Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Yet many nonprofit leaders are intimidated by videos and more comfortable with traditional stories and photos to tell your organization’s stories. Some people you have provided services to might want to give back to your organization by appearing in a video. Who benefits from your organization? You won’t know unless you ask.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities. My second blog post in this series will describe how we are growing our Spanish-language program. This is an area of special focus for our Bookshare team. My next two blog posts will be on this topic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

It is not enough to do a quick test run before you present for the first time, especially if you are organizing a set schedule webinar. People are watching our hand movements and our body language. Do this by writing a bullet point script before, covering every point you want to make and add slides to match the main points.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

It may be hard to believe but there is a near future when your organization will likely be hiring a AI Prompt Architect to build custom applications for your staff and stakeholders. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

You can reach out to donors whom you have never met before, and they can feel moved enough to give their money to your organization. They were probably for the amount your organization deems as a major gift. If they are a friend or family member of someone who works with your organization, your research can begin with that person.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. Pretend for a moment that the organization isn’t yours. Here’s the reality: your passion and your vision require MONEY to fulfill. Please give your best gift now.”

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned giving, often called” legacy giving,” is the process by which a donor or prospective contributor produces a financial or estate plan to donate something of value to an organization at a later time. With numbers like this, it may benefit every nonprofit organization to develop or build a planned giving program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. One fun way to organize this in this transitional year (with not everyone ready to join others inside) is via a Zoom call with volunteers. No bandwidth this year to organize this mini-event?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What the Organization Does (22 percent). Provide the following information about the organization and staff. Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). Organization’s Donation Website. Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Organization’s Fax Number.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Thank you’s. Peer to peer. Keep Compliance in Mind Understand U.S.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Thank you’s. Peer to peer. Keep Compliance in Mind Understand U.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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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

The impact of burnout is particularly significant for nonprofit organizations. Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Potential donors love to see the real deal; your organization in action on the ground and the beneficiaries of your services.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A logo is like a film poster—it’s a teaser to spark curiosity so folks will want to learn more about the company or organization. Once a logo has sparked curiosity, it’s important to serve the role of creating familiarity so that over time, people remember and associate your mark with your organization.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Segmented groups can focus on a donor group’s behaviors, interests, networks, involvement in the organization, or other information that is typically not included in a nonprofit’s standard data management system. Psychological segmentation answers the question of why your donors choose to support your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Grassroots organizing. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.”

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A logo is like a film poster—it’s a teaser to spark curiosity so folks will want to learn more about the company or organization. Once a logo has sparked curiosity, it’s important to serve the role of creating familiarity so that over time, people remember and associate your mark with your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A good fundraising ambassador is someone who is bursting with enthusiasm and can’t wait to tell everyone they know how great your organization is. They bring connections and new supporters to your organization. With a little coaching, your fundraising ambassador can even talk about your organization in ways that inspire others to give.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

But how do you get to know someone when all you know is that they gave your organization a bigger-than-average donation in the last year? You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization! Some donors are very open to getting to know the organization they just donated to.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We’ve stood, marched, messaged, and canvassed in your shoes as organizers, advocacy managers, volunteer coordinators, and so much more; and we’ve done this work across 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations as well as labor unions and political campaigns. By increasing the number of organizations on Mobilize.Us

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I had phoned my friend (let’s call her Maya) because I wanted to see how the indie crowd at the Sundance Film Festival would respond to my question: “You know your film is making a difference when…” I first attended Sundance in the late-80s when I was a script reader in Hollywood, and participated during the decade I was at the PBS series POV.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A story should connect to the organization’s value proposition and invite the viewer to join the organization. The story does not end when the on-screen action comes to a conclusion, instead it continues when the viewer joins the organization. It’s also advisable to add captions and annotations to.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Your board is important because it often includes well-connected folks who care about the future of your organization. Volunteers and potential donors are essential because they help to give your committee a perspective from outside the organization and take some of the work off staff shoulders. Case for Support.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Your organization has a well-maintained CRM of all your donors and supporters — but does your CRM know who among your supporters lives in the districts represented by the most undecided legislators? Take another example : your organization is ramping up for a big event. Knowing that would help you cultivate these new connections.

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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. Woven Health Virtual Awards Ceremony.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. If you haven't ever written one, the same origin policy essentially says that client-side languages such as JavaScript are allowed to make requests only within the same domain. Oh, memories.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I’ve seen test participants use salty language (yes, really) and even break into hard sweats (yes, really). I do this by reading a welcome script like the one below which is a modified version of Steve Krug’s. Task #1: First, you want to find out the purpose of the organization. Do you have any final questions?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s that we lack the courage to talk to people who have financial wealth about giving above and beyond and giving their very best gifts to our organization. So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. Do you hear what I’m saying?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

But for a small organization that is currently storing most of its data in excel sheets, and thinks that having 12,000 database records is a lot, Groupsharp could be as great leap forward into the world of collaborative, use-anywhere web apps, for a mere $220 bucks a year. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

By Melissa Russom , a communications strategist who helps nonprofit organizations clarify their brand and message to engage more meaningfully with the people who matter most to them. Follow the lead of organizations like the Austin Public Library who have a sign-up form for those interested in participating. It’s that simple. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

As far as checkout goes, have the items organized in a way so you, your staff, and volunteers can access them quickly directly behind the checkout area. Can you add some language around what to expect if the event is canceled, postponed, or shifted to fully virtual during the registration process or within the commitment form sponsors sign?

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