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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

Create a standardized script. Include matching gifts in call scripts. Integrate your fundraising and matching gift tools. To illustrate our point, take a look at two possible phonathon script introductions: Phonathon Script Introduction #1: “I’m calling on behalf of University X to raise money for our annual phonathon campaign.

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[Pre-Register Now]: How to Build A Successful Major Donor Program For Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

Plus, as a special bonus item, you’ll receive Joe Garecht’s exclusive Asking Scripts Guide. About The Instructor: Interested in registering or looking for more info? This is a platform-agnostic course, so you can use your existing fundraising and marketing tools. Bonus Item! Can’t make the live class?

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Google Analytics is also free. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How: 6 Tools and Tips. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery. My own experience as a learner and teacher is that social tools deepen the learning. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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How to Succeed in the First Year of Fundraising for Startup Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

You can use Quickbooks, Wave, or a similar tool, but get something. If you get an account with TechSoup , you can probably get a discount on your accounting tool (and other things, too!). Work with one of the popular tools like Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress to create a basic, clean website. Lay the groundwork for your programs.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. See [link] ) Check your new IT staff or contractors out very well. How smart are my phones?

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.) at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike.