Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. Assume in your tone and language your donor simply has forgotten or has just not got around to it due to the busyness of daily life.

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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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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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email Communication Effective Fundraising 68

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Teach good programming practice and provide general programming and tech support (everything beyond basic IT stuff) to the rest of the team, who are experts in statistics and social science with varying degrees of techiness. Interest or experience with unicode, unusual character encodings, and handling non-latin character sets.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice. 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.

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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. Some other things to listen for or look for: Repetitive language.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Strong and effective body language. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The best way to practice an ask is to videotape yourself performing a mock ask. Strong and Effective Body Language.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Organizational Budgeting, Revenue Practices, and Forecasts (20 percent). Data analysis on the forms was conducted by data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson, a PhD student specializing in human interaction with artificial intelligence (HAII) and natural language understanding (NLU) at the University of Michigan's School of Information.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The best way to practice an ask is to videotape yourself performing a mock ask. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact!

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. The best way to practice an ask is to videotape yourself performing a mock ask. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact!

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

It’s a common practice for commercial enterprises. BikeMS organizers arrange kickoff events, meet-ups, cycling safety clinics, social hours, and other non-scripted events that have no agenda other than building the BikeMS culture and helping supporters make personal connections. Build unique partnerships that amplify the lifestyle.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Provide opportunities to practice and role play. Gather your class of fundraising ambassadors to practice making Asks. 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: . But, I wouldn’t assume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches. It can help apply improv to our work in social change by practicing what it means to have a networked mindset.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Besides books, whitehat (good hackers) and blackhat (bad hackers) are tapping into news websites, movie scripts, song lyrics, and social networking sites to pull potential passphrases. " How'd he crack such a crazy phrase? solutions page.'

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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. This isn’t just a helpful thing to do—it’s the right thing to do.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

The easiest place to start is with the practical question of how much your project is going to cost. You’ll want to craft some specific language for your board early on to let them know what their role is and how they can help. This will help you build your budget and create a solid marketing strategy. Making a Budget for Your Plan.

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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. Beyond personalizing the event type for their audience, MDLT also used some best practices in the way they ran their peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Practically every browser other than that one released ten years ago now supports HTML5. 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. If not, well. The time has come. Oh, memories.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll cover things to consider when evaluating the safety of your event, share some resources, and provide best practices on how to develop your plan. Have signs to encourage social distancing and best hygiene practices, ample hand sanitizer in all high-traffic areas, and extra masks available at check-in, for example.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Part one discussed why to usability test , part two outlined crafting your test , and part three gave best practices for recruiting participants. I’ve seen test participants use salty language (yes, really) and even break into hard sweats (yes, really). Today, we gear up for your big test day! It’s test day… what now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website.

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Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

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. This is very, very practical. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. foreign language 00:48:50]. This script will help you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. Four is considering the level of depth of our DEI practices and challenging ourselves to engage in deeper, more meaningful ways.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. But that’s a practical thing that I know that works. Are you practicing? Let’s sit down and talk about a script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. " Nonprofits and Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? It’s not your script. A slightly elevated energy level. An exaggerated energy level. Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? It’s not your script. A slightly elevated energy level. An exaggerated energy level. Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Finally, you need to make sure you’re practicing one of the most important rules of not just video marketing, but marketing in general: consistency and continuity. Pay close attention to the language and the tone of voice you choose to use in your script and make sure it aligns with your copy elsewhere. CONSISTENCY IS KING.

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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. And, of course, we’re going to be quite practical. But you really want to script it, you just don’t want to have some.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

1000+ chats with scripted dialogues and empathetic language. However, human monitoring and auditing remain in place to ensure responsible and ethical practices, and gauge ongoing performance and improvements needed. Responder monitors chatbot, handles support, and takes over when needed. Continuous human monitoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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