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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? It’s a great idea to prepare an outline to follow, or a script to rehearse, so that you’ll be confident, clear, and determined!

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You might get a nice surprise from a rich discussion session, or the release of a new study, but for the most part you can predict >80% of the content. Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I’m not saying you skip the tactical discussions, just don’t jump right there as step #1. Provide your social media ambassadors with your brand and messaging standards – not as a document attached to an email – but as a discussion of how and why your organization communicates the way it does.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked swtiching between my "scripted" remarks and incorporating people's questions in the chat line. I could have done some things better with Webinar instructional practice.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? ” You’re going to review the annual, you know, commitment form and have that discussion because you have to remember that board members are busy. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. What does it look like?”

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10 Things to Know When Moving To A More ?Capable Software Platform

VisionLink

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. I created a script of conversation starters/questions about crowd sourcing and using social media for program delivery. Then I reviewed each slide deck and created a compilation (see above) and developed the final script.