The donation experience might start with a publicly facing portal, but it is still a very personal process.
You donors are - potentially - giving their hard earned money to a cause they care about to bring about goals that may well be quite close to their heart. Thus, these issues need to be handled not just with sensitivity and concern, but with personability.
Everything should be available in a way that makes the most possible sense to your website’s readers.
That’s why we at Everfund are very happy to be able to say
Mae ein gwasanaethau bellach ar gael yn Gymraeg
Our services are now available in Welsh
Everfund’s donation platforms will now have the option to include the Welsh language as either the default, or something that can be switched to, should a prospective donor click the apt button (possibly decorated in green and white, emblazoned with a red dragon).
All the apt text will then be translated into Cymraeg/Welsh, allowing the clearest possible understanding to those who using your services west of the Severn, in the Pategonian heartlands, or anywhere else where words sometimes called “the language of heaven” are spoken.
How will the translation work?
Much of the translation work that’s done on the internet happens distantly and through software that is embedded into the browser. These systems will scan the words, search distant databases, and find their replacement. This can be a fiddly and inaccurate process, as swapping words for words by a system that does not understand their meaning creates the kinds of hallucinatory inaccuracies that AI and it’s ilk are often known for.
This is not the way Welsh translation will work for Everfund’s donation portals.
Instead, should you wish for a Welsh language option, the portal’s software will contain the carefully translated options, ready to go. The switch of the button does an automatic string replacement process.
These strings, and what they replace and say, are manually pre-crafted. This means that they can be edited and overseen by your nonprofit’s staff to ensure that the Welsh language output matches what you would expect. Very valuable, given that there are several different dialects of Welsh, all of which - while mutually understandable, can vary enough to be worth noting to our staff - who will be more than happy to help you adjust the exact content, tone, and style of the translation’s output.
At Evefund, we believe in manually managing the things that matter most. Translating your language right is the kind of service that can’t be left to the robots.
Amazing facts about the Welsh language
Welsh is spoken by approximately 650,000 people around the world.
The language has had a lot of different names throughout history, including “Cambrian” or “Cambric”, “Cymric” and even curiously “British” which was the word used to describe the language in a 1662 law on the subject of common prayers throughout England and Wales.
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of those live in Wales itself, where the language is spoken by 17.8% of the population.
In England, there are an estimated 110,000 Welsh speakers. That’s comparable number to the population of Maidstone in Kent, or the combined populations of Scarborough and Welwyn Garden City.
The next largest body of Welsh speakers is found in Argentina, where there is estimated to be 1,500 to 5,000 Welsh speakers living in the region of Pategonia in towns that began life thanks to the flooding of the river Camwy.
The language is now an instituted part of the nation of Wales. Even more so since the formation of the Senedd Cymru, or the Welsh Parliament in 1999. It is the first language of all road signs in Wales, and is a key component of the national education curriculum all throughout Wales.
Everfund’s custom built donation portals
At Everfund, we understand that donation to nonprofits is as important as it is intimate. Getting your communication with your donor base right is not just of optimized calls-to-action or effectively encouraging adverts. It’s about a close connection on the basis of causes, compassion, concern, and compulsion to take charge towards a common goal.
That’s why we take every detail of your donation portal process seriously. Whether you want your web vistors to click “donate now” or “rhoddwch yn awr”, Everfund is here to help.
If there is another language you need your donation system to be available in, our development team is ready and available to build you that option. We at Everfund are fully fluent in both compassion and reliability.
