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JARGON
FINDER
To help you
keep your writing and speaking free of
jargon, we are pleased to present Jargon
finder - an online collection of
foundation and nonprofit jargon.
To see a definition and discussion of
any of the words listed below, click on
the section heading (e.g. "B" for
"-based). All examples are excerpted
from Tony Proscio's three book-length
essays on jargon that were originally
published by
The Edna
McConnell Clark Foundation:
In Other Words,
Bad Words for Good,
and
When Words Fail.
(To download pdf versions of the full
books, click the names of the individual
titles.)
The Communications Network thanks the
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation for its
permission to feature these words on our
site.
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A
Accountability
Action
Action Plan
Analysis
Assist
Assistance
At-Risk
B
-Based
Benchmarking
Best Practices
Branding
Buy-In
C
Capacity
Challenges / Challenged
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Community
Community Development
Comprehensive
Conceptualize
Continuum
Convener / Convening
Consensus / Consensus Building
Crafted (see Structured)
D
Disincent
Dive/Drill Down
Diversity
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E
Empowerment
Engagement
Entity
Environment
Extrapolate
Entrepreneur
F
Funding
G
Grassroots/
Grasstops
I
Impact
Incent / Incentivize
Inclusiveness
Infrastructure
Initiative
Intensive
L
Learnings
Leverage
Linkage
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M
Maximize
Mechanisms
Metrics
Modality O
Operationalize
Outreach to/
On the same page
Ownership
P
Paradigm
Parameter
Perimeter see
Parameter
Partnership/
to Partner
Persons
Planful
Proactive
Provide
R
Ramp Up
Receive
Resources/
Resourced
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S
Scale
Sector
Setting
Signage
Site
Social
Space
Stakeholders
Strategy
Structure
Structured
Supports
Sustainable
Synergy
Systems
T
Targeting
Technical Assistance
Throughput
Tools
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U
Utilize
V
Value Added
Value Proposition
Venture
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