Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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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. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these words: Your nonprofit’s logo is not your story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. Here’s where you can get stuck in focusing on your logo as representing your story: . Telling your whole story with your nonprofit’s logo is not necessary. It makes sense.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these six words: Your logo is not your story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. They want to use every tool, including their logo, to tell their story. Here’s where you can get stuck in focusing on your logo as representing your story: . Holding hands around a globe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing.

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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. Relate stories of the impact of legacy giving and provide illuminating data on the nonprofit’s mission and importance.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Once confirmed, welcome them with an email that tells your organization’s story and sets expectations on how often they’ll hear from you. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Newsletters. Thank you’s.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Once confirmed, welcome them with an email that tells your organization’s story and sets expectations on how often they’ll hear from you. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Newsletters. Thank you’s.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are bots that are self-training using AI language.

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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. They may tell you a story about a Development Director who was super nervous or a friend who asked for a big gift on the golf course. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Phone or In Person?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Focus on their impact and show that impact through stories. 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 should help highlight the impact of the project, and connect that impact to personal stories. How will their gift make a difference?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Pacific time , so there's still time to take these tips and apply them to your digital story! Distill the Message and Invite Supporters to Join the Story. Stories that make an impact are honest, connect emotionally, and open a dialogue with the viewer. Stories can have an impact even without the latest video tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

” He offered a simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build. He also talked about the Improviser Mindset VS Scripted Mindset of leaders. Scripted mindsets expect everything to be perfect in theory, on paper, and in the real world – and when it isn’t they don’t know how to lead.

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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. Marginalized populations can successfully advocate for their rights and work toward a more just society. And so much more.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They recruited some of their strongest supporters to act as “AuSM Champions” and run peer-to-peer fundraising pages, then invite all their friends to a livestream event full of cooking demonstrations, personal stories, and drawings. Colleen also made sure to create a robust template for her fundraisers with boilerplate language and images.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Instead of starting with the story, start with the data. 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. 4) Craft Your Story. Ensure you communicate the key elements of your story. Dig into the data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

If you're thinking about trying out TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge by making a 90 second video about your charitable work, uploading it to YouTube, and sending the link to us, you might find Adobe Story Free useful. Once inside the Adobe Story Free online application I found it easy to use. Adobe Story Free FAQ.

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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. 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. You need to tell better stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

While your organization accounts work to build an authentic community, share your story, and advance your brand strategy, playing the game as it was intended (person-to-person) can drive even more meaningful engagement with your cause. . Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? 5) Provide the necessary tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

At the beginning of your presentation, it’s wonderful to tell your own story that relates to the organization’s cause or mission. If you don’t have your own story — retell someone else’s. Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate. not a jet.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They can share their own personal story for why they’re involved in your organization, how their involvement has perhaps changed their life or their perspectives, and how we can really leverage their stories to help generate momentum and energy around the work that you’re doing. Why are we meeting the need? Why do you care?

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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.” TIP: Ask donors for their phone numbers on your response devices and donation pages, and use them!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

At the beginning of your presentation, it’s wonderful to tell your own story that relates to the organization’s cause or mission. If you don’t have your own story — retell someone else’s. Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation?

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : . Editor’s note : You can find a call script here for thanking a donor after they make a donation and another one for soliciting year-end gifts here. Does the thank you landing page contain donor-centric thank you language?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . They made sure that we got to hear stories from some of these folks, but they put a face on what our impact would be if we gave. “Understand our mission.”

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The language that we use is vitally important to our fundraising efforts. From your logo and campaign hashtag, to sample posts and scripts, to printable materials and essential language about your campaign, the toolkit distills all the insights you have as a fundraiser into one easy-to-find resource. So what is a toolkit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. Possible Working Titles: 1.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

It’s another thing entirely to show it (and let someone that isn’t on your payroll tell that story in their own words). Perhaps the people you serve have successes to share, or your volunteers want to talk about why they partner with your organization – testimonials let them tell your story in their own words. . Video testimonials.

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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. Tell a story. You’d be surprised how few fundraisers when they’re talking with donors tell really good stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

When they see nonprofit stories, when they see all of this information that you’re putting out there, it’s a suggestion on how they should feel about your organization, your clients, and the work that you do. So how do you tell your nonprofit story through a computer screen if you do not have a staple nonprofit story?

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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. The campaign ended with a call for users to share their activism stories , bringing traffic back to the ACLU site.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A good framework to follow, especially if you want to show the impact your nonprofit makes , goes something like this: Give an example of a success story by highlighting results. It’s easy to get bogged down in the story such that you detract away from the key points you want your article to focus on.

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