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How to generate advocacy calls from your supporters to elected officials

EveryAction

If your bill is in committee, start with the committee members and leadership. Decide who you want to call You might already have a good idea of who you want to target with these advocacy calls, but if you’re still trying to narrow down your options, asking a few questions can be helpful in clarifying and prioritizing your targets.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. So 82% of chief executives say that racial diversity is important to their external leadership. You have your board member host, you hear from your executive leadership.

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How to Convert Peer-to-Peer Event Participants into Monthly Donors

sgEngage

The leadership team wanted to identify ways to improve the event, expand registrations, raise more money, and turn loyal supporters into sustaining and major donors. Create a leadership circle to honor those who raise more than $25,000. Team Diabetes knew its P2P endurance event was flatlining. They turned to donor journey mapping.

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

sgEngage

They work with marketing, executive leadership, volunteers, accounting, donors, prospects, community leaders, and the board. 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.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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10 Soft Skills to Nail the Ask

BoardAssist

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 can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. fundraising'

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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?…