Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Sounds great, right? 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: . Use your fundraising ambassadors as a sounding board for messaging you are considering. And how do you get them busy, working on your behalf?

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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.

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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.

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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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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 sounds like a trick question, but it speaks to the likelihood that we as fundraisers tend to focus too much on the money and forget to notice other ways the donor might help. Phone or In Person?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Does that sound good? If that sounds like you, put “me” in the chat. So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. So I want you to tell me which one of these sounds most like you, related to getting 10k gifts. No judgment.

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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.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sound familiar? 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? If you sound stressed, others will follow suit. We discovered that approximately 65% of nonprofits surveyed didn’t have one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. It’s not your script. Well, that depends.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. While this may sound overwhelming, don’t let it discourage you. While it may sound like the logical thing to do, it will cause issues with search engines. As a result, your content will sound more natural to readers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. It’s not your script. Well, that depends.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Flip the script from “ Look what you made me do ” to “Look what you did.” They also tailored the language of the body text to focus on supporters versus the organization itself: “You blocked the Muslim ban. Big Cartel’s 2015 Year-in-Review Email Focus on their accomplishments, not yours Don’t be like Taylor Swift.

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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 I know that sounds expensive. But you really want to script it, you just don’t want to have some.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. What’s your body language? And so I’ll do like a script with them. And that is how you get the results of them buying into your organization, buying into your message, wanting to donate.

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