Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications. Curated content relevant to your mission. Be generous with endorsing the skills of others as endorsements are often reciprocated.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Use descriptive language, and let your excitement shine through when talking about your work. How many homeless people will get a meal because your donor chips in $50? Did a man who had been staying at the homeless shelter for a long time find permanent housing? Instead, let people know exactly how they can make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." What language is this? " What do you think? Although WordPress displays in U.S.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

After thinking about it for a bit, my answer was clear—data has no language and no borders. I want to shout out to all the Community members providing content and blogs to the Tableau Community in multiple languages and making data skills more accessible across the world.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

After thinking about it for a bit, my answer was clear—data has no language and no borders. I want to shout out to all the Community members providing content and blogs to the Tableau Community in multiple languages and making data skills more accessible across the world.

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JUNE 11, 2023

For example, an animal shelter might use an offer like: “For just $6.20, we can provide a day’s worth of food, shelter, and medical care for a homeless dog or cat.” For example, a soup kitchen might use this offer: “For $1.87, we can provide a hot meal to a homeless person.” Avoid jargon, acronyms, and insider language.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This past spring, we launched a program with the Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP), an inspiring organization that has served San Francisco for 30 years using the pivotal moment of pregnancy and parenthood as an opportunity to partner with families and break the cycle of childhood poverty.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Symbols and language to make your appeal more Jewish-inclusive: The menorah is the primary symbol of Hanukkah, a candelabra that is lit one candle at a time while blessings are recited. Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

With the help of our friends at VRP Consulting , we now have a ‘proof of concept’ engine which sucks out the audio, turns that into a text transcript, and identifies language that’s important to us based on our theory of change. Obviously, that would be resource heavy and subjective.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

So everyone understands the language, what it is what we’re intending to do, and it’s tied then to metrics, that it’s a shared metric system. So what I’ve seen happen has been around Valley of the Sun United Way ’s "ending homeless” objective, and we've focused around chronically homeless. So, that’s the second element.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. The language in the mission statement should feel the same way that the brand feels. Concise, Powerful Language Your list of brand words should contain descriptive adjectives and verbs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. There is a category for traditional and social media and a couple of paragraphs in the report.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

For our client All In , a campaign uplifting proven solutions to homelessness in San Francisco, we’re using supporter surveys to inform the content for a neighborhood resource guide intended to foster community leadership. . And they certainly don’t want problems that seem insurmountable like sexual violence or homelessness.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language.

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Achieve

APRIL 22, 2015

I worked for an organization whose mission was to break the cycle of homelessness in our community, and we were laser-focused on helping our clients lead independent lives free from any public support. This is tough to accomplish, because the causes of homelessness are complex as well as unique to each individual. That’s it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. The whole speech is 12 minutes, and if you want some tips about reaching millenials I’d advise watching the whole thing [quick tip: animals and homelessness].

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AUGUST 8, 2022

Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Thank you for your support.” …plus the standard default language. While an automated message is easy to set up, the default language (which most people use) is vague and too cookie-cutter to be meaningful. For example, “Your donation of $10 will provide a day’s food and care for a homeless veteran. See the hero language?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For our client All In , a campaign uplifting proven solutions to homelessness in San Francisco, we used supporter surveys to inform the content for a neighborhood resource guide intended to foster community leadership. And they certainly don’t want problems that seem insurmountable like homelessness, for example.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless workers say low pay and understaffing are contributing to high turnover, exacerbating what they contend are already difficult working conditions. What brought me back to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is our mission and the 800-plus people dedicated to work on this mission,” she said.

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Achieve

MARCH 30, 2016

While the typical solicitation often includes language from an organization’s mission and values statements, it rarely appeals to potential supporters with a unique and compelling proposition. Here are a few examples of the kind of language that works well when presenting your “ask”: “Opportunity to…”. Think of it this way.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We Make the Ask using as specific language as possible. Ask a question: Will you help us solve the #1 problem facing homeless families? . We cannot thank you enough.” .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Language barriers For those who are not fluent in English, language barriers can create additional challenges and make it difficult to access certain opportunities and succeed in certain fields. The best schools drive home the need to access the wisdom and economic opportunities of those who have already carved out a successful career.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2024

“I can’t tell you how many duplicates I have cleaned up because someone entered a prospect without checking first,” said Amy Barker, database administrator for Pine Street Inn , a Boston nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. We assumed the digital space was all new.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. Phone or In Person?

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APRIL 9, 2023

Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. Gregory Ciotti wrote about the 5 most persuasive words in the English language and how “certain power words hold more sway over our decision making process than others.”

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2024

You might want to illuminate the various public perspectives around homelessness in a specific region. Are you seeking to explore the language that people use and how their perspectives change over time? You might seek to explore the various factors that are causing a reduction in the bird population near a reservoir.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!” Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand. Make it part of the header or main menu so it shows up on every page.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

Make programs more fundable One powerful tactic in nonprofit fundraising is to break down your program budgets into clear categories and then translate them into “fundraising language.” Many nonprofits have not yet broken down their expenses into these bite-sized donation amounts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Make data the language. In fact, as we show in the book, in cases like efforts to reduce homelessness, non-governmental leaders often play a big role in creating public value. Among those ten core principles are: Reframe accountability. Knock down barriers. Eggers & Kettl : Making policy work isn’t a spectator sport.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

New technology incorporating ChatGPT and other generative language tools can help you develop quality first drafts and will increasingly integrate with common productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Automate, and the G-suite. That first automation inspired the next. “It It was a game-changer for us,” she said.

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Achieve

APRIL 6, 2017

In fact, within an organization and with others in the sector, it can make language more effective and create a sense of unity. Do: “Our organization continuously works to find shelter for homeless individuals in Fountain Square.”. This isn’t to say that using jargon is always a bad thing. Outside the sector, though, it’s different.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. She received both a Bachelor’s in Spanish Language & Literature and a Master of Public Administration degree from Binghamton University.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Spend the time to carefully craft what you want to say, then consistently use that language. Instead, ask people to give to save a dog, tutor a child, or feed a homeless person. Consistency will help people remember your message and your cause, which will increase your response rate and your revenue. Lack of special thanks.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.” Track progress.

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