Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. In such a case, note on their donor record that they prefer privacy, so they won’t get another request to share about their decision to give. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

Pulling from experience with thousands of RFPs, Prosal shares five best practices to enhance your RFP writing process. Use resources like Google and professional networks to ask questions. If you prefer to meet with consultants directly, consider a Request for Conversations. It’s incredibly demoralizing!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Define the parameters of a conversation from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings. Understand the power dynamics of an interaction to eliminate the fear of honest conversation.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 11, 2024

” questions, we open ourselves to new ideas, accept failure as part of the learning process, and create opportunities for innovation. The best part of this is AI can help you brainstorm and answer these questions. ” questions relevant to your role or organization. By asking “How can…?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. In many cases, it would be a much more efficient use of time to cut way back on organic posts, and instead concentrate on developing a few really effective, conversions-focused ad campaigns. .

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

Here are a few central questions to get you there: What is our association deeply passionate about? You can see conversations grouped together by sentiment: positive, neutral, or negative. The same can happen by listening to conversations in your online community. How can you set up better collaboration and document sharing?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

How do we know whether we’re asking the “right” questions, in the “right” way, when designing and evaluating programs? These questions can help design research and evaluations that are more inclusive when determining what is studied, how it is studied, and how the findings are used within nonprofit organizations and beyond.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The essence of knowledge work—shared meaning making—is how we come together to understand the world we are living in and co-create our society. Embracing the notion of shared meaning making enables us to name the specific ways that knowledge work supports both effectiveness of grantmaking AND social change at the same time.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This GivingTuesday, you may want to try something a little different as part of your social media strategy : Consider social media sharing and engagement as a form of generosity. In this blog, we’ll dive into why social media sharing is useful on GivingTuesday and a great way to encourage generosity.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions. Take it out.

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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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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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Conversation Product Lesson Reflection 69

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In 2020, these steps will be a response to certain trends and conversations you’ve likely caught wind of over the last few years. The Rise of Giving Experiences and Conversations About Sustainable Impact. Though the notorious Pineapple Fund was a fleeting effort, blockchain is still very much a part of social good conversations.

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Trend Fundraising San Diego Philanthropy 271

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Content Calendar Language Social Media 351

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

You’d be surprised how often people share about nonprofit events they’ve attended or projects they’ve taken part in. Once you know your nonprofit’s activity is being seen by all your new followers, it’s time to post share-worthy content that’ll remind them why they support your cause. 4) Find new, creative ways to show impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The question is, do most fundraisers know their website analytics ? You can further follow-up on these non-converting prospects with perhaps a series of telephone calls aimed at further conversion. The aim is to keep sharing and inviting them to support the organization.

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Social Media Donor Media Social 354

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s like seeing a new place through the eyes of a local, where you engage in authentic conversations, share personal experiences, and build a community that’s genuinely interested in your cause. Instead, share your mission through stories and behind-the-scenes looks at your work. Make eye contact with your audience.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Ask if anyone has any questions. Do you have one in place?

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 101

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

So if the question is not should you include personalized communications, it has to be how do you use personalization in your email marketing program to enhance your relationship with your supporters. This means that using CTAs to show the recipient how to expand their individual relationship with you can increase conversions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shares attention-grabbing staff stories from the front lines, to raise awareness of international crises such as the violent campaign against the Rohingya people in Myanmar: View Story. Share helpful, valuable information on the issue. Amirah, Inc. Use data and statistics to shed light on the problem.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Spouses, kids, roommates, and pets all shared a workspace. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. While listeners are responsible for hearing what is said before formulating a response and asking follow-up questions that ensure they have correctly understood.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

From the Peterson Institute for International Economics—increasing the share of women in senior management positions by just 10% could boost annual corporate profits by $1.2 I had an interesting conversation with a client about association boards. They must focus on big-picture questions. trillion globally.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

I was thrilled to share my ideas with a group of savvy association professionals. To jump start the conversation, she offered these thought-provoking observations about how associations are positioned today and how they might approach the future differently. HEART is a concept I’ve been developing over the last six months.

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Leadership Technology Associations Culture 221

The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve been having conversations with my team, friends in the industry and fellow CEOs about what to expect in 2022 and we all agree that next year will be another wild ride. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? Not gonna lie.

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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. Because this is a fun fact, I’m sharing it with you.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Great conversation, a little bubbly, and treats at the Innovation Summit. This format uses informal conversations to explore key questions and weave thoughts and ideas into a collective tapestry of knowledge. She explained how to use Blue Ocean Strategy to give your organization the edge in crowded digital markets.

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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. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover: their unique stressors. When and where did you observe the behavior?

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Conversation Time Articulate Case Study 69

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Define the parameters of a conversation from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings. Understand the power dynamics of an interaction to eliminate the fear of honest conversation.

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Conversation Leadership Relationship Awareness 59

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Distribute the Wealth Are the IT resources shared equally throughout your organization? To maintain market share, keeping systems up-to-date and customer-friendly is critical. We start with a conversation. Seventy-two questions assess strengths and weaknesses across these nine areas of activity: 1.

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Technology Attitude Evaluation Digital 221

.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Jane and Amy shared insights about the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into marketing programs. I wasn’t able to cover Jane and Amy’s conversation in one post, so I’m taking up the thread again here. I would also ask you questions about your company and its industry. After Bard responds, the files can be deleted.

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Team Marketing Build Analysis 221

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

JULY 22, 2024

Know Who You Are With an action-oriented structure in place, you have the foundation for exploring probing questions like these: Why does the association exist? These questions should lead to gathering and analyzing the data to assess the organization’s current situation and investigate future scenarios.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

I am absolutely loving the conversations I’m having with my guests, some of whom are clients, while many are not. The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. What are some of the themes that are emerging? Then, they act.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. Giving every employee, no matter how junior, the opportunity to share ideas and the agency to manage their work creates an expectation for thought leadership across the organization.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Ideas 221

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Americans today question the value of a college degree and mistrust the so-called “ivory tower” experts. They also distrust the media, calling bias and questioning facts. Many attendees expressed surprise over the trust statistics that we shared. Higher education and the media have been hard hit with trust issues.

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