sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading. A logo doesn’t need to carry the burden of communicating everything and telling the whole story.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and Effective Body Language. Body language can betray you. Be physically accessible.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. Q: What are you doing to invest in accessibility as you grow and scale?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. Stand or sit tall.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. Stand or sit tall.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Creating a video with impact requires developing a story concept and turning it into a script. One expert tip offered by Samala is to share your story concept in conversation and note where your listener reacts before committing to a script. Captions make video accessible to the hearing impaired or those who speak different languages.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Wealth screening is the process of buying access to data about your current donors or potential donors. You’ll want to craft some specific language for your board early on to let them know what their role is and how they can help. One great way to find major donors is through wealth screening sites. Case for Support.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Most CRMs, like Salesforce , Microsoft Dynamics and Salsa , have APIs to access and edit your contact records. Donor management systems like DonorPerfect also provide APIs for saving pledges and donations and accessing donor information. Eventbrite and TicketLeap have APIs for managing your events and attendees.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If you haven't ever written one, the same origin policy essentially says that client-side languages such as JavaScript are allowed to make requests only within the same domain. The tech jargon (sorry, I tried): with the Winter release, Convio's Open API will support the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. Oh, memories.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A stellar toolkit: to help out their fundraisers, they put together a resource that answered common questions, provided basic fundraising advice, and laid out scripts for fundraisers to use. Colleen also made sure to create a robust template for her fundraisers with boilerplate language and images.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you know whom you want to consume your infographic, you’re able to tailor the language, imagery, focus, and key points used to appeal to this target audience. Do you want people to easily access it on their iPhone? 2) Know Your Audience. Knowing your audience is critical. Should it work well on a tablet? One that sticks.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you decide to move forward, consider keeping some components virtually accessible in order to engage individuals who are uncomfortable attending or who, quite frankly, shouldn’t attend due to underlying health issues or other unique circumstances. Have “runners” to help you with this. Will they be refunded?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They provide access to potential avenues of new support. So people who have access to potential new supporters, potential leaders who can continue to multiply the community that you’re a part of. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? They can help with follow-up.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Adobe Story Free is a free online service from Adobe.com that you can use to create your script and help with screenwriting. " The film script format looks to be the simplest template to use. Once in the script you can then write in your script language. You can choose from a range of standard script types.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. Web crawlers scan the internet indexing websites and following any linked resources it has access to. This means all of your fancy scripts that add to functionality or design are removed in order to display content FAST.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. Let’s sit down and talk about a script. Those board members agree to pick up the phone and call and say, “Thank you.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

To validate that users are able to access key content or complete tasks within your new website structure. Once we identify what questions we want to answer, I’ll fashion a script for a moderated usability test to guide the conversation during the course of the test. Methodology. Where would someone look to register for an event?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. SamaUSA helps low-income learn the skills necessary to gain access to online jobs.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

What’s your body language? So you have to remember, when you are getting online and ready to make these asks, be aware of how your body language and everything that you’re presenting to the screen, how it comes across. And so I’ll do like a script with them. Great questions, you guys. The power of pause.

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