Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Qualitative Staff Characteristics (project-related experience, shared backgrounds, executive biographies, etc.). You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. Miscellaneous (3 percent). Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

Grant 111

Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned Giving Is Accessible to All Planned giving flips the script on the traditional donation structure because it does not disrupt a supporter’s current cash flow. Nonprofit organizations should be fostering relationships with their planned donors to not only remain in their estate plans but also to identify future fundraising projections.

Giving 52

Giving Blackbaud Gift Policy 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This is the easiest way forward as you will have an immediate template for your grant project. Additionally, make sure to read through the FOA/RFP/NOFA and include: A response to how your project aligns with the funding sources’ priorities. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project.

Grant 93

Grant Award Project Proposal 93

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.

email 74

email Communication Effective Fundraising 74

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.

email 67

email Communication Effective Fundraising 67

Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

Action 137

Action Strategy Donor Calendar 137

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

From choosing your project to the day before launch, we’ll walk you through every step so you jump into your campaign confident and ready to raise some funds. As a quick recap, a capital campaign is a targeted fundraising effort that aims to raise large amounts of funds for a specific project or purpose. Planning Your Goals.

Campaign 68

Campaign Build Pledge Phase 68

Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. 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. Body language can betray you. Asking is part art and part science.

Skills 41

Skills Language Fundraising Script 41

Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether it’s sending out an ask, an update on a project, or a thank you letter, a nonprofit’s message isn’t effective unless it reaches the right donor at the right time. Creating messages that are geared toward them can vary greatly in language, graphics, images, and all other elements. Their Role Within Your Organization.

Communication 80

Communication Donor Strategy Phase 80

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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.

Skills 54

Skills Language Fundraising Script 54

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.

Skills 40

Skills Language Dallas Texas 40

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. If you use any or all of those tools instead of or in addition to EveryAction, we hope you’ll use those pathways to let us know what you’d like to see next!)

Script 190

Script Product Mobile Phone 190

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 recently happened to one of my clients – they were trying to decide which project to ask the donor to fund and the donor said “Here’s $15,000 – use it wherever you need it most.” Awesome, right?).

Relationship 126

Relationship Question Donor Build 126

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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: . We’re raising money for [program or project and why it matters]. . Gather your class of fundraising ambassadors to practice making Asks. You” sentence: .

Activities 126

Activities Active Activism Fundraising 126

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. Also, there’s mild profanity.

Reflection 92

Reflection Personal PDF Conference 92

NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools.

San Francisco 36

San Francisco Open Source Open AJAX 36

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Joining the chat were experts behind some memorable nonprofit videos Christina Samala , Director of Online Strategy & Media for The Story of Stuff Project ; Kirthi Nath , Media Producer and Filmmaker at Cinemagical Media ; and Mike Bonifer , co-founder and CEO of GameChangers, LLC. Share Your Concept with Stakeholders.

Storytelling 40

Storytelling Impact Create Effective 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) It is also cross platform.

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) It is also cross platform.

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Aptana is an integrated development environment for HTML/CSS/JavaScript projects, built on the Eclipse desktop. Syntax checking in all three languages. With an integrated debugger, Aptana will leave pure script debugging tools like SplineTech in the dust. Aptana is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Script 40

Script Open Source Library Language 40

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

AJAX 40

AJAX Script Widget Wiki 40

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. But as I've mentioned, I've been doing a good bit of coding these last couple weeks, updating an old web app we did for one of our clients.

AJAX 40

AJAX Script Library Technique 40

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. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic.

Widget 61

Widget Screencast Wikipedia Headline 61

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

By now you probably know data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) shows the average nonprofit in the U.S. Most organizations simply put cursory thank you language there, and may even use canned language from their email service or CRM provider. Begin by making donor retention a priority.

Donor 82

Donor Nonprofit Mail Gift 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like).

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Facebook Wiki 50

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And as we all know as fundraisers, one of our main goals is to ensure 100% board participation in both annual and capital fundraising projects. And it was positioned as a special opportunity to hear from the CEO on his vision and a unique capital project. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template?

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Adobe Story Free is a free online service from Adobe.com that you can use to create your script and help with screenwriting. Click on "Projects," then click on "New." " The film script format looks to be the simplest template to use. Once in the script you can then write in your script language.

Adobe 57

Adobe Story Free Script 57

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. Accelerated mobile pages or AMP, is a project developed to deliver fast mobile content. This means all of your fancy scripts that add to functionality or design are removed in order to display content FAST. With search engine optimization.

Beginner 91

Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The approach you choose for your project will depend on your timeline, budget and available resources. Once we identify what questions we want to answer, I’ll fashion a script for a moderated usability test to guide the conversation during the course of the test. Where would someone look to register for an event?

Test 33

Test Design Process Web 33

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. Don just asked a donor, what type of projects they would be interested in. Steven: Love it. Here’s a good one from Don.

Money 96

Money Personal Relationship Raise 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

When the IDEO team was working on a new financial tool for a project in Mexico, they used Lean Startup’s focus on Customer Development to test it with real potential customers. Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

Impact 122

Impact Method San Francisco Social 122

Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Well, your excitement about your projects and programs, they resonate with the donor. 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.

Virtual 114

Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 114

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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! But the English language is complex and basic word processing tools don’t understand the use of passive voice or complex sentence structures. Video Recording: Most mobile devices work well.

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Process Content Digital Marketing 98