The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

By appealing to a wide range of our senses, videos capture our attention and activate our emotions, unlike any other medium. How do you think about sound when you’re creating a video? Sound inspires me. Instead of scripting anything, you spend a day with the organization and you see what you get. I come prepared.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Using these keywords in your automated closed captions is also a great idea and writing video scripts that incorporate the keywords you want to target. Linkedin Including passive or active backlinks to your website through social platforms can be used as a traffic funnel to your nonprofit’s online content.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Listen, starting a nonprofit is NOT a “build it and they will come” activity. Even though it may go against your instincts to ask for money, it’s a must-do activity if you want your nonprofit to grow and thrive. It takes much more than just opening your doors to get donations to come your way. It’s true. Transition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I had phoned my friend (let’s call her Maya) because I wanted to see how the indie crowd at the Sundance Film Festival would respond to my question: “You know your film is making a difference when…” I first attended Sundance in the late-80s when I was a script reader in Hollywood, and participated during the decade I was at the PBS series POV.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

A simple script might sound like this: “ Hey, I heard from our Executive Director that our program would not be successful were it not for you, and I wanted to say thank you.” Thank your volunteers on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, if your volunteers are active on those platforms. You have probably asked them to call donors.

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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. They invited participants to track their minutes of any activity, from running to reading. If that sounds like a lot, that’s because it is.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. This sounds like a trick question, but it speaks to the likelihood that we as fundraisers tend to focus too much on the money and forget to notice other ways the donor might help. The Bottom Line.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Add the total for all the line items for the event (drinks, food, sound equipment, etc) to your net fundraising goal to get a gross dollar amount that needs to be raised from the event. You also may ask a member to hold the event in their home or take an active role in planning the evening. Make Your Follow Up Calls.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

If outsourcing the work sounds like an offer you can’t refuse, take the time to find an agency that offers the exact services and expertise your team needs. Once you’ve applied to the program, you’ll need to set up your account, create your ads, and actively monitor performance. Holistic strategy development.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

While this may sound overwhelming, don’t let it discourage you. While it may sound like the logical thing to do, it will cause issues with search engines. As a result, your content will sound more natural to readers. Just download the plugin and activate it and you’re all set.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sound familiar? Unfortunately, we still have to think about COVID when it comes to all fundraising activities. If you sound stressed, others will follow suit. We discovered that approximately 65% of nonprofits surveyed didn’t have one. Make sure you take the time, before a crisis happens, to prepare your communication plan.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! Volunteer Opportunities. Appreciation Gifts.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! Volunteer Opportunities. Appreciation Gifts.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. They stay focused on high-priority activities and high-value activities, even when those activities push them out of their comfort zone. .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. They stay focused on high-priority activities and high-value activities, even when those activities push them out of their comfort zone. .

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Does this sound like your organization? Separate your data management processes from your fundraising activities. And it requires the development of a central database, as well as multiple data exchange scripts to move data between the CDR and your other systems. The data management plan. Be proactive about data management.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Flip the script from “ Look what you made me do ” to “Look what you did.” The campaign ended with a call for users to share their activism stories , bringing traffic back to the ACLU site. Big Cartel’s 2015 Year-in-Review Email Focus on their accomplishments, not yours Don’t be like Taylor Swift. You saved our health care.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

Most of us connected-types had accounts with a web hosting company, and the thought of setting up a MySQL database, uploading a folder via FTP and running a setup script in a browser was no big deal. Those folks aren’t likely to get a hosting plan just to run Fever. Fever is anything but linear.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

Most of us connected-types had accounts with a web hosting company, and the thought of setting up a MySQL database, uploading a folder via FTP and running a setup script in a browser was no big deal. Those folks aren’t likely to get a hosting plan just to run Fever. Fever is anything but linear.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone? We had about 500 donors, but only active was about 250. . This one is going to sound like, “Oh, Lori, really? Steven: Yes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. In November I want you to set up all of your acknowledgments, your email autoresponder, your thank you cards, your thank you scripts. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Super, you know, active in the nonprofit community, down in Houston. Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. And so I’ll do like a script with them. And speaks all over the place, she’s got a lot of clients. But happy you’re here.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. The other thing to maybe start sounding like a broken record is really to tap your network. You can also tweet us.

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