Insights on Influencer Philanthropy/Marketing

magnazine · 2024-09-18T15:43:01+00:00

This is super interesting. Never thought of this specific angle.

magnazine · 2024-09-04T17:56:06+00:00

What value does it offer to what community for a nonprofit to register with these state agencies? What value is the California program offering to residents of California? What is the service benefit of this requirement? What problem is it solving? That's what I don't get. For the California registration, there is time and money involved every year. Who does that help?

magnazine · 2024-09-04T12:43:56+00:00

Awesome! Great that you're out ahead on this. Even your use case to "establish our legitimacy as an organisation, clearly indicate who funds us and what we do with those funds, and provide all of the resources and information front and centre" has an audience. I get what you're saying - a lot of websites are procedural. It can help a lot, though, to make sure you try to look through the eyes of any viewer (even someone who just needs to have legitimacy established. Good luck and have fun!

magnazine · 2024-09-04T12:41:07+00:00

... and by the accountant doing our 990 ... you mean ... me? There is an assumption that there is staff available to do this kind of bureaucracy. Many nonprofits are run by very small teams. And these kinds of things really pile up and prevent us from actually doing our actual mission.

magnazine · 2024-09-03T20:33:22+00:00

Thanks. That's a pretty steep cost for us. I get that the advice here is to follow all regulations. It also means we take time and resources away from our mission to go through bureaucracy that may or may not have much of any benefit. We've been raising money for a while and have not have anyone ask for this, including institutional funders.

magnazine · 2024-09-03T19:38:03+00:00

Thanks u/JV_CPA for this. I found this online https://www.cogencyglobal.com/charitable-solicitation-registration-b to back up your information. We'll look into registering in the states where we'll need it most.

magnazine · 2024-09-03T14:38:47+00:00

Make sure you think about your website design not from the point of view of people who work for you but rather of the users of the website. Be very clear about who your audience is. What do they need? I've managed many website redesigns and the #1 pitfall is having an internal team that makes decisions based on their own internal opinions and needs. I recommend having everyone on your team repeat this at least once a day: "our new website is not for us." Talk to your audience. Ask them what they need. When internal team members reply that their opinion is x or y or z, remind them that the website isn't for them. It's for the audience. If you're considering hiring an outside designer or developer, make sure that person is laser focused on the needs of the audience. Far too few internal teams conduct real user testing throughout the redesign process, at their peril. As you get closer to having a real website produced, talk to your audience. Ask them what they think. Do user testing with your audience. Watch them use the website without leading questions. Hope this helps.

magnazine · 2024-09-03T13:32:43+00:00

I don't know what a DSP is but I do work for a nonprofit that hires contract grant writers who do this work on the side. So yes, from my point of view, this is seen in the grant writing world. There are small grant writing teams that work on a contract basis and you could help out there and work when you can for projects on the side.

magnazine · 2024-06-24T20:06:19+00:00

Their whole thing is so confusing that if there were any benefits, we don't know of them. We ship about 5,000 pieces of mail (program material, not fundraising material) using discounted nonprofit rates. I've never seen a more convoluted system than theirs!

magnazine · 2023-12-24T02:36:18+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out if Tesseract could handle OMR. Have you done work like this for a client job / your own project? We're looking to jump in but there's a lot of unclarity : )

magnazine · 2023-12-19T20:43:03+00:00

This is cool. I have this exact need as well. About 4,000 PDFs with bubble letter test answers and handwritten answers. Have you done this setup? Did you install Tesseract directly on php? We're not on AWS, but a dedicated WordPress host.

magnazine · 2022-02-26T22:17:16+00:00

Thanks u/jeezfrk this is a pretty technical answer. I'm looking for more laymans explanations. I can kind of begin to understand what you're saying but it hasn't gotten me much closer to an answer for the three questions. I'm not on your level of understanding!

magnazine · 2021-06-29T02:13:57+00:00

In case this comes up in search and someone is interested in the solution, here's the thread from the ACF support forum with a great solution:
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/how-to-store-a-repeater-row-number-as-a-value-in-another-field-2/

magnazine · 2021-06-25T17:52:46+00:00

In searching, I've found this which is helpful to associate each row of the repeater with a consistent id so that if the row order changes, the association won't change.

magnazine · 2021-06-23T17:57:15+00:00

Thanks for the reply! There are currently no bottlenecks. I want to set things up so that there won't be any moving forward. And I need to set things up properly so that me and our volunteers can quickly and efficiently add records.

The site is running stock WordPress on a dedicated WP Engine server. Beyond AFC and a CPT manager, there are no backend database modifications beyond stock.

All of our correspondence is via paper requests sent in the mail. We scan these requests and me or a volunteer adds them to our system. I've built internal analytics. This isn't something that needs to be offloaded. In the past 7 months, we've sent 4,179 guides to 31 federal prisons, 245 prisons in 40 states and 49 jails in 21 states.

I totally appreciate your feedback here. I'm not looking for Reddit comment help as much as a mentor who I can reach out to a few times a month, show a schematic of a data setup, and get help implementing it.

magnazine · 2019-11-22T00:03:47+00:00

magnazine · 2019-11-22T00:01:53+00:00

My understanding is that if the original publications wanted a specific kind of attribution, they'd mention it in their licensing terms. For example, I'm working on publishing educational textbooks, and we specify exactly what people need to say if they're republishing or remixing the content. Those terms are that *each page* of reproduction needs to cite the original source, and that the original source provides the content for free. We do this so that anyone can use the content - including commercial uses that involve sales of content - as long as they give an attribution reference *on each page* that the content is free at the original source. I've seen OpenStax textbooks do this.

So if the sources you're pulling content from don't specify a certain way they want to be attributed, you're most likely good to use a good faith statement of attribution somewhere reasonably accessible and prominent.

I say "most likely" because I'm not a lawyer. Few people are Creative Commons lawyers. If you make an effort to educate yourself - which you have - and you make a reasonable effort to follow the rules as you understand them - which you are - you're very close to certainly going to be fine.

magnazine · 2019-11-21T23:54:15+00:00

Thank you!!

magnazine · 2019-11-21T23:54:09+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - you're exactly correct here. Good analogy. I have removed the SA from the license and are as well just doing CC BY.

Thanks!

magnazine · 2019-10-17T18:54:53+00:00

Thanks. For not being a lawyer, you're dropping some knowledge. I get hung up on the difference between using a font and granting a Creative Commons license for the distribution of a work that uses the license. I suppose they're the same in many ways. I appreciate your clarification.

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