VisionLink

MARCH 7, 2014

Last year, 11,000 hospital and clinic patients received prescriptions for food and heat, along with scripts for their medicines. We know that it takes more to live a long and healthy life than just being blessed with healthy genetics. How does it work?

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

Do this by writing a bullet point script before, covering every point you want to make and add slides to match the main points. If we met in real life to go to a webinar, we wouldn’t sit in little coded cubicles parallel to each other, all watching the same speaker. We need that visual to concentrate and engage with what is being said.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2021

Since 1970, NRDC has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. We linked together key milestones to build a compelling story, using a traditional script format, giving the experience a cinematic and emotive quality. Designing an easy-to-use experience.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What is happening in your hero’s life? They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! Who would have thought a simple meal could change a family’s life? When you don’t ask, you basically deny people the opportunity to change someone’s life. Your donation of $7.32

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

To thrive in this world in flux, we need to radically reshape our relationship to uncertainty and flip the script to sustain a healthy and productive outlook,” explains April. Just knowing that -- you have a tool, a guidebook, a set of superpowers – for the rest of your life is itself comforting. Run Slower. See What’s invisible.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

As Drupal 8 prepares for its end-of-life this November 2021, with Drupal 7 following along in November 2022, migrating your organization’s existing Drupal website to Drupal 9 is definitely something to start digging into in more detail now. Drupal 9 continues to depend on jQuery though jQuery UI has reached its end of life.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2021

A selfie video from your office could offer people a peek behind the curtain at your organization, and can be a powerful tool for updates, announcements, or even day-in-the-life-of-a-staffer content. This could include interviews with patrons or testimonials, but the best option is often the simplest. Just be you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life? How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience?

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Chances are, being a team captain is one many “priorities” in someone’s life. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team. Include a sample script of what to say to team members. Providing Resources.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As Drupal 7 and 9 prepare for their end-of-life in November 2023, migrating your organization’s existing Drupal website to Drupal 10 is definitely something to start digging into in more detail now. We’ve put together this handy guide to preparing for Drupal 10. Before Drupal 8, each major version was its own independent codebase.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As Drupal 7 and 9 prepare for their end-of-life in November 2023, migrating your organization’s existing Drupal website to Drupal 10 is definitely something to start digging into in more detail now. We’ve put together this handy guide to preparing for Drupal 10. Before Drupal 8, each major version was its own independent codebase.

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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. Communicate to donors how adding a bequest to their will can lead to a life-altering legacy for the nonprofit.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A lot of the musical elements I include have tried to inform real-life elements. Instead of scripting anything, you spend a day with the organization and you see what you get. Grassroots movements have been doing it because they didn't have the resources to script. Sometimes it works the other way around.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

try flipping the script and asking: “How do I optimize?” You may find out you are unnecessarily putting time into tasks and activities that are not important to the key people in your life, while missing out on what is important. Try this simple trick to build a brilliant career: Forget about achieving “balance!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

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. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Scripts are written, reviewed, recorded, edited, and published by the community, for the community! Being welcomed into the contributor community as a non-developer was a life changing moment, and she has been hooked ever since. Cori joined Salesforce.org in 2018 focused on building the Open Source Commons program.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

One of our favorite posts is about data hygiene (which can easily be a snooze to read about), but they take on the subject by creating a script for an old-school PSA. Now a fundraising and communications strategist based in Vancouver, her past life was in the trenches working as a development officer for several nonprofits.

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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. Assume in your tone and language your donor simply has forgotten or has just not got around to it due to the busyness of daily life. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Make sure to go through a quick training and provide a script that folks can use when they reach a donor’s voicemail. You’re building a life-long relationship with these donors. Hold a phone bank with your whole staff. Gather staffers from across your nonprofit and ask them to spend a night reaching out to these mid-level donors.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 3, 2017

Thankfully, WordPress is a very “lightweight” script and is nicely compatible with nearly all the top hosting companies out there, and most of them offer very convenient one-click installation processes for WordPress users. There’s a saying that the best things in life are free. Free WordPress Hosting.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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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. What are you most proud of in your life?”. This is another great question that invites the donor to share about something wonderful they’ve achieved in their life.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

For example, “ Your gift is the difference between life and death for the children of Haiti.” Create a brief script for everyone to follow, then give everyone a few names to call. ” Don’t exaggerate your organization’s work or the donor’s role. November is a great month for this but it can work any time of year.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Heyning spoke of the process she undertakes to run events, which rely on detailed scripts and content carefully curated on the team’s internal wiki.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Try writing a script with a two-column approach. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. We tend to block out these everyday noises in our normal life, but you will be surprised how loud and obvious they can be on film. STEP THREE. Assemble the right equipment. Is there traffic?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

WorldofLifeFellowship found Microsoft Office Life Small Business to be a good option, but because of its limitation with server-side scripting, Dreamhost was a better fit. Many members report using this service and recommending it.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Lives change, people move, workers find new jobs, new interests emerge, families form, kids go to college … all sorts of life events that nonprofits (hopefully) record as part of our donor profiles require that we manage our donor data aggressively. Then there’s the obvious problem of the donors themselves. What about cleaning?

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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. In real life? Break it up, or use bold or other formatting to guide the reader.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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: . I knew a woman who was a former ballet dancer, and, once you got to know her, you realized dance was a huge part of her life and her identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

This was an award-winning filmmaker, who had spent years of her life, thousands of her own dollars, and probably a relationship or two to bring her poignant, hybrid, social issue documentary to the light of day (or in her case, a night on PBS following a limited theatrical release). This was no traditional case of post-partum blues.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Webinars can greatly benefit from developing a “run of show” which in radio is a script designed to outline the order and amount of timing for items to be discussed within a program. Presentations for Webinars. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

A simple script might sound like this: “ Hey, I heard from our Executive Director that our program would not be successful were it not for you, and I wanted to say thank you.” Give a volunteer the night off from making dinner, and you just may have a volunteer for life! You have probably asked them to call donors.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2018

At a VIP night for our Heart & Vascular Institute, our CEO scrapped his script about awards and technology. He concluded by saying, “If my dad was alive today, the care we offer at Riverside would have saved his life. Instead, he shared the memory of his dad passing from a heart attack.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Create scripts and make the asks. Sheryl is a native of Pittsburgh arriving in Phoenix 12 years ago to work with the Relay For Life event in the then Desert Southwest Division of the American Cancer Society. A resident of Gilbert, Sheryl is an avid cyclist having founded the women's cycling community organization Girls Gone Riding.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Instead, provide them with information about your nonprofit, instructions on how to make an effective ask, or even write up a script they can follow to communicate with their networks and raise funds on behalf of your nonprofit. Your goal should be making life easier for those who are supporting your peer-to-peer event.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Raise awareness of critical, life-saving COVID-19 measures. Virtual solutions. Improve first line of defense safety net programs to protect people during COVID-19. food prep, packing, distribution).

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