The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

A second matching grant offer enabled leaders to extend the giving via two more fundraising emails the next day. Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Solid Face-to-face fundraising requires: A true understanding of your donor. Strong and effective body language. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and Effective Body Language. Don’t cross your arms.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help. Fundraising is not about you. Asking for money, can be uncomfortable, right? Let’s look at it another way.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Practical Tips for Donor Engagement Strategies As a fundraiser, you probably have a good feel for how your donors want to engage with you, whether it’s on social media, through email, over the phone, or face-to-face. That tip sounds kind of goofy, doesn’t it? But communicating with your supporters can be intimidating.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers. Q: How does it sound? Some other things to listen for or look for: Repetitive language. Wonky language and jargon. Does this sound or look like a policy briefing? How does it look?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. Body language can betray you.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

” Guest blogger and fundraising consultant Rachel Muir can relate. Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Body language can betray you. Mind your voice inflections, speed of your speech, volume and tone.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It helps to write out the language you’ll use to help your tone and voice be consistent across your messages. Make sure that your emails sound like the rest of your communications. It can help to start from a template so that all you have to do is drag and drop the language and design elements in. Get The Templates.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

But as the world appeared crumbling, and the 45th president was taking to Twitter every 15 seconds, Obama’s voice felt grounding and wise. – Sarah Dunlap, Associate Fundraising Director . – Nicola Leckie, Senior Account Director, Fundraising . It doesn’t hurt that Obama is a damn fine writer.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

She’s an executive fundraising coach. Does that sound good? I’ve been a development director, and I’ve had over 12 years of experience being a fundraiser. You’re like, yeah, I didn’t know fundraising was a full-time thing. If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

Lots of trust involved Adults serve as listeners, observers and sounding boards (i.e. Children understand issues such as fundraising, garden design, or organization and management Children understand how and why compromises are made, if they are necessary. Non-Participation 6.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. A slightly elevated energy level. An exaggerated energy level.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. There’s a new normal. A slightly elevated energy level. An exaggerated energy level.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

By tapping into the plethora of free resources, your team can better prepare for your fundraising campaigns to raise more money and more awareness for your cause. These resources often offer great advice so you can create a first-rate fundraising strategy. Optimized fundraising. Enriched knowledge. Enhanced outreach.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly and the way funders want to work with nonprofits is too. Mallory Erickson will help you start your 2022 off fundraising in the right way. She’s a former fundraiser herself. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” Mallory: Do it.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly and the way funders want to work with nonprofits is too. Mallory Erickson will help you start your 2022 off fundraising in the right way. She’s a former fundraiser herself. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.”

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

It’s as easy as it sounds. Matching your nonprofit’s brand voice (and visual design). Their donation page uses powerful language that matches their brand, includes both the “we” and the “you,” and explains what your gift will accomplish. Mirroring your nonprofit’s brand voice? Action Item #2. Creating a (gentle!)

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. So WhatsApp is available in multiple languages. So you can download the app in any language almost. The second step is talk to people in their language. for a while.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2014

A well-crafted fundraising appeal is the integral piece to your year-end ask. And if you want to really step-up your game, take a look at the new eBook about writing and designing fundraising appeals that work! Make sure to avoid using the passive voice and write to your supporters as if you are having a one-on-one conversation.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

It’s as easy as it sounds. Matching your nonprofit’s brand voice (and visual design). Their donation page uses powerful language that matches their brand, includes both the “we” and the “you,” and explains what your gift will accomplish. Mirroring your nonprofit’s brand voice? Action Item #2. Creating a (gentle!)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

The plan goes beyond the traditional billing buckets of voice, text and data. " Sounds great, right? If you're posting pictures from your latest fundraiser to Instagram on a public Wi-Fi network, you might be exposing more personal data than you realize. Instagram Hijacking Over Public Wi-Fi.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Now, I do understand that some places that are opening up again, and I’m even going to a gala, later this year, a fundraiser. So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. So we’re at voice, vision, and values.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The giving season is kicked off by GivingTuesday, and regardless of whether you’re participating, you should be considering a plan for your big year-end fundraising push. You will need to determine what you want to fundraise for. Week of fundraising deadline: Try to post on social media every day, if not more.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The giving season is kicked off by GivingTuesday , and regardless of whether you’re participating, you should be considering a plan for your big year-end fundraising push. You will need to determine what you want to fundraise for. Week of fundraising deadline: Try to post on social media every day, if not more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

I think that we need to look at the root causes for why people wind up in exploitative situations, no matter what they are, and to say that someone who is a victim of labor exploitation and trafficking deserves equal voice with someone who has had a different experience. Are there other tools? What are other ways to prevent it?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

You have to know who you’re talking to, and you have to speak their language, and you have to gain their trust. Now, the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report found that 25% of donors said that social media is a communication tool that inspires them to give and that 32% of them donated through Facebook fundraising tools.

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