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. Some other things to listen for or look for: Repetitive language.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Who would have thought a simple meal could change a family’s life? Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Your nonprofit is simply the conduit to allow people to change lives. Your donation of $7.32

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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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. Share This Post!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Implementing those solutions, however, requires the charitable sector to change in fundamental ways, Specifically, we will need to have more: Humility to recognize that systems and processes like duplicative and onerous grant applications and reporting forms are structural impediments for nonprofits. Research funding. and Catherine T.

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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. Share This Post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. Grassroots organizing. Poverty Reduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I wanted to change the world with that film. But even though the critics liked it, and people saw it, I had no proof that anything changed. As a lifelong believer in the power of story — and other creative work – to advance social change, these days I’m spending a lot of time trying to prove it.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Why this matters Meaningful change starts with engaging and growing your community. 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. Here’s a look! Engage your community. A: We hear you.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Share the ultimate Ask script that has been passed from fundraiser to fundraiser, and then give them the opportunity to learn through role play: “Me” sentence: . If I were working with her as an ambassador, I would look for ways to wrap an Ask in the language of dance so she could talk to her dance friends about donating.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools.

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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. Not only can you ask questions, but you can read body language which is very hard on the phone. After all, they want the exact same thing you do: to change lives! Phone or In Person?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

With an API and a little programming code, you can exchange data between systems, automatically update data to reflect changes somewhere else, have an action in one system trigger other actions in another system, or take advantage of advanced resources or infrastructure without having to build that functionality yourself.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. Momentary discomfort is worth the life change that, that gift will create, isn’t it? But what matters more is you want to inspire people to make a difference, right, to make life change possible.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

What "support" means exactly varies from browser to browser of course, but the point remains — with the advent of HTML5 the internet is fundamentally changing all around us, giving non-profits new and exciting ways to engage constituents online. Practically every browser other than that one released ten years ago now supports HTML5.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language.

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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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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Other things to think about include cancellation policies, last minute venue or date changes, and what their deposit policy is like. Think through what changes you’ll need to make to keep everyone safe. Tell them everything, especially if you have to make changes. Especially if the plan has to change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. He also points us to books, languages, and application frameworks - like this survey of five new "rails"-like application frameworks for php.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I’ve seen test participants use salty language (yes, really) and even break into hard sweats (yes, really). I do this by reading a welcome script like the one below which is a modified version of Steve Krug’s. When the participant begins working through the tasks, your role in the testing changes greatly.

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : . Editor’s note : You can find a call script here for thanking a donor after they make a donation and another one for soliciting year-end gifts here. Tip #3: Test your donor’s journey and make the necessary changes to ensure it’s as smooth as possible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2021

Render-blocking resources are scripts, cascading style sheets (CSS), and HTML imports that block or delay the browser from rendering page content to the screen. Any script that doesn’t involve what the viewer will see right away should be deferred until the rest of the page is loaded. Eliminate render-blocking resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

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. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation. We changed it to that’s $40 a month, that’s $10 a week. We’re not going to change that. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. So let’s just put it on the table. I know a number of you do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. I also keep fairly good track of the languages of visitors of our site. We have an extensive volunteer language program trying to translate the site into as many languages as possible.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They can share their own personal story for why they’re involved in your organization, how their involvement has perhaps changed their life or their perspectives, and how we can really leverage their stories to help generate momentum and energy around the work that you’re doing. We also want people who have a unique perspective.

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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. The program saves your changes automatically.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. This means all of your fancy scripts that add to functionality or design are removed in order to display content FAST. But times have changed and search engines are constantly working to improve results for users.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With your support, we are fighting for health for kids, for equity, for change, for all of us. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. .

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

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. As I work on the usability test script, it usually becomes clear to me what additional pages I should be prepared to show as part of my prototype.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we are going to think of this as the communication pivot, the changes in your messaging in 2021 and beyond. And the last one, on the column on the left, your messaging was focused on shifting into services and operational changes. The lives you have changed. So the question, “How do I communicate our cause in 2021?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

We were able to find out how quickly someone understood the idea, whether a certain feature made sense, and figure out which elements needed to change.” They also learn professional and language skills in order to enable them to find meaningful employment. IDEO.org). Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, Back to the Roots (Co-Founders).

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

So much so that I wrote about it 3 years ago on LinkedIn : Looking back, I was quick to jump to conclusions of how marketing has changed. However, despite this shift in audience platform preferences the strategic marketing process itself hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years. Video Recording: Most mobile devices work well.

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