CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Planning Your Goals. You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. This will be your starting point for building your fundraising goal and budget. You’ll want to build those costs into your goal as well. Don’t be afraid to set an ambitious goal! Planning Fundraising Tiers.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Most of the time, an in-person donation appeal indicates that the individual has the potential to be a major gift donor. They were probably for the amount your organization deems as a major gift. While you’ll definitely talk about your organization, remember that the goal is to get them excited and engaged.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

I like to call first-time donors who made an above-average first-time gift. Research shows only 19% of new donors give again, but if you can get them to make a second gift they’ll renew at a rate of 61% — that’s triple! Also take a look at those who’ve given consistently over a period of years. or “ You did it!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Start with five to eight fundraising ambassadors with a goal of understanding them and how they can best engage in ways that will make them feel great while raising money for your organization. Just asking ambassadors to spread the word and “help us reach our fundraising goal” won’t lead anywhere. and achieve their goals.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization! We are honored that you trusted us with such a significant gift. Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Their goal was to ensure the person coming to sign up for the event followed through. BikeMS organizers arrange kickoff events, meet-ups, cycling safety clinics, social hours, and other non-scripted events that have no agenda other than building the BikeMS culture and helping supporters make personal connections.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Our goal is to expand our shelter so that we can help more women and children who need an emergency place to stay. Did you recognize the five elements in our story?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Learning Goals. To demonstrate how to get started using Google Analytics, navigate filters, and use goal-setting features. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Production Note: I wonder if " Simple Gifts " is in the public domain?).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I’ve seen test participants use salty language (yes, really) and even break into hard sweats (yes, really). I do this by reading a welcome script like the one below which is a modified version of Steve Krug’s. Your goal is to observe without influencing which is the most important and tricky part of running your test.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

My whole goal is to service you. So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. 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.

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know that this is a stressful time for fundraisers who are hoping to hit their ambitious end-of-year goals. Here are five last-minute tips to help you close more end-of-year gifts! . Tip #1: Pick up the phone to solicit gifts. . here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. Especially when working with online donors, your role as a fundraiser is to share what you’re doing and how you’re fulfilling your mission so that donors understand what you’re doing with their gift. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Toolkits. So what is a toolkit?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. I want to make sure my year-end gift is enough.” So they humanized this to something that’s well beyond a goal and a thermometer. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. How have you made me feel for the monetary gifts I’ve made and the non-monetary gifts? How did you make me feel?

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