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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

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When I focus on donors, it’s a matter of which program they want to support. Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? It certainly did for me. Use ADJECTIVES! Transition.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

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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. It’s easy to gobble up all the time allotted for the conversation just talking about the organization’s latest programs and outcomes. Otherwise, it’s just a fun meeting.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

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Your emailed welcome kit could contain a link to a video giving a quick virtual tour of your programs or a personal welcome from you. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started. As can a drawing from a child in your program.

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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

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Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But, wait – before you go recruiting your most outspoken supporters to shout about you in their Instagram stories, make sure you know these 7 keys to an effective social media ambassador program: . 7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program. Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. When I look at the program, I feel like I get about 50% of it and the rest is deliciously outside my area of expertise. That’s how I ended up at PdF. Conferences Guest Post'

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

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But if not, I’m talking about actually volunteering at a program event, taking off that board member hat and actually doing some hands-on stuff with the clients. And then the role of the staff is to be able to answer some of those program, direct questions that they may have or anything like that.

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