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All You Need to Know About Fundraising Scripts (Samples Included)

Donorbox

Organizations may hold events and send mail or email appeals to ask for donations, but there will come a time when phone calls or in-person asks are the best […]. The post All You Need to Know About Fundraising Scripts (Samples Included) appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. Unfortunately, it is a reality for nonprofits.

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Example Fundraising Scripts to Use When Asking for Donations

Bloomerang

Making fundraising calls can be nerve-wracking, but it helps to have a plan in the form of a fundraising script. In this guide, we’ll offer some tips and sample scripts you can use when calling donors to request a face-to-face meeting or directly request donations. Why and when to use a script for fundraising.

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Rally More Support for Your Cause: 3 Simple Ways to Add New Event Participants

NetWits

Register for our Event Fundraising Newsletter to receive monthly content and resources specifically for event fundraising professionals. As the busy summer event season continues, eventually your boss or committee will ask, “How can we increase participation next year?” Team captains are the lifeblood of fundraising events.

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Let Volunteers Shine (And Inspire Gifts) On GivingTuesday

Bloomerang

New in her role, with two new staff persons reporting to her and an already-packed end-of-year schedule—including appeals, a holiday catalog, events, and concerts—Melissa felt torn. She asked staff to give 15 minutes of their time to handwrite a card and prepared them with ready-made assets, stationery, stamps, and sample scripts.

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How to Recruit and Activate Volunteers to Help You Raise Money on Facebook this Giving Tuesday

Bloomerang

Offer a couple of suggested scripts they can pick from or modify. For example, if you’re an animal rescue, you could provide a script specifically for donors who have adopted a pet from you. In addition to a script for the fundraiser itself, offer a sample communications plan a volunteer can follow.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

Whether it’s your first fundraising event, or tenth, helping supporters be great peer-to-peer fundraisers is always on the mind of successful event fundraising organizations. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event. 3) Involve. 5) Acknowledge.

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Four Bite-Sized Methods of User Research

sgEngage

With a qualitative research method like this one, you really don’t need a large sample size to get good data. All you need is a basic script of questions you’ll ask and 6-8 participants. Ideally, your participants will represent different constituent groups: donors, volunteers, new registrants, event participants, etc.

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