Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

Practice with your colleagues, practice inviting your friends who have never used Zoom before to understand how they join, practice sharing your screen… you get the idea. People are watching our hand movements and our body language. But virtual events are harder to dip in and out of, and should really stick to the script.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

For a longer video, consider writing a script. Avoid an overly sweet or flowery language or imagery. Scripting: Even if you don’t plan to read from a script, you still should write a script. Just speak directly into the camera and from your heart. Viewers will respond to a clear, honest, authentic narrative.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. ” Speak The Donor’s Language No matter how many times you ask for donations, always act as though your audience or your “askee” doesn’t know much about your nonprofit, especially your internal shorthand.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Even though you’ll be making the ask in person, it’s always a good idea to talk to prospects using different communication channels prior to and after making the ask. Donation Request Script for Recurring Donors.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It’s a good idea to follow strategic best practices , but be true to your own vision, mission, and values rather than copying a competitor’s playbook. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It’s a good idea to follow strategic best practices , but be true to your own vision, mission, and values rather than copying a competitor’s playbook. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Being bogged down with busy work creates an obstacle to collaboration, making it harder to brainstorm the next big idea for a fundraising event, a campaign, or a partnership. They work with marketing, executive leadership, volunteers, accounting, donors, prospects, community leaders, and the board.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and Effective Body Language. Body language can betray you. Asking is part art and part science.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If mapping on the commercial side is seen as the last remaining sustainable differentiator, then that kind of idea should be important for us in the nonprofit sector, too.” “Fortune 1000 companies believe in customer experience mapping as the way to improve and create a sustainable differentiator in a competitive marketplace,” he said.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s also a good idea to consider inflation: depending on the length of time you’ll be setting for your campaign, costs may have risen significantly. But it’s also a good idea to take it one step further and start creating a list of all potential donors. You’ll want to build those costs into your goal as well. Case for Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Last week, I went to the Personal Democracy Forum conference for the first time, and I came away brimming with new ideas for my work. 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 50% conference rule.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Share the ultimate Ask script that has been passed from fundraiser to fundraiser, and then give them the opportunity to learn through role play: “Me” sentence: . If I were working with her as an ambassador, I would look for ways to wrap an Ask in the language of dance so she could talk to her dance friends about donating.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. If you use any or all of those tools instead of or in addition to EveryAction, we hope you’ll use those pathways to let us know what you’d like to see next!)

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Or get ideas for spot-on gifts you can give them later. Not only can you ask questions, but you can read body language which is very hard on the phone. And, who knows, you might find common ground.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A stellar toolkit: to help out their fundraisers, they put together a resource that answered common questions, provided basic fundraising advice, and laid out scripts for fundraisers to use. Colleen also made sure to create a robust template for her fundraisers with boilerplate language and images.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I have too many ideas be sequential. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I have too many ideas be sequential. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

This not only matters when looking for fundraising ideas during COVID, but also in general since there’s always going to be a level of risk associated with any in-person event. Come prepared with visual aids, such as walk route ideas, if needed! It’s best to establish your expectations on the front-end to ensure a smooth event.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From there, you go out, higher a graphic designer (or talk to your internal staff), tell them your idea and they get started. If you know whom you want to consume your infographic, you’re able to tailor the language, imagery, focus, and key points used to appeal to this target audience. I know- I’ve been guilty of it many times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? 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. Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is one of my absolute favorite topics in philanthropy, this idea of engaging board members as fundraising ambassadors. This idea of peer-to-peer gift requests, and this phrase of “join me” is one that I cannot emphasize enough. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. You haven’t brought me any million-dollar ideas.” foreign language 00:48:50].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. Transforming your ideas into words can be difficult and not everyone will read and interpret your writing in the same ways. It’s also a great way to come up with new content ideas that will help reinforce rankings around topics, 11.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2021

Render-blocking resources are scripts, cascading style sheets (CSS), and HTML imports that block or delay the browser from rendering page content to the screen. Any script that doesn’t involve what the viewer will see right away should be deferred until the rest of the page is loaded. Eliminate render-blocking resources.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. From your logo and campaign hashtag, to sample posts and scripts, to printable materials and essential language about your campaign, the toolkit distills all the insights you have as a fundraiser into one easy-to-find resource. So what is a toolkit?

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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. What kind of images and impressions and ideas do they hold about you? What kind of score would donors give you? Eye contact.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” I really want to make sure I get the language right.” Language to call first-time donors besides thank you? This is such a great idea. “Peer-to-peer video idea.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Usability Testing of any sort is a good idea to incorporate into your design process to validate (or invalidate!) Once we identify what questions we want to answer, I’ll fashion a script for a moderated usability test to guide the conversation during the course of the test. the design decisions you’ve made along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve also been looking at ideas from the the Lean Start Up movement, ignited by Eric Ries, author of the Lean Start Up. One of the Lean Startup’s core concepts is build>measure>learn —the process that start ups follow to iterate and learn. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

What’s your body language? So you have to remember, when you are getting online and ready to make these asks, be aware of how your body language and everything that you’re presenting to the screen, how it comes across. And so I’ll do like a script with them. It’s the same idea, the exact same idea.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

For instance, we know Twitter is a great forum to share ideas and consume new content, while Facebook has become the most popular platform for B2C consumers. Our ideas float freely in our minds and the challenge comes when we have to organize those thoughts into ideas that others can comprehend.

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