Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.

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Teach Change Exercise Social 50

Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

People are watching our hand movements and our body language. Do this by writing a bullet point script before, covering every point you want to make and add slides to match the main points. But virtual events are harder to dip in and out of, and should really stick to the script. Best of luck! Want more tips like this?

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Video Tips Slides Script 98

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. Interest or experience with unicode, unusual character encodings, and handling non-latin character sets.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

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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Guidelines Audience Language Content 90

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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Action Strategy Donor Calendar 137

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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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 teach people how to relate to you. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. foreign language 00:48:50]. Yep, Sam, I see you.

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