Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. Here are two different examples for the same fundraising Ask. Studies show that fundraising campaigns with regular updates can raise up to 138% more funds than those without updates! Setting: This is where your story happens.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. I think about that sometimes when I’m coaching other writers at M+R.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Also craft a new thank-you letter as part of any campaign or special fundraiser. This is really important if you know the donor because it shows them you’re paying attention and noticed their donation. Use my Kitchen Table Exercise to develop your conversational writing voice. The point here is to prioritize thanking donors.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

The good news is, you’re a fundraising professional and if anyone can pull it off, it’s you! Mapping out a fundraising event, especially while taking COVID into consideration, can feel like a game of psychological chess between yourself and the world. This exercise is a great way to develop your checklist.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

You envy the people who actually seem to glide through their fundraising with the greatest of ease, never breaking a sweat or popping an Alka Seltzer when it comes to asking for money. Very few people are innately talented fundraisers. That is the whole point of fundraising, right, to ask? Featured Fundraising'

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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. In fact, you might not know this, but USC has 750 paid fundraisers. So let’s do a little exercise here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Now, I do understand that some places that are opening up again, and I’m even going to a gala, later this year, a fundraiser. Because, being a introvert, used to be, okay, I think a little bit is still in there, being an introvert, it was hard when I started fundraising earlier in my career. And this is probably.

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