Note to Nonprofit Officials: Block the Jargon! Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
February 4, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Catalyst. Impact. Capacity. These and three other words should be avoided by nonprofit officials, writes Dan Gunderman, director of copy writing for Big Duck, a nonprofit communications consulting company. On the blog for Network for Good, he says the words are either misused, overused, or have simply outlived their usefulness.
- With hundreds of millions or dollars being given to assist Haiti, the fund-raising success is a sign of what nonprofit groups could do if they received more news-media attention and were not frowned upon for spending more money on advertising, says Dan Pallotta, author of Uncharitable, on the Harvard Business Review.
- How can charities use Twitter to effectively raise money? On his blog, Steve Drake, a nonprofit consultant, looks at some previous Twitter fund-raising efforts and offers lessons groups can learn from them.
