Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your development director leads your fundraising team, which includes your major gifts activities. Identification factors Generally, donors with a history of giving, high engagement with your organization , and a high generosity score (capacity for donating) will be the best major gift candidates. Development director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Have a story, example, or tip to share?

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this guide, we’ll review five game-changing strategies you can use to activate your marketing potential and bring in more supporters, let’s begin! Look into your audience’s giving history, previous event attendance, in-kind donation support, or online engagement with your cause to understand how to best reach them.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

If you saw an ad, and later read an email, you’d know it was the same, just from the language. On the website, a similar story — we doubled our revenue. The results: in 2023 we ran half the number of email appeals, but raised more than DOUBLE the revenue from email — just from refining the messaging and brand graphics!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Organization’s Founding Date/History. Activating our values in 2022. Organization’s Contact Information. Organization’s Donation Website. Organization’s Fax Number.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Showing impact numbers and, more importantly, stories keep donors informed and engaged. Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2022

Collect data about your current donors and potential donors including information like their age, backgrounds, wealth indicators, giving histories, and motivators. Engage your donors by sharing resources, articles, and stories with them. Once you’ve exhausted your personal networks, start conducting prospect research.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Give each persona a name and story Assign each donor persona a name and create a brief narrative that describes their background, motivations, and relationship with your organization. Common segmentation criteria for nonprofits include such as age, location, interests, communication preferences and donation history.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Science has an answer. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Communicating stories and opportunities to engage in ways that deepen your relationship with your supporters is a critical strategy for any mid-level donor program, and digital can support that. First, your active mid-level donors, who you want to retain and upgrade. But the immediate story is in the overall program performance.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Are you sharing heartwarming stories that stir their heart and soul, moving them to donate? Was the story you told in this email powerful enough? Did the story have a strong accompanying photo or video? Let’s take a look: Do you start with a compelling story that conveys the urgency of your organization’s work?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Here's a brief description of the elements to include in your case statement: Mission + History.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Instead, we wanted a collection of leaders, highly networked in different parts of our County, with their fingers on the pulses of significant community issues and activities.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

In the past year, virtual fundraising activities have skyrocketed due to social distancing guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual fundraising is no longer an optional activity for nonprofits— it’s a necessity! Switch Up Your Fundraising Language. Send Donors A Fun At-home Activity. 25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

He shares a story. He creates a visual representation of his story. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Some of the stories were quickies, but others were powerful and personal. A man walks into a museum.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Believe it or not, the latter is a major part of the story. The story goes that company co-founder, Jay Love, was attending a fundraising conference and caught a session by Adrian Sargeant. Q: What is one of your success stories? What does the name Bloomerang conjure in your mind? Cable network? We really take care of our folks.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

We shared our stories (we cried together) and we talked about the possibility of change, real change in the fight to beat cancer. We’ve seen community engagement activities started from posted questions and Ambassadors appreciate the news updates on all things cancer. We finally kicked them out at 7.30 that night.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Get creative.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They tell histories of white male conquest. Three quick lenses on Whiteness and privilege in museums: Whiteness is in the language we use to describe the objects that we show and the programs we produce. Just last month, there was the story of the low-income family kicked out of a Paris museum for being "too smelly."

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Candid

MAY 29, 2024

Over the last few years, the language of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has gone mainstream. Imagine a librarian who has separate bookshelves dedicated to art history, women’s history, Latin American studies, and LGBTQ icons. As a DEI researcher, I both welcome and worry about this change.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. They aren''t intended to force fit our work to aspirational language; instead, they are intended to make transparent that which is existing but ephemeral.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. The morning ritual is a chance for all to reflect on the organization’s results and be inspired.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

For over 20 years, EveryAction has provided technology to support nonprofits working to make the world a better place, and we’re honoring that history through our product roadmap and commitments. Activate supporters with Mobilize. Marginalized populations can successfully advocate for their rights and work toward a more just society.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

This isn’t an entirely passive process: A nonprofit that has an active donor acquisition strategy (more on that below) will be working to identify and target potential donors with information. Engagement This is the stage where a potential donor begins actively reaching out to your organization looking to get involved.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Staff members led us in reframing our language to talk about the museum as transforming from a “traditional model to a 21 st century model” instead of failing and then succeeding.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". will essentially be a set of APIs and a new markup language that will allow third party developers to create applications that run within MySpace. The new developer platform.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. And so I'd like to share some of the story of how we have fought for inclusion, what it changed about our work, and some tips on how to fight. If not, please share a comment and let's talk online.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

Pull techniques invite visitors to actively retrieve content of interest, rather than consuming content "pushed" indiscriminately by the museum. Pull" techniques don't just allow multiplicity of content; they also emphasize the visitors' active role in seeking out information. smoke and heat).

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That push means crafting year-end giving letters that build a palpable connection to your organization’s mission and activate a donor’s urge to give. But segments don’t just have to refer to giving history. A Compelling Story Every fundraising appeal is a story. Here are some pro tips for telling a compelling story.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It can tell a story! When you collect information about your donors—including elements like their demographics, their background, and their history with your organization, you can use that information in all kinds of ways. How do you know what stories, images, and language to use in your upcoming campaign?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. That's a more complicated question. It's pretty simple.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

It is downright scary going to a country where none of us speak the language. The pictures below reveal even more of this wonderful story. She implanted a love of France, history and what true friendships are all about. Well, that is not a problem if you know Simone, who speaks fluent French!

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