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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If you want to win at the game of building donor relationships, your communications with donors should invite a response — showing that you welcome their questions, comments, and feedback. Which sounds better? Thank you for your support.” …plus the standard default language. See the hero language? Should they?

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sounds great, right? Fundraising is a game of balance. Spend the time to carefully craft what you want to say, then consistently use that language. Instead, ask people to give to save a dog, tutor a child, or feed a homeless person. This success can be YOURS this year! Asking too much and too often. That’s boring.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

When you are brainstorming, your words might not sound so polished, which is fine. It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We Make the Ask using as specific language as possible. Use bullet points if you need to.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday may sound like a great one-off event for your organization, but you may also be worried about retaining donors in the long run. Here’s what their donation page looked like: Notice how the language on the donation page encourages donors to take advantage of the opportunity to increase their impact!

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

It can be confusing sometimes to determine if the check is from a DAF or a family foundation, as the DAF could have a name that sounds like a family foundation. When you send a thank-you note for a gift received through a DAF, you do not include tax language, as the donor has already received the tax benefit from the bank.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” So everything’s a guesstimate. Is it specific?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. We assumed the digital space was all new. The Sweet Spot. But they aren’t the same.

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