Readers throughout the nonprofit world are joining our quest to collect your favorite jargon words.
We asked The Chronicle’s followers on the social-networking site Twitter to point out their least-favorite jargon words.
Here is what some of them had to say:
- Impactful
- Sector
- Resources
- Portal
- Constituent
- Philanthropy value proposition
- Advocacy – and I’m a director of it!
Are these the worst phrases or do you have others to contribute?






