Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2016

Is cancer more important than homelessness, child abuse a higher priority than infant mortality? Are there specific needs in the neighborhood, problems that you want to help fix? Let’s face it, deciding how your business should give can be hard. Which nonprofit is the best one to support? How do you pick one over the other?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The mission of the Skid Row School is to train leaders to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems as rapidly as possible. It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. Igniting events and activities?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For more, read a deep dive into each of the six episode focuses: nutrition insecurity, health equity, workforce development, homelessness, mental health, and climate action. Health equity isn’t just a distant problem; it is a very local problem. How Can We Address Hidden Hunger in Our Communities?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. ” So what?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I know of a faith-based rescue mission who wrestled with accepting a donation from the local strip club for its domestic violence program. You can see how that might be a problem for some of their devout donors to know where the money came from. Avoid legalese and negative language. Keep the policy simple and direct.

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Achieve

APRIL 22, 2015

Business folks said social solutions are meaningless unless they eliminate problems. Nonprofit folks argued that problems were much more complex than their opponents would admit, and that there is a social benefit to simply helping people in need. I thought I was about to find out recently at a conference on social enterprise.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you have to leave early, no problem. You’re speaking my language. If you are, you know, like I said, if you’re a homeless shelter or anything with those sensitive confidentiality thing, tell the story from a different perspective. So look for an email from me later on with those. We’ll get them to you.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 16, 2019

But you could take a cue from local news promos. Because most organizations speak in hazy, nebulous, say-nothing language, concrete language will set you apart and give you a discrete brand identity. And that’s why concrete language is so powerful: It makes you immune to user confusion. It depends on your brand identity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Why do homeless people smell bad?” cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? and displayed in the museum.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ICA remedies that problem by placing a real-time campaign progress bar on their Create Amazing website. Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language.

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