Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

For those of you on a different fiscal year, skip down to “Cleaning up your Prospect Database” and save this checklist for whenever the time is right for you. and let them know they’ve still got time to renew (or fulfill) and make a difference this year. 8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Even though you’ll be making the ask in person, it’s always a good idea to talk to prospects using different communication channels prior to and after making the ask. Donation Request Script for Recurring Donors.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice. Look at her eyes.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If I am building a community, maybe my community needs/wants/desires something different.” When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. 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.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If I am building a community, maybe my community needs/wants/desires something different.” When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. 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.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Typically, planned giving is a legal process coordinated between a lawyer and a nonprofit, as these gifts are taxed differently than a standard donation. Planned Giving Is Accessible to All Planned giving flips the script on the traditional donation structure because it does not disrupt a supporter’s current cash flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The bot is programmed to encourage fans who message the page to sign up for different actions. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. Climate Reality is using a bot on its Facebook Brand Page.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Us the data to personalize the ask by emphasizing different aspects of your mission and programs, and highlight outcomes that is important to your chosen donor group. Creating messages that are geared toward them can vary greatly in language, graphics, images, and all other elements. Their Role Within Your Organization.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. Research funding.

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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.

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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.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters. Ready to Get Started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

“You Know Your Film is Making a Difference When…” Guest Post by Ellen Schneider. Maya couldn’t have known if her film had made a difference because there wasn’t a solid strategy in place to connect the story strategically to the movement she was hoping to serve. the conversation will likely become purposeful: What can be achieved?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

How will their gift make a difference? You’ll want to craft some specific language for your board early on to let them know what their role is and how they can help. Start by brainstorming different ways you can recognize donors. If they historically have given to youth-oriented causes, connect your pitch to youth.

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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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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. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Phone or In Person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

” He offered a simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build. He also talked about the Improviser Mindset VS Scripted Mindset of leaders. Scripted mindsets expect everything to be perfect in theory, on paper, and in the real world – and when it isn’t they don’t know how to lead.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Creating a video with impact requires developing a story concept and turning it into a script. One expert tip offered by Samala is to share your story concept in conversation and note where your listener reacts before committing to a script. Captions make video accessible to the hearing impaired or those who speak different languages.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They made the decision to pivot to a different kind of event: an online brunch fundraiser based on the peer-to-peer model called A Toast to AuSM – and it’s one of our top crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. No one has to click through to three or four different sites to find what they’re looking for.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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 we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Or you might start to use different vocabulary that might not translate easily for the key words and concepts that reviewers need to have to score points in certain sections of your grant submission. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

For example, if you want to build a list all authors of all books with a publication date of 2000, you could reference them with a string like /book[@date="2000"]/author But here you run into browser problems - the Mozilla family and IE implement Xpath in entirely different ways. IE has a much more straightforward take on it.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. I predict websites will, and already have begun to, serve different versions of their site entirely, dependent on how the user is viewing the page. The search landscape today is dramatically different from how it was 10 years ago. link] amp /.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Your in-person fundraising event may need to look different due to COVID. Can you add some language around what to expect if the event is canceled, postponed, or shifted to fully virtual during the registration process or within the commitment form sponsors sign? Will they be refunded? Check-in with any security staff.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

You need a thoughtful written plan with a cycle of communications that: Engage donors without an ask , Express authentic gratitude , and Show donors how they made a difference. Most organizations simply put cursory thank you language there, and may even use canned language from their email service or CRM provider.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And they fell in love with the different events and they signed up for it every year because they liked getting to know the clients and they liked getting to have those interactions. So know that when you are talking and having this conversation with them, they’re already telling themselves a different. I know a number of you do.

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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. Does the thank you landing page contain donor-centric thank you language?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. This is the number of site visits by different users. Act 1: Analytics This! Unique Visitors.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. From your logo and campaign hashtag, to sample posts and scripts, to printable materials and essential language about your campaign, the toolkit distills all the insights you have as a fundraiser into one easy-to-find resource. So what is a toolkit?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But what are the professional opportunities that we can offer our board so that they feel prepared with the language and the skills and the tools to be successful? Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? We had wine, it was actually fun and I think it built people’s confidence. Stewardship.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’ve used Bloomerang in different gigs. Even during the pandemic, Tyler was out in the different communities around the world, and very carefully. So there are different pictures that happen. . When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. We want to make a difference. And that means our image and our brand is making a difference. There’s 1.5 But get this.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You’ll need to help your audience understand what makes your organization different and what makes your cause worthy. Pay close attention to the language and the tone of voice you choose to use in your script and make sure it aligns with your copy elsewhere. It is important that people have empathy for your cause.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

With any design, there is some guess-work involved on the part of the designer so getting a reaction from an end-user may reveal some different options for your design. 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.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

It makes a huge difference. You may had to shift some of your services to new initiatives, to keep going, to serve your clients in a different way that they may have not needed before. A program that they gave to, within your organization, they may want to do something different. They may want to give to something different.

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