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6 Ways to Prepare Your Communications for Successful End-of-Year Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hint: they should!) Prioritize audience analysis both when thinking about fundraising tactics and also in fundraising language as well. Just because a campaign is already live doesn’t mean you can’t iterate and adjust language along the way. How can you reframe your nonprofit’s stories and communications for equity and impact?

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Deepen the Donor Relationship by Focusing on the Donor Journey

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They need to feel like a part of your team and believe they are key in helping you impact more lives. Your thank-you message should be more specific to your mission and be more impact-focused. Thank you for your support.” …plus the standard default language. See the hero language? Which sounds better? Should they?

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What Should You Say to Get People to Donate

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5 Powerful Words That Strengthen Your Ask There’s been a lot of research done about particular words and how they impact action. Gregory Ciotti wrote about the 5 most persuasive words in the English language and how “certain power words hold more sway over our decision making process than others.” think about why it matters to them.

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AI and Nonprofits: Will Bots Make Transition from Functional to Friendship?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, the average chatbot’s language skills have advanced enough that they can do all kinds of things beyond answers to basic questions. Perhaps you can meet the expectations of this trend by incorporating just a hint of personality, fun, or playfulness like the Anne Frank House bot.

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8 Hints for the Non-Photographer

Connection Cafe

There's no better way to show your organization's impact than through a compelling photograph. Walt Disney said it best “Of all of our inventions for mass. communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). 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.

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How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

CauseVox

There are a few helpful hints that can get you started: Look at the donors you have and identify the largest donation you believe any of them will give. Focus on their impact and show that impact through stories. It should help highlight the impact of the project, and connect that impact to personal stories.