sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Joe, join our new Art Lovers Speakers Series.”) Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. 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. Ask a question. (“How Personalize it. (“Joe,

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Joe, join our new Art Lovers Speakers Series.”) Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. The major gift classification created these unintended consequences of certain people feeling like they were the uber-in group and other people feeling like they were the less-than outgroup,” she said.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

Beginning with one client and one horse in a backyard, this organization has grown to a 10+ acre state-of-the-art therapy facility in Santa Clarita. While most organizations tend to focus on peak giving months (spring, year-end, GivingTuesday, etc), Carousel Ranch flipped the script by hosting their peer to peer fundraiser in February.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Asking is part art and part science. The cultivation step is truly king and if you need tools on how to get there, check out my post on cultivation steps to courting a 6 figure gift. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Fundraising Major Gifts Planned Giving Sustained Giving'

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Asking is part art and part science. The cultivation step is truly king and if you need tools on how to get there, check out my post on cultivation steps to courting a 6 figure gift. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From day one I vividly understood that most people rank asking someone they know, face-to-face, for a nonprofit gift on par with a root canal or a colorectal exam. Even business and community leaders who are virtually fearless in everything else they face in their personal, professional, and civic lives are terrified of asking for gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace. The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

It’s tempting to think that designers should instinctively know when a design works, but let’s not confuse design with art. Inspectlet seemed too whiz-bang good to be true, but with a small embed script you can record and playback anyone using your website. Is my design effective? How can I make it better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Zen and the Art of Web Analytics. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Production Note: I wonder if " Simple Gifts " is in the public domain?). Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This! Act 1: Analytics This!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

If your fundraising plan doesn’t include a strategy for finding, cultivating, and asking major donors for a large donation, you’re missing out on some big gifts for your small nonprofit. Larger gifts equal more net revenue which means you can do more good. So, let’s get you some major gifts, okay? They don’t know who to ask.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Donors want and expect their gifts to result in positive impact. Simply put, use the art of visual storytelling to show them how their money funds specific initiatives and all the outcomes that lead to achieving the desired goals of those initiatives. Jude and donate after seeing this example of data-driven storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. So another client of mine, Upstream Arts, they provide programming in the Minneapolis schools, the Milwaukee School District, and I think they’re going to a couple other states now. I want to make sure my year-end gift is enough.” Your gift has been received.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

This month we’re covering building a major gifts program, but we’re going to be digging right into end-of-year through September as well as October through, you’re creating your campaigns, copywriting, how to ask, and everything in between. Maybe we segment our major gift donors. . I want you to write that.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. How have you made me feel for the monetary gifts I’ve made and the non-monetary gifts? How did you make me feel?

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