sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 70

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters. Ready to Get Started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

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. A few years ago, I started looking for meetings where I felt I knew much less about the content. But they could be. I have some fishermen to check with first.

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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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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

As we move forward in creating a cohesive Bonterra software ecosystem, our top priority remains the same: putting your unique needs front and center by delivering the critical functionality and problem solving you’ve come to expect from us.

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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. This is a safe question, and it can tell you a lot about how the donor perceives the work your organization does and the root problems in your cause area. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview.

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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. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Only problem…you’re not totally sure how to plan a capital campaign. 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. Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! Don’t despair.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

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. With CORS , a somewhat new-ish spec from the W3C, the internet finally figured out a solution to this age-old problem. Oh, memories.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Syntax checking in all three languages. With an integrated debugger, Aptana will leave pure script debugging tools like SplineTech in the dust. I found three problems in my CSS by simply openning the style sheet in Aptana. Support for user-developed macros ("actions" they call them) written in JavaScript to manipulate your code.

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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. When you first greet your participants, your first task is to just make them feel safe and comfortable.

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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. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget? What problem does a widget solve?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

For example, if you want to build a list all authors of all books with a publication date of 2000, you could reference them with a string like /book[@date="2000"]/author But here you run into browser problems - the Mozilla family and IE implement Xpath in entirely different ways. IE has a much more straightforward take on it.

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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. You need to get honest with yourself because we’re going to solve the problem here. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

What follows is a very rough draft for a script. You'll face that problem with any tool you ultimatley use. Laura Quinn, in her recent article on TechSoup, notes: Because the Google Analytics package is in an indefinite beta stage, some of the experts we consulted with cited occasional problems. Act 1: Analytics This!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you have to leave early, no problem. ” 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. Let’s sit down and talk about a script. So look for an email from me later on with those.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Video marketing, in particular, can be a great way to educate your audience about the problems your organization is working to solve. 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. and further that ever-important mission.

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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? Wasn’t that a powerful language? It’s no problem.

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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. Great questions, you guys. The power of pause.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s just one problem… You have about 8-seconds to grab and retain a visitor’s attention before they leave your site. Acknowledging A Problem. Now all you need is to convert your blog post into a script and you’ll be ready to post your new video in no time! Offer Promise Of A Solution.

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