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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

These people are demonstrating that they believe in your mission and programming through their consistent support and loyalty to your organization. . With that in mind, use storytelling techniques to draw them in, show them how they can be part of the solution, and ask them to donate. . So how do you keep track of them?

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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We started our research with the hypothesis that sellers who demonstrated leadership behaviors more often would create an "awesome connecting experience" for the buyer. The exceptions would be places where sellers are required, for example, to stick to a script that doesn't allow for natural conversation.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“Improvisation demonstrates that you can have order without control” - @robpoynton , Do Improvise. ” He offered a simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build. He also talked about the Improviser Mindset VS Scripted Mindset of leaders. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

While many of these new apps are the inevitable "me too" calendar and wiki pages, a few of them, like GroupSharp , which hit her list just the other day, are beginning to demonstrate usable and flexible business functionality, the kind of thing a small non-profit might really gain from. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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The GRANTS Writing Formula To Secure Awards For Project Grants

Bloomerang

A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language. While this would be a great article to submit to a newspaper, script for a video at a fundraiser, etc., Step #5) T – Timeline the activities Your T imeline Work Plan of Activities will clearly demonstrate how you will execute your objectives.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. Demonstrating that you have values in common will assure them that they can trust what you are saying. Eileen Smith of Spokesmith, on empathy: “A great way to demonstrate you have values in common is through storytelling. It’s not your script. Well, that depends.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Then do an "online demonstration" as performance art. I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked swtiching between my "scripted" remarks and incorporating people's questions in the chat line. Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?"