EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Engage your community. 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!

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Build your campaign around the concept of letting the community create the content. These tools can be simple, such as examples of fundraising emails, social media posts, phone scripts and even official logos. For instance, ever get swept up in the Facebook videos that automatically play as you scroll through your feed page?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

Community Engagement. Start planning for community engagement activities, such as small, in-person events, virtual events, or crowdfunding campaigns. Consider email, handwritten notes, and phone calls. You can build your email templates and draft your call scripts now so that you can thank donors in a timely manner.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). Where contact information is requested, provide (if applicable) Name, Title, Address, Email Address, Phone Number. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent). Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent).

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you don’t have their phone numbers, send an email letting them know you would like to call them and ask if they’d be willing to share their phone number and the best time to reach them. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

You simply point your phone's camera at text and have it immediately translated into your native language. It tends to choke on cursive and other fancy scripts and it will not work with handwriting. Tech Tools to Benefit the Spanish-Language Community. I'd say it works quite well about 80% of the time.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

You don't even have to go to a store to buy a camera, you can just shoot film on your phone. Instead of scripting anything, you spend a day with the organization and you see what you get. Grassroots movements have been doing it because they didn't have the resources to script. Now, anybody can do it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books. The first is developing strong local partners , such as disability NGOs, libraries or educational institutions that help us customize our services to the specific needs of their communities.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations. Inability to check in on vulnerable community members. HUMAN SERVICES.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

A strong donor segmentation is much more than just breaking up your donor list into the basic demographic groups that define your community by age, location, or gender. When donors become part of your community, they typically move through five phases of involvement, landing on the one that best suits their level of commitment.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Plus, they’re probably your best ambassadors in the community, spreading the good word about the work you’re doing. Volunteers who feel valued will talk about your nonprofit in the community as if they’re part of the team and speak up about why your cause is important. They tend to the community garden because they love to garden.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whether your ambassador communicates with their friends and family via phone, text, email, or social media is up to them. 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: . Share photos, videos, and status reports!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I cried after my first big film was released,” she admitted, in hushed tones over the phone. In other words, when it comes to measuring the impact of arts and culture, we may be surprised by how much funders, creatives, advocates, and communities have in common. This was no traditional case of post-partum blues.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Not only do they allow you to land big donors in person, they also provide a chance to make an impression on important members of your community, enabling you to grow your brand along with your dollars. Event donors are most eager to give when they can come together with their community. Send Reminders.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

may have extra time on their hands and can participate in making phone calls to steward and check in on your loyal donors. You see a sample phone script for this call here. Second, at many organizations, there may be underutilized staff due to stay-at-home directives in many states. can get involved.”

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

If they have indicated they prefer to be contacted by phone rather than email, make sure you call them. You’re looking for folks who: Are recognized and connected within the community Have experience in the nonprofit sphere Will work hard and contribute over the long haul Are not afraid to ask for a donation.

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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. They might not get breaking news alerts on their phone.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many companies like Twilio and Tropo offer APIs to integrate phone call and text message features into your web applications. To go the extra mile, you could even combine APIs like Twilio or Tropo with the elected officials’ phone numbers from the Cicero API for phone banking and other types of call-in advocacy campaigns.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

For that, you can use meaningful animation, unexpected script turns ( narrative ), and adequate characterization. Monitor social media: Growing social media communities and maintaining them is an essential piece of a robust online presence, and nonprofits aren’t exempt! They are adaptable: Explainers work in a lot of areas.

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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. If it’s too late for that, and you have too many donors that you need to contact, then you can call them on the phone. You can send them voice memos, if you have their cell phone.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Create an online community for your fundraisers to interact and share their ideas. Provide samples of everything. Don’t let your fundraisers get stuck on something you could have easily provided.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2016

Look to vendors and businesses that you – or your community – use on a regular basis. Create a Script. As you develop the script, make sure you: Do introduce yourself, your role, and one or two sentences about your organization. Don’t go off script! What are the most common mistakes in the proposals they receive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ".

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve. Next, it’ll allow us to cultivate trust and confidence with the communities that we serve. Okay, so positive trend.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

scripting and editing videos and short films. For mobile users to their site, they tested a "remind me later" function instead of letting people pay or donate on their phone. The test was a fail: only 3% of people who clicked 'remind me later' on their phones actually went through with payment. Email Matters.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Storymakers Community Events. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. SF Online Community Meetup.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2011

Give each board member a handful of phone numbers to call and a thank you script if you like. I prefer the phone call approach. Create a mission moment : invite your donor to come tour your facility, visit your program or attend your event to personally see in person how their gift is making an impact in the community.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

Consider this: We humans yearn to belong.When we give, we demonstrate that we’re joining a community of like-minded folks who share our values. Phone Calls. If you want to deliver your thank you promptly, the phone can be your very best friend. You’ve got to come from a place of thinking about love, not money.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

To host remote guests, use a SkypeOut connection to call a phone line and Pamela or HotRecorder to record the audio. Search for directories that have strong communities with constituents that match the type of person you who would listen to your podcast. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Create an online community for your fundraisers to interact and share their ideas. Provide samples of everything. Don’t let your fundraisers get stuck on something you could have easily helped with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. We did a Halloween event where we served thousands of community kids. And they saw the need of the community of those families that could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. What specifically in your community do you want people to do? Even during the pandemic, Tyler was out in the different communities around the world, and very carefully. That’s the place to put them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Follow Up Phone Call. 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. Be sure to communicate this progress clearly and consistently to your recurring donors. .

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Follow Up Phone Call. 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. Be sure to communicate this progress clearly and consistently to your recurring donors. .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In their role as Community Engagement Manager at AuSM, Zephyr used clear communication, robust toolkits, and strong marketing strategies to create successful fundraisers. AuSM serves Minnesotans, throughout their lives, with a fundamental commitment to advocacy, education, support, collaboration, and community building.

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