In my last post, I had a rant about jargon in charity communications.

This was after an evening of reading appalling non-profit comms copy. And I promised a list of every single weak or jargonish word or phrase I found. Here it is below.

Arranged alphabetically, these are taken from the charity newsletters and direct mail of 11 different organisations.

May I implore you to cast these out forever more from your copy. Your donors will enjoy reading your mail more. Truly.

1. Access (education, training, clean water)
2. Accessible
3. Address
4. Awareness raising
5. Brighter future
6. Capacity
7. Capacity building
8. Change attitudes
9. Community development
10. Community groups
11. Connecting communities
12. Consolidation
13. Deliver (services, training)
14. Development
15. Dignity
16. Disadvantaged
17. Diversity
18. Due diligence
19. Economic opportunities
20. Economic enhancement
21. Empowering
22. Enable
23. Engage
24. Facilitate
25. Food security
26. Holistic
27. Implement
28. Inclusion
29. Initiatives
30. Innovation
31. Integrated
32. Life-changing
33. Life-transforming
34. Lift out of poverty
35. Local community integration
36. Marginalised
37. Mobilise
38. Participate
39. Partnership
40. Practices
41. Productivity
42. Provide facilities
43. Quality services or programs
44. Resilience
45. Resources
46. Social inclusion
47. Solutions
48. Stakeholders
49. Sustainable
50. Transformation
51. Vulnerable