the entire nature of my day. Through the Centers nonprofit, Healthy Minds Innovations , they translate their findings into evidence-based practices for individuals and organizations to cultivate well-being.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

It was a comprehensive process including an open-call part 1, an invitation-only part 2, a site visit for finalists, and a presentation highlighting best practices. Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. We needed to change up our questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Written by Findjoo , this is the second post in a series of three about best practices in digital marketing and fundraising for membership organizations and associations. Thankfully, many social media networks will have mechanisms that will allow you to have a private conversation. Respond to messages fast. Respond to messages fast.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

One of the main areas that has seen renewed interest due to enhanced capabilities is chatbots and conversational AI. This in turn enables conversational AI and advanced chatbot applications that produce highly contextual and informed responses for users based on custom data models and sources.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions. Being targeted about the questions we ask on applications and throughout our grantee relationships helps to frame understandings, document learning, and identify challenges or barriers. or “What is the geographic location served?”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The more self-aware you are and the more you practice the Communication Code, the more natural it will be for you to understand the person with whom you are communicating. The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

There isnt a magic answer to navigate every crisis but here are a few best practices to consider as you operate on the frontlines of helping shore up funding for your organization. Stakeholders will want to know that you are asking the right questions more than having all the answers right away. Its ok to not have all the answers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

The practice of aging in place aligns with preferences for familiar places and routines and preserves our sense of independence. These preferences, though, raise questions about what support seniors want and need in their current homes. Most of us want to remain in our existing homes as we grow older.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. Bonus question: what percentage of the organizations you work with are tax-exempt?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Collis , a leading expert on civil discourse, reveals ten practical habits that can help you navigate the potential minefields of hard topics and leave you and those you converse with feeling thoughtful and productive. When to deploy tight, slightly self-deprecating humor to lower the conversational temperature.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

4 actionable tips for growing your nonprofit funder network Now, it’s time to get the conversation started. Pro tip: Liking and sharing is the easy part, but if you really want to stand out, try to spark a conversation. Ask interesting questions or give thoughtful feedback on funders’ posts.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? Mobile giving trends Over the past few years, theres been an open question in the nonprofit sector about whether mobile giving is worthy of a significant focus. Well cover: What is mobile giving?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our DEI journey began with the realization that we lacked key perspectives that could enhance our work and further align internal practices with our mission. This led us to examine our practices and identify areas where we could do better. We continuously asked ourselves, “How can we disrupt inequality in our work?”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Coffman stated in their GuideStar article : Theres no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. Theres also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. As Chuck McLean and Suzanne E.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore? The answers to these questions will help guide your design decisions anytime you encounter organizational changes… or global pandemics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

To help you dive right in, this posts provides an overview of the tools available, best practices, and examples to make your chosen AI writing tool work for you. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. And then everything changed.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In a conversation with Angela Coaxum, a partner with Your Part-Time Controller, LLC , she shared four ways nonprofit leadership can support a strong finance team. Similarly, create an environment that welcomes respectful questions about the overall strategy of the organization. A world-class finance department will help you evolve.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Walk in my shoes—Create a series of questions about various emotions like “How does it feel to be afraid of public speaking?” Each participant draws a question and answers it from the perspective of another person in the group. Intentional communication brings a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to every conversation.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

LLMs are meant to produce conversational human language responses. That’s why it’s important to have internal conversations about how much data your organization feels comfortable sharing and what data is proprietary and should not be used with public AI tools.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Their preparedness and preferred style for working are often questioned and criticized. I have personally found that many of the conversations around Gen Z in the workforce do not grow our understanding around how we need to adjust our management approaches to fully leverage what this extraordinary generation brings to the table.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover 20 best practices to help you create an effective online donation page that drives more online fundraising revenue for your nonprofit. These best practices fall into the following categories: Optimizing your donation page design. Maximizing online donations. Let’s get started. Maximizing online donations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen The authors share these additional insights: Question: When did you decide to write your book and how did the pandemic influence your book? Question: With so many workforces still working from home what can leaders do to lessen worker loneliness? Encourage every team member to participate.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 21, 2025

But despite the vast digital transformation, increased use of social media, and focus on sustainability and equity practices since then, there remains some longstanding challenges that nonprofit organizations will always continue to grapple with. Case in point: Board management.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We often started our working sessions with leadership and teaming exercises and discussions, and we then put those learnings into practice throughout the process. We also had hard conversations about mission (why we exist) and vision (what kind of world we’re working toward). These were important conversations and not easy.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

There are endless unanswered questions about where technology, and particularly AI, will take us, our lifestyles, and our careers. I’ve always regarded Garth as a forward thinker, but during our conversation, he revealed a futurist credential that surprised me. But then the conversation started to shift.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

presents a groundbreaking approach to reducing workplace stress and building resilience through conversation. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover: their unique stressors. His best practices for these types of Feedback Conversations include for: Giving praise Experience : Look for the where, when and what.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the basic differences between startups and large companies out of the way, I wanted to create a list of questions that was specific for a Data Engineer — versus general questions that anyone should ask (e.g. If you want advice on general startup interview questions, let me Google that for you. how much runway do you have?).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. But with regular practice, even introverts can be comfortable contributing.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

DeepL Voice for Conversations does the same thing, but for one-on-one conversations happening on mobile devices. The Harvey Assistant can read and analyze cases and other data faster than a human lawyer or legal assistant, and can draft documents, analyze information, and answer questions about hundreds of complex legal files.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

People love live video as a way to interact in real-time with the nonprofits they care about, ask questions, and get a fuller picture of the humans behind the brand. . goes live frequently to answer questions from supporters and to make announcements about new projects and initiatives: View Story. Amirah, Inc.

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