Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

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. Identify potential foundation and business funders. . Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Giving USA 2021 , produced by Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , reports total giving grew 5.1% Giving by foundations jumped 17% (15.6% Foundations grew 2% (0.8% You can find a sample script here. Giving 2020 facts that may surprise you. adjusted for inflation).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

A recent post on the Ford Foundation blog, “ Why you should care about bots if you care about social justice ,” notes automation itself isn’t cutting edge, but the prevalence and sophistication of the how the automated tools interact with users is. The Whisky Bot , while not a nonprofit focus, it is a good example of a more elaborate bot.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Feeding America National Organization relies on individual, corporate, and foundation support. When a gift comes in, the team member receives the donor’s details and a script to guide the conversation. Founder John van Hengel developed the concept of food banking when he was a soup kitchen volunteer.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When you’re looking to launch a new outcomes-centered strategy , start with these three steps and sample scripts to ensure you’re heading in the right direction. . Here’s your sample script for Step 1 : . Here’s your sample script for Step 2: . Here’s your sample script for Step 3: . Don’t go in blind.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading. 4 Foundational Tips for a Sure-Fire Fundraising Strategy in 2022. A logo doesn’t need to carry the burden of communicating everything and telling the whole story. The goal of a logo is to spark an emotion.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Many of you are aware of the giant force of good that is the Foundation Center. Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. George Ford has been with the Foundation Center since March 2004.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

I hosted a webinar that digs into the approaches and tools that Forum One thinks any modern nonprofit, association, foundation or government agency should be looking at in order to manage their data. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 29, 2017

If you have a team available, split up the list by personnel and work as a group to create phone scripts and email content. Then, set a schedule for when you’ll be contacting individuals (like major and mid-level donors, foundations and corporations) to thank them for past gifts and prime them for this year’s giving season.

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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. The Spinal CSF Leak Foundation is a relatively young nonprofit that was still finding its legs when COVID hit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

posted by Sheryl Keeme , Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Create scripts and make the asks. Today, she is proud to lead the Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an organization new to Annual Funds. Like this article? Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

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. Kate Wing, Program Officer at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. A few years ago, I started looking for meetings where I felt I knew much less about the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I had phoned my friend (let’s call her Maya) because I wanted to see how the indie crowd at the Sundance Film Festival would respond to my question: “You know your film is making a difference when…” I first attended Sundance in the late-80s when I was a script reader in Hollywood, and participated during the decade I was at the PBS series POV.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Gavin Claubaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Effective IT management is more about wetware than it is about hardware and software: it's all about managing the intersection of technology and these rather strange things called people. Now, it's your turn to respond: what would you do?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2018

Admittedly, I am fortunate to have a hospital CEO who is intimately involved in the work of our healthcare foundation. At a VIP night for our Heart & Vascular Institute, our CEO scrapped his script about awards and technology. I would be shocked if your CEO hasn’t had a loved one affected by a health event.

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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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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. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS. Virtual solutions. Improve first line of defense safety net programs to protect people during COVID-19. In-person volunteers are disappearing for key activities (e.g., Urgent issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I designed this exercise after a delightful experience visiting the Barnes Foundation Museum where the art work is hung on the wall in a way to facilitate pattern recognition and learning about art concepts. Defining Roles. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2018

Ensure that your telefund callers have a script for verifying and asking for employer information and reminding alums and donors alike of the possibility of matching gifts; input or import matching data into phonathon software. For example, Sierra Health Foundation offers board members a 3:1 matching gift benefit up to $45,000.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The tempo of the dialogue, which can be scripted, interview format, or even visual dialogue is another element that establishes the rhythm. Many of the copy cats incorporated the same motion graphics style, but few managed to achieve this level of emotional connection.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

Work up a simple script and practice it. You can script out what you want to say and it’s easy to refer to your script, because you can have it right in front of you! Share your script, your email, and your letter and encourage them to adapt your messages for their own voice. Make your story concise and powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. You can capture and narrate in snap.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Once you have laid the foundation for what you’re hoping to achieve together, then you need to tell your ambassadors exactly how they can help you get there. . Are you expecting them to share stories related to your organization’s brand and use a set hashtag, like how the Bob Woodruff Foundation does it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

On a private plane, I didn’t know banks own private planes, but they flew me on a private plane to talk to the Mabee Foundation in Oklahoma and we got $250,000 gift from there. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. Let’s sit down and talk about a script. Things like that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. I'm pleased to announce that the second screencast is now available.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2021

At Legacy Health , I have engineered solutions for our foundations to all of these problems (and more) using online donation forms. Legacy Health has multiple sites and foundations with hundreds of funds between them. Trying to increase donor gifts based on past giving? . Increase giving with personalized ask arrays. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

TIP: Learn: (1) Who to call; (2) Who should make the call; (3) When to call; (4) How to call; (5) What to say, and (6) Next steps by heading over to Clairification and grabbing my free “ Donor Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.” TIP: Ask donors for their phone numbers on your response devices and donation pages, and use them!

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

The Foundations of Your Strategy. The Foundations of Your Donor Appreciation Strategy. 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. Navigation: . Ideas for New Donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

The Foundations of Your Strategy. The Foundations of Your Donor Appreciation Strategy. 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. Navigation: . Ideas for New Donors.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Creating strategies around these four pillars work to establish the foundation of your marketing plan. This means all of your fancy scripts that add to functionality or design are removed in order to display content FAST. Over the years these terms have evolved to fit the adoption of new marketing channels.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Make sure the software is more than new paint and carpet (aka features) covering up old, crumbling foundations. Look for not just a list of new features, but substantial shifts in core product lines, server architecture, and fundamental rebuilds that demonstrate the firm’s focus on deep level upgrades. Service Assumptions or Guarantees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2015

After publishing this post about Save the Children’s Crowd Funding Campaign – where I mentioned the Dalai Lama Foundation’s successful campaign , I noticed this tweet in my stream from Brian Rusch the former deputy director for the DLF : Woohoo! Brian Rusch (@alohalife) March 25, 2015.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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? It’s one place where you provide all the information your fundraisers might need.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

I’d love to see some conditional logic in a later version of Visual Workflow so I can script something like “If email address is entered, match that otherwise match first/last name.” I can only match against first & last name because that’s all that’s required. ” For now, this will do.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Major donor strategy should be a foundational piece of your fundraising plan. . Let’s start by taking a look at some surprising benefits of working on your major donor fundraising strategy. Why Focus on Major Donors? The biggest reason to work on major donors is because the return on investment is so high. Here’s why: 1.

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