NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

A recent survey of six national nonprofits found multi-year team captains raise two to three times more than new team captains and retain about 86 percent of their prior year’s revenue. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Supporters raise significant amounts of money and bring new donors to your organization. million raised annually since 2004 by helping participants become fundraisers. 50 gift card for $5,000 raised). Not only do teams raise more money for your organization, they add camaraderie and competition to fundraising.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

The leadership team wanted to identify ways to improve the event, expand registrations, raise more money, and turn loyal supporters into sustaining and major donors. Deliver a post-event wrap-up with photos and statistics, including total dollars raised and number of attendees. Team Diabetes knew its P2P endurance event was flatlining.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s also the number one reason you’re raising less money than you could. There were two instances this year where I made gifts over and above what I had intended and they both involved personal contact from someone in the development office (director or gifts officer). Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

By focusing a little extra energy on your mid-level donors, you can raise more money and create a quality pipeline for your major gifts officers. Your mid-level giving manager should be the primary point of contact for these donors. Email signatures should encourage donors to reach out to the point of contact.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Sort them according to dollar range so you can prioritize contacts with the largest donations. Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. You can learn how to make this call by grabbing my free Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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. Capitalize on the power of email marketing to recruit individuals or teams to raise money for your organization and to stay in touch with these supporters throughout the campaign. Peer to peer.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

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.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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. Capitalize on the power of email marketing to recruit individuals or teams to raise money for your organization and to stay in touch with these supporters throughout the campaign. Peer to peer.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These messages can include thank yous for their participation, new supporter onboarding messages, reminders to complete a task such as contacting their representative before a specific deadline, and more. . Script-branching. Message templates. Real-time reporting. Event management software.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Nonprofit fundraising events are a great way to raise money and increase your organization’s profile at the same time. If members of your host committee have held fundraisers in the past, ask what previous events have been able to raise. You should look at how past fundraisers of a similar nature have done. Track your RSVPs.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Dan Campbell from Raising Paddles takes a look at how you can communicate better with your donors by understanding their motives in “The ‘Why’ of Giving” with Raising Paddles. This occurs the moment they come into contact with your nonprofit, whether through a direct mail campaign, an event, or something else.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Someone once told me they were reluctant to contact monthly donors and remind them of their recurring gift. 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. With more supporters, you’ll raise more money. This has NOT been my experience.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Break eye contact with them and you’ve instantly broken that connection. Avoid eye contact and you give the impression of being untrustworthy.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Supporters can raise significant amounts of money and bring new donors to your organization. It’s crucial that you encourage your supporters to use social media to raise awareness for their fundraising efforts. 50 gift card for $5,000 raised). Tell them how to approach their business contacts. Hold contests.

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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. In years past, their annual Duradash fundraiser raised about $5000. It was incredibly easy to set up a fundraiser or make a donation.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

You only need five pages to start: home, about, programs, donate, contact. You know your contacts, so you know which approach will be most likely to work: Face-to-face meeting: This is the best way to ask. Invite your contact for coffee, tell them about your organization, and invite them to get involved by making a donation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It is not too late to raise major gifts this year. And that made the biggest difference for me in going from struggling and feeling insecure, honestly, right, and fearful of talking to major donors to raising a million a year from individuals to up to 2.5 So, Steven, I think people are raising their hands. Here we go.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. We are here to talk about “How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation, and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money.” Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Keeping staff motivated and raising the big dollars with special events can be an expensive and staff-intensive endeavor that is growing more difficult to sustain in our world’s diminished economy. Create scripts and make the asks. What’s more is that it doesn’t really matter whether it is a high-end gala or a walk.

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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. Raise awareness of critical, life-saving COVID-19 measures. Virtual solutions.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 29, 2016

Several years later she had raised over 10 million dollars and was featured on Oprah, CNN, and the Today show. Give them a sample thank-you script, background on the donor, details on their gift and a few discovery questions they can ask to learn more about them. Invite 10 of Their Key Contacts to a Private Tour of the Organization.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2016

Create a Script. As you develop the script, make sure you: Do introduce yourself, your role, and one or two sentences about your organization. Contact the Funder. Don’t go off script! Your goal is to raise funds, so keep that goal in sight. What are the most common mistakes in the proposals they receive?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

From choosing your project to the day before launch, we’ll walk you through every step so you jump into your campaign confident and ready to raise some funds. As a quick recap, a capital campaign is a targeted fundraising effort that aims to raise large amounts of funds for a specific project or purpose. Planning Your Goals.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. We are here to talk about “How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation, and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money.” Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We know the ultimate goal of any nonprofit fundraiser is to raise as much money for the mission as possible. Consider a brief, pre-event meeting to discuss your expectations with the catering staff and make sure they know how and when to contact you (and security) should the need arise. Future you will be happy you did.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. It will take time to script, record, and edit the audio, engage with listeners, and collaborate with contributors. Best Practices and Maintenance.

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The good news is that there’s still time to tap into this season of generosity and raise more funds than ever before ! . here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : . Does the acknowledgement email contain a person’s name and phone number to contact if I have any questions?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

That means if you spent most of your time on the top 12% of your donors, you will raise more money and in less time than dinking around with little nickel-and-dime fundraisers. Just think: you could work less and raise more! Others may have grown to the point where they’ve raised their minimum major gift size to $5,000 or $10,000.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. They appointed two board members to our board of directors and have done so for the last 10 years and each of those members have to raise $5,000 each. They have helped us in marketing.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth has worked on tons of campaigns for her clients, billion dollars raised. Next is, we always hope that our board members are some of our most generous stakeholders, they’re personally philanthropic, they’re setting an example and helping to raise your communities’ sights. And she’s an awesome person.

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Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

And if I go past 1,000 contacts in my system, I’m gonna be bumped up to $150 a month. Being able to report to the board that you raised this amount from your online fundraising campaign, with this amount coming from the in-person fundraiser that was tied into it—that’s huge. And that’s just not in our budget.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

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 keep in consistent contact with your recurring donors, always showing them their impact on the mission at hand.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

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 keep in consistent contact with your recurring donors, always showing them their impact on the mission at hand.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Subscribe to all of her stuff over at FundJoy LLC, she’s helped a lot of people raise a lot of money over the years. Okay, I know Lauren [Kotling 00:04:29] raised her hand. in the beginning, it was very, very difficult for me to, number one, raise money. And so I’ll do like a script with them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. They call me their lifesaver because when they first met me, they were raising $23,000 a year from individuals. We were raising $5 million for a capital campaign. They’d never raised money before. .

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