Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

It appears that not only are donors more primed for estate planning (which is the biggest challenge most planned giving officers face), they are also more attuned to their role in making the world better at this moment. You see a sample phone script for this call here. Step 3: Increase marketing, and do so thoughtfully.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If it’s helpful, consider drafting a short call script for your board members to refer to in their Thanksgiving messages to donors. In the script, be sure to mention the donor’s name, the amount they contributed, and maybe add one unique detail about their donation (time, place, etc.). After all, it’s the thought that counts.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. Elizabeth: Yes.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The volume of searches for “ infographic ” has already surpassed searches for “ email marketing ” and will very soon be equal to searches for “ direct mail ”. Infographics are meant to be data driven and the data should play the key role in the conceptualization of your infographic. Staggering. Just think about it for a minute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

What role does social media play in your overall communications plan? . You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. 7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. The growth of the web and mailing lists was explosive and I was very interested in remaining well informed. Q: When did you start publishing? How did you get started? Blogs can be a great journaling tool.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

They do the mailing. Maybe you send one email, and you don’t do any direct mail. Maybe you do like, you know, five emails and like four direct mail pieces. Just choose in the poll how many appeals mail and email you sent. You’re going to be scheduling your emails and your social and your mail drop.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

If you appoint yourself to the role of Major Gifts Officer—you would certainly not be the first nonprofit leader to do so— remind yourself that time spent focusing on major gifts is THE most productive time spent raising money. It should be someone with the time and willingness to focus on identifying and cultivating major donors.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Form a migration team: Form a dedicated migration team involving fundraising professionals and data management specialists with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. A good place to start would be looking at your email bounces and returned mailings to see if any email or physical addresses are out of date.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So they may be perfectly happy giving by direct mail, giving online. . ” It’s become more common to talk about this maybe in recent years, but, I think, for a lot of my fundraising career, especially when I was in a major gift specialist role at a larger shop, it’s a bit a taboo, right? I was so scared.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So they may be perfectly happy giving by direct mail, giving online. . ” It’s become more common to talk about this maybe in recent years, but, I think, for a lot of my fundraising career, especially when I was in a major gift specialist role at a larger shop, it’s a bit a taboo, right? I was so scared.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

And so I’ll do like a script with them. And so that’s great that you want to do a script, but then, once you have that script down, you have to throw it away and you have to really gauge how the conversation is going by the person that you’re speaking with. Have an agenda in your head but not written down.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

A comprehensive annual report can fill this role. They cut down on the number of reports they mailed directly (and made the report available online) but made sure to continue sending the paper version to some local lawyers. Follow a prepared script. This organization published a well-designed, well-written report.

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