Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

In the donor’s mind, they can’t close the loop on the gift until they receive a receipt. A warm, conversational tone: Your donation receipt, like all your donor communications, should have a casual, personal tone that makes the reader feel like they are having a conversation with you or reading a letter from a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But even when our brains are resting, according to research , our minds are perpetually active internalizing and evaluating information. Some additional ways to cut down on employee’s digital stress beyond a device free zone in the workplace: Encourage good email communications guidelines such as brevity, clear asks, and clear subject lines.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Having 5-10 good questions in mind can help you make sure you get the answers you’re looking for from the meeting. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve talked about responding and communicating well during a crisis on Frogloop before, and I know there’s a lot more to say about this challenge. Sometimes it’s enough for your staff and board to know about the plan, and other times you need to share the plan more widely with your community. Have a Plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

By Abby Jarvise , writer, marketer, and speaker at Neon One – software built for small and midsize nonprofits to help them manage fundraising, communications, events, volunteers, and more. Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Over the next three hours, I absorbed the things my instructor was teaching, but I also found myself reflecting on a bunch of things he wasn't trying to teach at all – unless he's really good at Jedi mind tricks ! It sounded to me like he didn't think the information was important. Next time, say it with feeling. A tri-fold pamphlet!?!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? So I want you to keep that in mind that it’s not too late. If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts. Number 1, if this sounds like you, put a 1 in the chat. I want to hear it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

In terms of how these organizations are communicating with their stakeholders (e.g. 50CAN is an organization that drives the creation of stronger, more equitable schools in every state and community within its national network. Local communities were. the people they serve, boards, donors, etc.),

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

But each tactic is rooted in a single overarching strategy: Writing with your donors in your mind. When you write a fundraising email, start with your donors in mind. Take it from a writer: Appealing to people is easier if you have an idea in your mind of who will read your fundraising email. You’re appealing to people!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

If, through my effort to secure funding for these young minds and the brilliant folks who challenge them to grow both intellectually and in their sense of civic responsibility, then my work has deeper meaning. A: As you can tell, I’m not prone to “sound bites” but there are a few principles that I find important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. Go deeper — use empathy. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. Most of these youth have bigger issues on their minds: addiction, gang violence, social anxiety, the possibility that they may not graduate from high school or get a good job. He answers the question on every teen’s mind: “what do I get if I participate in this program?”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, we may have some communication trouble getting on the same page. The more we teach and judge based on laws, the less students and graduates will try to break them. This may sound reasonable; any life choice is a personal decision. I was an engineer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. Go deeper — use empathy. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With this feedback in mind, the team at IUA set out to develop a new, user-friendly giving and engagement solution. While this feature sounds like a given nowadays, it is this modern, and predictive consumer experience that IUA was lacking before Salesforce.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. They’re able to tell a great story and they’re able to communicate a solution to an obvious need. Take it away my friends.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 30, 2021

A CRM is customer relationship management technology that helps nonprofits, educational institutions, and businesses manage their relationships with current and prospective constituents, students, and customers. Unifying student communications. Who is a CRM for? Don’t let the name fool you! Identifying prospective donors.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Valerie Harris will focus on what is required when you commit to attracting and maintaining major donors, understanding how major donors think, and how to optimize your communications for this important donor segment. Like I said, as the senior director of stewardship and communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

And for evidence linking self-care to a reduction in burnout, see this study on US medical students and this thesis on mental health professionals. Museum professionals tend to be highly educated and museum experience results in a host of transferable skills such as project management, communications, and design.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2021

Oh, that sounds doable. Sounds good. Overseeing both fundraising and marketing for a complex human services organization, I often had program staff coming to me asking the development team to create some sort of communication for them. College students? What else did you have in mind?”. What’s it for? ”. “To

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Greater Giving

JUNE 19, 2023

When infusing story into your case for support, be mindful not to present constituents as powerless or over-center donors as the most important figures. The campaign’s lead donors will be interested in how gifts to this specific project will drive significant, concrete impact, reflected in details like increased student capacity.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We love to bring together communications, marketing, digital strategy, and fundraising all together in a strategic integrated way. And I’ve been able to see other people’s make that shift in their minds, other nonprofits and leaders. What do you sound like out in the world? That’s kind of what we do.

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Results Video Donation Fundraising 83

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

You’ll get bonus points if you also set up slightly different suggested giving amounts and a couple different “billing” options (we hate using “billing” here—it sounds too much like the utility bill example we used earlier—but there really isn’t a better term). Try adding a few billing options to your donation form.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, with a governance model in place, you will ensure that your support agents and technical staff are enabled and guided by the leadership within your university to make the right changes that are approved organization-wide, that comply with regulations, and that are technically sound. What is the communication plan?

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Donor Persona Personas are some of the most valuable tools you can use to dial in communication with your target audience. It was 8 p.m.,

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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. So I want to share an example I love sharing with my students. . How does that sound? So here’s a few I hear often, right? How can we be successful?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. So when you’re engaging them, you’re really highlighting the win-win relationship in all of your communication. And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

All of my students did too, all of my clients did too. So when you’re engaging them, you’re really highlighting the win-win relationship in all of your communication. And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. We feel really inauthentic.

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Raise Map Fundraising Money 73

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

First thing in the morning here for me, I know it’s afternoon for you, but do you mind kind of reading the chat box as we go? That sounds great. . ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. It’s a good group.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. I want to lose 5 pounds.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For those of us that have been taught that setting your pricing through market segmentation is the wave of the future, this sounds like a pretty brilliant idea. For example, students and senior citizens often are willing to pay less than the average patron, and they can be easily identified with an ID or driver’s license. The problem?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I know we were on earlier for our sound check, but I hear a little bit of a buzzing sound. It sounds so impersonal. If there’s any doubt in your mind, I can tell you right now some numbers. Because this is going to affect how we communicate with our donors and when. Margit: Thank you, Steve. I will do that.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 101

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So these are key things you want to keep in mind. Well, a brand is those images, impressions, and ideas or beliefs that are held and formed in a person’s mind. They’re top-of-mind ownership. Student, thank-yous, yes, oh, my god. And I know that sounds expensive. They’re your identity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So just keep that in mind. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?” Steven She’ll talk about email, social media, some digital communications.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Use email to communicate the success and importance of donor support, and give them reason to give again next time. What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

Think through every step of every process with the end in mind. One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? You can download Mandy’s tool here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

They said that it's very hard to communicate to people the gravity of the situation with human trafficking unless you can put numbers around it. BB: In the same video you talked about how a lot of the solutions that you're working to support, the people in the community come up with them and they are the ones implementing them.

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