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

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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’s a great idea to prepare an outline to follow, or a script to rehearse, so that you’ll be confident, clear, and determined!

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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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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

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Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

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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. Say something like “ Today, in this season of giving, we are extending a special thanks to our donors who give regularly to our organization, stepping up time and time again for homeless families.”.

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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. The whole speech is 12 minutes, and if you want some tips about reaching millenials I’d advise watching the whole thing [quick tip: animals and homelessness].

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How To Create Explainer Videos That Donors Will Love

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For that, you can use meaningful animation, unexpected script turns ( narrative ), and adequate characterization. It’s not the same thing to bring awareness to climate change as to be working to provide shelter for the homeless. They teem with creativity: Or at least should, when done right! You can say the same about audiences.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

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Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. … Be open and clear about why this matters.