The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2024

When crafting messages for your donors, it’s crucial to use language that is easily understood and engaging. Aim to write at a sixth-grade reading level, using simple language and avoiding complex jargon or technical terms. One simple yet effective technique is to send regular thank-you messages.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Technique 2: The Clueless Close. The second technique is the clueless close.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. For example, regarding the importance of staying humble, Jacobs writes, “Coming out on top when your company is under attack feels thrilling in the moment. Building an outrageously talented team. Catalyzing electric meetings.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, if the training data contains a disproportionate amount of text from a particular demographic group, the model may struggle to understand or generate text related to other groups. These include techniques such as debiasing and adversarial training, which aim to reduce the impact of biased data on the model’s output.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Here are two different examples for the same fundraising Ask.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. For example, grantmakers could commit to working with their grants management system provider to leverage existing data repositories that contain nonprofit data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

For example, Keela’s AI tools help nonprofits segment donors. Exploring Advanced Strategies AI-driven fundraising uses a wide range of techniques. They also use predictive analytics and natural language processing. Nonprofits can use AI-powered tools. They reach them through the best channels.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 23, 2021

Use Strategic Language To Market Your Event. Using the right language is a large part of what drives exclusivity marketing. In addition to using strategic language, consider making the event invite-only. By tapping into these exclusivity marketing techniques, you can set yourself up for a successful event.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, ChatGPT is easy to learn and use. This versatile tool can generate text, translate languages, create diverse forms of creative content, and more. For example, short-form video content is king right now and will likely continue to remain so for the foreseeable future. Embrace ever-evolving social media trends.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. A “Why” Statement. Reinforcements.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

For example, adding a Salesforce SMS app to your nonprofit’s Salesforce database allows you to quickly create segments based on your existing donor data. As you draft your messages, focus on incorporating clear calls to action, using personalized language, and appealing to supporters’ emotions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Speak at half your normal speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Another common technique that many nonprofits use to way to build relationships is to acknowledge and celebrate staff’s birthdays. These are just a few of many examples of using technology to facilitate staff relationships and encourage workplace wellbeing. And, of course, there is a pizza ordering slack bot.).

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Implement inclusive language and content. In this guide, we’ll explore different ways to enhance your nonprofit’s recruitment and talent acquisition strategies with email.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Peer-to-peer-fundraising is a technique that thousands of nonprofits and charities use to get current supporters fundraising on behalf of the organization, and it’s a great, easy way for you to engage with a cause you care about. One example is Innovation: Africa ‘s ongoing iCampaign. ” tweet this.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your donor engagement strategy may outline different recognition tiers by gift amount ($50 donations receive a shout-out in your newsletter, and $250 donations receive a plaque, for example). Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. These techniques can help.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

AI, which uses machine learning techniques for streamlining the operations and enhancing programs at the nonprofits, has acted as a catalyst in transforming many organizations. An example of innovative AI is The Yeshi chatbot, created by Charity, which educates people about clean water. Resolving food and water crises.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, chatbots can answer frequently asked questions, provide donation options, and even help donors set up recurring gifts. Tools like GPT3 can be built into Google Spreadsheets and then used to write functions or clean up data, add context and a lot more. #4 This can lead to increased donor retention and revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Here’s some examples. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples. DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing. Natural language processing is concerned with the interaction between computers and human language. My GPS is a good example of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Take for example, the mundane and time-consuming task of culling the donor database to create a prospect list. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Here’s a copy of the initial email as an example: Subject: Help wish Beth Kanter a happy 53rd! It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. Use jargon or industry-specific language. When I focus on donors, it’s a matter of which program they want to support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it. Words : Language is tricky. Read more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Before we took a deep dive with Janet on social awareness skills, we had a short session on understanding non-verbal communication such as body language. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I was lucky enough to be working with the digital strategy coordinator, Maria Rubi , from the Mexico office. She is not only fluent in English (and four other languages in addition to her native Spanish), she is also an excellent trainer and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages. This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

While stating that it is still too early to say how successful this has been they give some examples of how this has worked and discuss improvements needed. Big Data and Global Development. He says while this contrasts with other data collection methods used by the open data community it was better able to identify outbreaks. Data Resources.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Although the election-year onslaught of political marketing can sometimes seem excessive, in many ways it is extremely effective and offers a unique example for nonprofits to follow. As the campaign season kicks into high gear, here are a few trends we’re seeing in 2018 campaigns that nonprofits could benefit from as well!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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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. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. How are you using social network analysis techniques and tools to analyze your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. For example, during the lab session, we got a terrific question about bilingual Fan Pages on Facebook. What are your thoughts? How do you do it?

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