Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. Here are some of the reasons nonprofit organizations pass up the opportunity to share about their work with fundraising videos: “We don’t have the time or expertise to create, edit, and share videos.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

See how that works? Look, fundraising is about connecting people who care with work that matters to them. They might do the work themselves if they had time, but they don’t, so, they give money to you because that’s a good way for them to get the work done. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work.

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Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

In layman’s terms it’s an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file designed to store and transport data that lists the URLs (Universal Resource Locators) for a particular site and allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL, such as when it was last updated, how often in changes and its relationship to other URLs within the site.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

It never really worked, though. 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. Or, not only that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Like going to hackathons and wish you could get paid to work on a good cause full time? Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. If hired, ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

If they are a friend or family member of someone who works with your organization, your research can begin with that person. Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Donation Request Script for Recurring Donors. While you can hope for a resounding “Yes!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Fundraising expert Steve MacLaughlin says developing a multichannel strategy is like baking a delicious dessert: It’s the combination of every “ingredient” that makes a campaign work — just like your grandma’s apple pie recipe. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Thank you’s.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Fundraising expert Steve MacLaughlin says developing a multichannel strategy is like baking a delicious dessert: It’s the combination of every “ingredient” that makes a campaign work — just like your grandma’s apple pie recipe. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Thank you’s.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent). There is a long history of questioning how to address inefficient processes in the charitable sector, including grant application and reporting processes that siphon precious time away from nonprofits doing important work. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here.

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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

JUNE 4, 2023

Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. It also reduces the potential for error and duplication of work. They work with marketing, executive leadership, volunteers, accounting, donors, prospects, community leaders, and the board.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The post offers some recommendations to nonprofits and activists about how to avoid having bots (evil bots) disrupt their activism and creative ways they should be thinking about deploying automation in service of social justice, especially if the nature of their work might make them likely targets.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my experience working with nonprofit clients, I’ve learned how much people want to be able to have one icon or image that shows the whole who, what, why all at once. It truly doesn’t need to do all the work! You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. It makes sense.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Recently purchased by Google, Word Lens is free in a handful of languages for a limited time so stop reading this for a second and download it now! If you are traveling internationally this summer (either for a work conference or for vacation!) or work with overseas constituents, volunteers, or staff, Word Lens is a handy tool.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my experience working with nonprofit clients, I’ve learned how much people want to be able to have one icon or image that shows the whole who, what, why all at once. It truly doesn’t need to do all the work! You also have colors, fonts, language and photography to help people understand what you do. It makes sense.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You probably have potential fundraising ambassadors who are already engaged in your work. And how do you get them busy, working on your behalf? Talk to them about ways to frame the organization’s work, especially if the work you do can be sensitive and complicated. Yes, it can seem like extra work.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

So in this case, the conflict would be that this family is very poor and both parents have to work very early in the morning. Amit and Priya both leave for work very early in the morning, so Fatima is on her own to get ready for school. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school.

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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.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Creating messages that are geared toward them can vary greatly in language, graphics, images, and all other elements. Basic information and compelling images and graphics work well for this group. Messages could have a bigger impact if they are scripted to address their preferred type of commitment. Engagement Level.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Since then, we’ve been hard at work bringing together the wide range of tech, tools, and services we all offer, including case management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising and engagement, as well as some functionality from our friends at Mobilize. Here’s a look! Engage your community.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Otherwise, it’s just a fun meeting.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. One of those conferences would be the Personal Democracy Forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” ” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Truly any project that is specific and requires a significant amount of money to pull off could work as a capital campaign project. Get some estimates to see what the work would likely cost. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Password hackers are using some new tactics to break into your online accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

David Havens from Collective Capital , a company that works with business in the area of innovation through improvisation and design thinking. David comes to this work from a background in the education and educational technology field and he’s on fire! We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Cicero is what’s known as a “ REST API ,” also sometimes called a “web service” Cicero and other REST APIs work over the Internet, using the same types of URLs and HTTP requests that your web browser does when you’re navigating web pages.

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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. Here’s how they tweaked a classic to make it work for them: They used their resources. In this case, that was the park itself.

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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. Below, we show one objective example.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Over the past several months I've had the pleasure of working with Convio's Engineering team on a number of new features for Luminate Online. If you haven't ever written one, the same origin policy essentially says that client-side languages such as JavaScript are allowed to make requests only within the same domain. And proud of it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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