Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Social media interaction. Check out these scripts for requesting donations from first-time donors and from recurring donors: Donation Request Script for First-Time Donors. Letters and cards.

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Personal Donation Tips Script 105

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. ” Speak The Donor’s Language No matter how many times you ask for donations, always act as though your audience or your “askee” doesn’t know much about your nonprofit, especially your internal shorthand.

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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 67

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. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow. The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation.

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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.

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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. Planned Giving Benefits Planned giving programs provide increased opportunities for existing and potential donors and encourage long-term growth.

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Giving Blackbaud Gift Policy 52

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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Guidelines Audience Language Content 90

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.). 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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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

It delivers information on the donor’s outward-facing identity, such as their cultural, economic, social, and lifestyle traits. Creating messages that are geared toward them can vary greatly in language, graphics, images, and all other elements. Sociological segmentation focuses on who you are addressing. Engagement Level.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Kids who are eating regular, nutritious meals are performing better in school, are engaging in more social activities, and making more friends. 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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Storytelling Fund Raise Music 139

Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. If you design modular furniture, a logo featuring Victorian script and flowers is going to be misleading. Innovating for Dramatically More Scale and Social Impact. The goal of a logo is to spark an emotion. Recent Posts.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

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. What politicians do they support?)

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Think about Board members, employees, volunteers, donors, and social media followers who can serve as ambassadors. Whether your ambassador communicates with their friends and family via phone, text, email, or social media is up to them. Maybe you could create some social graphics with dogs in tutus? But, I wouldn’t assume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. As a lifelong believer in the power of story — and other creative work – to advance social change, these days I’m spending a lot of time trying to prove it. This was no traditional case of post-partum blues.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2022, we shared that EveryAction joined other leading social good technology companies CyberGrants, Network for Good, Social Solutions, and their respective entities to become Bonterra. Our purpose is to power those who power social impact, and we came together for a reason: to better meet the needs of our customers—the doers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

This is where companies turn to people with large social media followings and niche credibility to advertise their product, paying as much as $1 million per post from Kylie Jenner. These are your social media ambassadors. . Social media aims to connect people with people. 7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. It’s generally a good idea to create a specific campaign announcement for the public phase: that could include social media, website, emails, or press releases. Case for Support.

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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. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0

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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?

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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.

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Reflection Personal PDF Conference 92

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. Every fundraiser received a digital award that was highlighted on social and personalized for them. The ease of the platform is everything.

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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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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.)

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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.)

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Save the fancy, “scripty” font for other printed materials or social media. Limiting attendance to allow folks to social distance in smaller venues is another tactic to consider. As I referenced above, signage is extremely important. Ensure your main areas are designated with large, clear font. The silver lining?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you know whom you want to consume your infographic, you’re able to tailor the language, imagery, focus, and key points used to appeal to this target audience. Once you know what the data is telling you and the audience you want to reach, you can start to script out the story you want to tell. 2) Know Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

TIP: Learn: (1) Who to call; (2) Who should make the call; (3) When to call; (4) How to call; (5) What to say, and (6) Next steps by heading over to Clairification and grabbing my free “ Donor Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.” Social Media This is a great way to keep gratitude flowing throughout the year, and it’s relatively inexpensive.

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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. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2021

Render-blocking resources are scripts, cascading style sheets (CSS), and HTML imports that block or delay the browser from rendering page content to the screen. Any script that doesn’t involve what the viewer will see right away should be deferred until the rest of the page is loaded. Eliminate render-blocking resources.

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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. Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. Social Media Measurement. I also keep fairly good track of the languages of visitors of our site. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then, as we continue to engage in this digital remote world, I think we’re all becoming much more comfortable with leveraging technology and social media to amplify our message as well. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? I think a lot of people are excited about trying that.

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