CauseVox

AUGUST 29, 2023

As we navigate the aftermath of this decline and the broader post-pandemic landscape, it’s crucial to understand the transformations in donor behavior. Our latest research through the CauseVox Giving Study, delves deep into the dynamics of today’s donor preferences, uncovering evolving challenges and unprecedented opportunities.

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Philanthropy Donor Participatory Storytelling 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. She showed us her name on a donor wall in the museum. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What kind of participatory techniques have you seen work well on tours? What made it so special?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Development works when you are responsive to the donor's needs, not just presenting your own." As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. "Fundraising is about relationships." "The The key to fundraising is listening."

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 73

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Foundation 98

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

Participants for Mobile Tech 4 Social Change barcamps include nonprofits, mobile app developers, researchers, donors, intermediary organizations, and mobile operators. Participatory and interactive. In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone.

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Mobile San Jose Change Tech 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Through collaboration with stakeholders, an organization can implement specified programs, leading to higher success.

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Collaboration Effective Nonprofit North Carolina 98

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While nonprofits may aim to achieve an equitable mission for the community, nonprofits also draw in donors, board members, and employees. Capitulation to this style of philanthropy further neglects millennials donors, who lag behind the financial impact of previous generations. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking.

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Practice Effective Social Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Model Support Nonprofit Social Media 105

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Employees, volunteers, donors, community members want to feel connected to the organizations they care about. There is no benefit to discounting any individual or group from participating in the planning process.

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Process Effective Nonprofit Wyoming 98

Forum One

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Democratized problem-solving: These tools can empower communities and stakeholders to actively participate in solution design, promoting a more inclusive and participatory approach. These tools can analyze donor preferences and behaviors to tailor fundraising approaches and target potential donors more effectively.

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Government Impact Digital Trend 94

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical.

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Data Demographics Participatory Aggregator 98

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona?

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s a big question on nonprofits’ minds, which are trying to engage with them early in hopes of developing long-term relationships with these future donors. Will the Millennials be a generation of social activists or slacktivists? Unfortunately, Millennials have been portrayed as the “me generation&#.

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Active Activism Activities Internet 77

Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

There have been innovations with respect to the grantmaking process and decision making, like participatory grantmaking and trust-based philanthropy. The foundation hopes to see family foundations, donor-advised fund (DAF) account holders, and other philanthropists exploring new sets of options, including nonprofit endowments.

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Build Nonprofit Philanthropy Foundation 111

Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

This session will illustrate how to do just that to grantmakers, board members, donors, and volunteers without spending countless hours building endless spreadsheets and reports. Many nonprofit organizations know they are making a difference in their unique communities, but do they also know how to showcase that impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Instead of donating via a big institution like United Way that parcels out money on donors’ behalf, people can support a specific family in a specific place affected by a specific problem. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. But which platform is best for your group?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

With increasingly international employee relationships, outsourcing and supply chains, this leaves donors exposed to reputational risk if they do not directly support communities along their footprints.” . One of them said: “As the rich get vaccinated, the poor remain exposed to the virus.

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Case Study Europe Practice Studies 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum Director Participatory Community 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Social Media Library Media Social 94

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. Some are very specific and useful--postcard petitions to sign and send, a "click to give" campaign run in partnership with a corporate donor. The largest was a "wish canopy" that hangs above the entire gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I'm a donor and let me tell you why. They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. Crowdfunding allows you to harness the power of the crowd in a way that is affordable, efficient, and effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Capacity development as a practice emerged from the dissatisfaction with externally led, paternalistic, technocratic support offered by donors and Western nations. We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions.

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Results Program Build Help 96

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). The site connects with individuals who want to help out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. While my in-box filled up with many GivingTuesday requests from nonprofits that I support, I was struck by the creativity of how each organization incorporated giving Tuesday into fundraising or donor recognition campaigns.

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Philanthropy Gift Participatory Global 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Any system that will allow particpation of both vendors and customers (or donors and fundraisers, or politicians and supporters.) starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. We are all both customers and vendors. But what does a VRM/CRM collaboration look like?

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience. During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience. During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries.

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NTC Share Create Storytelling 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking. Mobilize Funders and Partner Organizations.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

From the belief statement (also called the opening or donor statement) and opening sentence or two to pull quotes, calls to action, and the ever-important P.S. line, you have a limited amount of space (and time) in which to capture potential donors’ attention, communicate your story, and, of course, persuade them to donate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. We'll need donors. We'll need interns.

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